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Dumping the domains and host, remove all the offending "black hat" stuff the easiest approach - however, the branding loss would be even more catastrophic than the loss of Google traffic.
That being said - and needing to keep things as they are (negative the tactics that cause this in the first place) what are the changes of recovery (knowing that alot of begging will be needed) :)
It's not worth the effort if recovery is "distance future" since services fees will be incurred immediately and ongoing.
Never ventured across the edge - so this is completely new to me.
If the name is that important to them, I would try to make it work. Clean the site, email Google and pray. ;)
Throw away the domains, and start anew
My first thought as well... however, as stated before not an option, they continue to make good revenue from off-line marketing, catalogs, brochures, etc. where the expense of such material was considerable.
Re-direction to a new domain/host is not really an option either, as the relationship between old and new sites (and content) would be easily recognized thus for me in this contract "recovery as is" is the only option... thus the banned removal is needed.
Anyone with any experience here as to pending duration greatly appreciated.
BTW... this isn't a case of being penalized - all 150 sites were banned.
Although they themselves were foolish - they did act quickly and immediately went to Google premiums ads - but even these are short lived. Thus being "unbanned" is a necessity.
BTW... this isn't a case of being penalized - all 150 sites were banned.
How many out of these are tied into the current offline branding effort?
Was in a similar situation about a year ago. Turnaround time was about 6 months for that situation.
I don't believe there's a death penalty.
In the meantime couldn't you optimize a site with that .com in the content to pick up on the loss of remarketing your offline efforts? (linking to the banned .com)
You obviously can keep the same template and images and just write new content. It might not be easy for some 500,000 page monster site but IMO is your best bet.
This way you get the best of both worlds - current offline promotions are unaffected, and you have a fresh Google start.
It seems to me your best option would be to keep the current banned domain up for your offline promotions. To attract search engines create a second domain and put in the work to create new content for that site.
Linkage would then be needed, and as I understand - Google maintains an active profile of banned sites, moving to a new domain (or host)with linkage to the old would push the ban to the new (or a penalty at least.
Am I wrong here?
Fathom, I don't know the structure or content of your site, but I meant create another completely independant site with new (or heavily reworded) content for the search engines.
Linking the new domain to the banned domain would obviously be counter-productive.
Linkage would then be needed, and as I understand - Google maintains an active profile of banned sites, moving to a new domain (or host)with linkage to the old would push the ban to the new (or a penalty at least.
Isn't there some way that you could hide the links from the new site to the old site? For example, could you link to a page that you don't allow the robots to index and have it setup to automatic redirect to the old site?
<edit> Forgot to add that this is only effective with JS enabled browsers</edit>
(and no, the main site was the only brand for off-line) they heard (or had) someone that developed over 100 near identical sites to artifically develop link pop because they heard/were told they could get unbelieveable visitation through and I quote:
"our unprecedented trade secrets".
Unfortunately the main - original got the boot as well hidden text/links in all).
Thanks guys - I'll charge them an enormous fee for their stupidity...
...and send you a consultant fee for the help. :)
