Diagnosing a ban in Google

[passionfruit]

Hi,

I had a twitter based Tweet aggregator about a specific topic that was up for a month, doing quite well.

Yesterday I put a friend's adsense code on it as experimentation, and today it is out of the results. Appears to have been banned.

Its still showing up as fine in Google Webmaster Tools, but its totally out of the Google index. Even the site: command shows absolutely nothing.

Page Rank Bar is showing White, not Grey.

Now Tweets may be seen as duplicte content by Google, however other such sites are doing just fine.

I've submitted a reinclusion request.

[edited by: tedster at 6:01 pm (utc) on May 19, 2009]
[edit reason] removed specific site mentions [/edit]

[tedster]

The toolbar data can lag well behind the actual search results - and so can Webmaster Tools. If the site: operator shows nothing from the domain in the current index, then that's the way it is. Most often that situation does indicate a ban, and much more rarely it is caused by a bug in Google's data.