MIA from google.co.uk

[wheelie34]

My main site has totaly vanished from G.co.uk, zero results found for the site: command. I've read the November SERP's thread and it doesn't sound the same as my issue.

I usualy use WMT to check what phrases feature where in the SERP's, for my major phrase I am in #8 have bounced between 4 and 9 over the last few years, its a 12 year old .com on a UK IP targeting the UK and hasn't had any major changes for months.

Today I was doing the routine searches and for web I was nowhere so I tried UK only, nowhere, checked WMT no errors, did site: zero.

After a few checks, if I go to G.com site: shows 1500+ results, which is correct'ish G.co.za shows all pages, .de same all pages, au.com same all pages but my main provider .co.uk has no pages whatsoever.

The cache dates on all other countries are all within 2 or 3 days of the end of October, I have a dynamic weather page that gets checked probably 3 - 5 times a day by G and in the above test it had 13 hours ago after the file size.

I am not panicing yet but am concerned, any ideas whats up with the UK G, am I alone?

[nippi]

this may or may not be related, but seems there is evidence of an udpate this week which penalises regional domains on gogole.com, and rewards them on regional google.

great if your regional site, has a regional domain. not if it doesn;t
great if your international site is a .com. not great if it isn't

[wheelie34]

Found the issue, for some reason when 'strict' filtering is enabled the site disappears or is excluded, the site has zero adult content no bad language it's 100% family safe, travel orientated.

How do I tell google this?

[tedster]

The strict filter sometimes kicks in because of off-site factors, such as a site's external links or other indicators that similar sites have some adult content. Sometimes words that have both a common and an adult usage will cause filtering, too.

To reach Google directly, you can bring your specific issue up on Google Groups or in a reconsideration request. However it is tough to get your classification changed.