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Two of my sites (in my profile) were banned by Google in the June update, and I have not understood why until recently (at least, I'm guessing, because I cannot see any other reasons...)
About 4-5 months ago I ran a couple of WPG missions against google for this site and one other. I am new at this, and was trying to promote these sites for a couple of friends businesses and both got banned at the same time :(
I have since learned not to use WPG in this mannor, and refrained from doing so since about Feb this year, but the ban started in June and is still there!
Is there anything I can do to get the sites listed again? Please help. I don't know what to do, and now my friends are losing work because of me!
It seems from past posts that grey is not the bad one, if that is the case then things are not as bad as they seem.
Do you also tell your clients not to use automated systems to check rank and make them understand that they should not submit to these
Reach 1000+ search engines....
Make sure they go through you if they have an idea, explain the possible panalties to them and how important it can be. Tell em this is just a taster.
I'm not sure what you mean by this - could you explain a bit more please :)
About 2 years ago I did join a link generating program (Link2Link), but I stopped being a member in 2000! Sadly, some of the pages on other sites are still in the Google index which point to the InsideOut site: EG:
Snipped, no URL's please Red
Strangely, each of these has a PR of 4 ????????
[edited by: NFFC at 11:15 am (utc) on Aug. 13, 2002]
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This looks to be pulling info from somwhere else, i did not look to hard. It is offering me the option to buy stuf totaly unrelated to the content.
HTH
Cheers
This ad in the bottom left corner has got to be the culprit.
It's also written to the page by javascript as far as I can see so the 'bots shouldn't be able to even see it.
It might be time to add the Meta description and more Meta keywords. That will help with some of the other SE's.
1. <title>Sorry, the page you are looking for has been moved or removed!</title> - You need to change this.
2. <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> - Here is your
problem. You are telling all crawlers not to index or follow any links on your site, therefore you will not be included in Google.
So, in all liklihood you haven't been banned... the problem is something you can control. Relax, fix the problems, take a closer
look at the rest of your HTML and wait until the next update.
Regards,
Gabriel
3 ATW - 3 AV - 0 AOL - 2 HotBot - 4 MSN
gcn, welcome to Webmaster World. The URL you were looking at is incorrect. I believe Red5 copied the URL incorrectly. There are two of them in the string, its the one at the end that you should be viewing.
Red5, you need to get a few more quality inbound links. An ODP listing is mandatory also. This applies to the second URL in your profile.
[edited by: pageoneresults at 10:45 pm (utc) on Aug. 14, 2002]
It also appears that you may be involved in a few link farms. Or at least directories that have been PR0'd. If you are linking back to those PR0 properties, that may be another possible reason. Your first site shows a gray toolbar. When performing a search on the domain, there is only one bulleted item in the returned page, there are normally 4 of them. The one that is there is for a "contain the term" search. Wierd...
I have picked up on some good points on this thread too...
:)
To continue the DMOZ thought, would it be as good to have one of your interior pages listed in DMOZ but not your main index page?
In my case, my tutorials page has been included but the editor of the section I originally applied to has not be an active editor since early in the year and from what I understand, no updates have been made. What's your take on the effect on page rank?
Thanks again!
Gabriel
It depends on which category you are submitting to. If your home page is specific to the general category you are applying to, that is what will get listed, you have no choice.
Now, if you have other sections of your site that are topic specific and you can get listed in additional categories, then the URL you submit will most likely be reflected in the dmoz listing, the Editor will make that determination based on the information in your submission.
Your dmoz and Yahoo! listings are two of the most important inbound links to have. A dmoz listing has a dramatic impact on your Google listings. But, only if you submit to the proper category and you take the time to write your title and description according to dmoz guidelines.
Then, hope that the Editor does not modify it too drastically and keeps your main keyword phrase either in the title or description. Keywords in the category URL's are also important! ;)
This ad in the bottom left corner has got to be the culprit.
I cannot see how you would reach that conclusion. Hitbox has no connection to SEO, and it's even a real reciprocal link. (Hitbox adds link to hitbox.com, which redirects to the advertiser, but Hitbox links back to the user sites through yep.com.) Google has no real reason to go after sites for that code. It's just not the kind of thing they're watching out for, unless they've declared a War on Javascript.
1. <title>Sorry, the page you are looking for has been moved or removed!</title> - You need to change this.
If you're talking about the error pages for his domains, you're off base. The text message of a 404 page doesn't matter as long as the HTTP status code is 404. Which it is for both domains.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> - Here is your
problem.
Now there, you've got something.
No, thats also coming from his custom 404. The link in his profile is not correct, hence the custom 404 page when you visit. If you break the 2 URL's out of the string, you'll see that the sites return proper <head> sections without the 404 title and the meta robots tag. Someone was covering all their bases with the 404 and made sure that the spiders did not index the 404 page itself.
You can see that going to our site provides you with our index page, not a 404 error.
The owners of the main domain were taken over, and at that time a meta refresh tag was placed on their index page which redirects to their new domain.
It has been suggested that this is the cause of our problems, as the main domain now has PR0 and this has filtered down to us! We are now having to purchase a propper domain name and relocate the site!
