It’s nothing new – since time immemorial, Google has been hitting websites that used to be doing well in earning organic search traffic with its now-no-more-traffic-love whip.
What could be the reason behind this Google action? Google folks will usually say that you violated its policies and others would mention many other reasons why all of a sudden your site does not get any decent traffic from Google such as PageRank-passing link selling or the selling of links on your page without using the no-follow attribute, the use of duplicate content or putting same exact texts on different websites, robots.txt, meta-tags, etc.
How do you get a site re-indexed? Google can only recommend that you submit a reinclusion request after you’ve complied to all its rules if your site’s diagnosed to have violated any policy. However, this step does not seem to work well.
Because if it does, gazillions of owners of sites that have become de-listed won’t complain how in the world they’re still not getting same amount traffic before Google de-indexed their websites when they have already done everything that Google told them to do.
Oh and if the reinclusion request works so well, College Startup’s owner/s won’t offer a $10,000 bounty to anyone who can get one of his sites re-indexed.
So are you up for the challenge?
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My site was deindexed last year because it was hacked and when I complained on my blog an employee of Google contacted me and helped me get it back in within a few days.
I guess it matters if you are truly to blame or if you got removed through no intentional fault of yours.
The duplicate content reason is debatable. I watched a recent video of Adam Lasnik from Google addressing the right way to deal with duplicate content and believe, it is not the big deal the people are making about. – Javier.
I’ll give Ryan the benefit of the doubt. He’s most likely still paying the price for David K’s shenanigans. If you look at the source code of Celebrity Cowboy you’ll figure it out. Same crap K pulled at a few other sites… trying to get over and Goog’s isn’t about to buy it and good for them.
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Deindexed. In my experience it can be a difficult to ever figure out what really happened. About the end of 2006 I had a beautiful, info only site, that was making me a decent chunk of change on Adsense revenues. Lo and behold, it was apparently deindexed, fell completely out of site and I finally stopped paying to host it.
How can I find out why my site was de-indexed?
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