Google also says..

Some more good news from Google

[GoogleGuy]

I wanted to do a quick post and let people know that another set of penalized websites are about to re-enter our index. The last times I mentioned something like this, it was for clients of a particular SEO or company who went way past our guidelines:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

This time, it's mostly independent websites that were outside our quality guidelines, but that corrected whatever it was (hidden text, hidden links, etc.) and asked to be re-included. Many sites will return to our index within 24 hours. A few sites that used to be way past our guidelines will have to wait for a complete crawl/index cycle before they return completely.

I've said it before, but ultimately each webmaster is responsible for what happens on their own pages. Don't let someone else convince you to put hidden links, hidden links, or other tricks on your domains unless you know what problems it can cause. If you think your site may have penalties for violating our guidelines at one time, but the site has now corrected any problems, you can send an email to [e-mail] with the subject line "reinclusion request". Wait to email us until you're sure your site complies with our quality guidelines at
[google.com...]

One of my resolutions for this year is to continue to communicate and to increase communication with webmasters when they've run into problems. The process we're putting into place for these reinclusion requests should help make that easier for webmasters who have made mistakes.

Hope this little GoogleGram helps,
GoogleGuy (topping 900 posts! Woohoo!)

[Bradley]

Hey GoogleGuy

Hope you spot/read this post. I was on google.com and reading information about robots.txt files on this specific page: [google.com...]

Under "Technical Guidelines" the link for [robotstxt.org...] is broken. Thought I'd share so it could get fixed.

Bradley

[cheater copperpot]

that link works for me.. they must be really quick!

[rfgdxm1]

quotations, at the moment the ODP has recent RDF dumps. Yes, we have had problems with this, but no longer.

[Bradley]

Well, you are correct, and I am correct. In the post above, I copied the url address on the page....If you notice it ends with a " .html " The actual coded href link points to a " .htm " file. So, when you actually click on the link - its leads to the .htm file which is not there.

EDIT: What I'm trying to say is go here: [google.com...] and then click on the link to spot the problem.

[fathom]

yup should be dot.html

[robotstxt.org...]

Good note Bradley -- we're all only human! :)

[edited by: fathom at 4:32 am (utc) on Mar. 6, 2003]

[PFOnline]

Ahh, i see it! Google DOES have a broken link on that page.

[fathom]

Obviously the most anticipated update in the history of Google watching. The last week has seen over 10,000 message posted in our Google forum about the impending monthly update. For the first time we can remember, Google gives a bit of heads up about the impending update.

That's excellent copy GG. (mainpage)

I love that last line which suggests this is now the routine! LOL :)

[MetropolisRobot]

Guess i'm unhappy about the DMOZ update being carried into Google this update. It seems that my opponents have cornered the Editor spots which means I cannot get my listings in there.....

DMOZ is great, if you can get listed.

Someone needs to change the DMOZ editor rule (IMHO)

[quotations]

>rfgdxm1
>quotations, at the moment the ODP has recent RDF dumps.
>Yes, we have had problems with this, but no longer.

I understand that but the first "real" ODP update which worked completely since September was dated in mid February. (I saw 19-Feb-2003 but some say there was one a week earlier.)

That seems quite late in the Google crawl, calculate, and update cycle (to me.) I'm glad to hear that they were able to incorporate one of these newer ODP dumps. Radical structure changes have been made since September.

[ProfMoriarty]

Hello GoogleGuy,

you do a great job in CRM :-)

[starbean]

My site was banned on Jan 8, 2003 and I'm one of those webmaster who rushed to get a new domain name and a new hosting 'cause I thought that it was hopeless for my first site.

I've submitted my new DN to google and requested many sites to direct their inbound links to my new site, including the links in yahoo's open directory.

Before dissalowing googlebot from crawling either of my sites I wanted to see which site would get the highest ranking and then dissalow googlebot from the lower ranking site.

After having read googleguy's good news, I checked the status of my banned site and it is ranked a level 5 again!

The new domain name is not listed at the moment but I'm afraid it could be listed tomorrow.

My worst nightmare would be to see BOTH sites come up in serps and have someone rat on me and then have google ban BOTH my sites.

I MUST avoid this nightmare. But it may be too late to dissalow googlebot from the new domain name.

I feel as if I'm between a rock and a hard place...or in quick sand. Any suggestion?

BTW, what is the command in robots.txt to only ban googlebot?

[canuck]

The basic robots.txt format is (upload into main directory):

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This will disallow ALL SPIDERS from indexing any of the domain (however, if you have multiple subdomains you will need to create a robots.txt for each subdomain).

If you wish to just disallow GoogleBot, and let the other spiders have access then you simply change the user agent to:

User-agent: GoogleBot
Disallow: /

*** For more information on how to "Remove Content from Google's Index" simply do a search on Google for: google remove

Follow their directions carefully... note from what I have read of this webpage you will have to first put your robots.txt in your root directory stating the information to ignore, then wait for your site to be listed, then follow the directions to remove it.

Hope that helps...

- canuck

[fathom]

Great post Canuck!

Quick too ;)

[johnraphone]

from [google.com...] ...

"...Check for broken links..."

I love the fact that they have a broken link on the same page!

[Thomas]

It is just wonderful to hear GoogleGuy utilize those most important words and phrases such as:

"communicate" and "increase communication"

Peace Out
Google Guy