Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I change a little bit on wording on as many pages as possible each day to show that the site is not sitting stagnant. I also resubmit the Google sitemap everyday.
I meant when I established a sitemap... i never had a sitemap with google, but when i added one (i used one of the programs google recommends to create it), the pages just magically reappeared. they're still there, btw, about 10 days after.
site:myuniquedomain.com
.....index page shows 1st
myuniquedomain
"myuniquedomain"
"myuniquedomain.com"
......now show as first entry. For those still afflicted do not give up hope. I think joining sitemaps and sending off a reinclusion request is what ulimately pulled off the blanket. It took about 2 -3 weeks after sending off request before I saw a recovery. Total time out was exactly 3 months. Not sure if that 3 month figure is significant? Bad website you get a 3 month time out?......or if it just a coincidence.
As for my site, I have tried the re-inclusion about 5 weeks ago with no response or results. However I have set my site up with a site index and put it in to google sitemaps. Since then my site has been getting crawled by google at a normal pace. (prior to the sitemap upload and following the kiss of death on april 26th I was getting about 1 to 2 google crawl hits a day only). Since then in the past two weeks my site first had about 500 pages in the index. My site actually has abour 2000 in reality. Then last week my page total jumped to 1000, then currently at around 10,000! Also, no pages are supplemental according to the site:www.site.com command.
However, my keyword placements are still on the page 3,4 and 5 penalty where I should rank on page one in the top 5 positions in my niche.
My site is also from around 2003 and varies from a rank 5 to rank 6.
Hopefully I can post that I have recovered along with the fortunate few soon..
JimLahey & Konrad,How old are your sites? ~ How many inbounds do you have?
about 18 months old, G says I have 51 links, msn reports 1261 links.
My site actually has abour 2000 in reality. Then last week my page total jumped to 1000, then currently at around 10,000! Also, no pages are supplemental according to the site:www.site.com command.
In my case site:domain results used to jump up and down during the last 3 months, there was/is no logic in it. Now it's actually lower (about 500) than yesterday (about 1900). And the supplementals start at about 200 - no change in this case. And GBot visits my pages exactly as in the past (again, no changes here).
So if I undestand this correctly, your site has not recovered from the supp. problem. What's your PR?
So if I undestand this correctly, your site has not recovered from the supp. problem. What's your PR?
My website's PR is 5.
I was never worried about "supplemental" problem. Maybe only as a symptom/reason (but that's just a theory) of this:
[webmasterworld.com...]
as I call it: semi-penalty, for an unknown reason. (My website was on page 4 or 5 even when searching for my own domain name).
Now it looks like this and the "supplemental" problems are completely separate issues.
What would be interesting to know from any of those people who had a 'resurrection' is did they notice a site count lift beforehand? Or am I grasping at reeds here?
Since we're a consumer-review-site it is essential for sales that the companies that are reviewed find them-selves on our site via google.
Let's hope that google finally has got it's act together.