How to Determine if your Site is Banned in Google

Reader question: I think my site has been banned in google. It used to have all of these top positions for the past three years, and it suddenly disappeared. Can you help? Answer: In http://www.google.com/intl/en/addurl.html. I generally submit the home page and site map (as a back-up). Google should be able to crawl your entire site from your home page. You don't have to resubmit your site to be included in the Google index if Google were able to find high-quality links to your site. People just like the security of being able to submit. After resubmission, review your log files and Web analytics reports. You should see more Google activity once technical issues are fixed. However, if you see little or no Google activity, then it is a very strong indication that your site has been banned. Step 6: Review spam penalty checklist. To review, your site has probably been banned in Google if you see the following: Log files/Web analytics reports indicate that Google is no longer crawling your site. Index count is zero. Link count is zero. No technical issues exist that prevent Google from crawling your site. Step 7: Review Google guidelines, terms, and conditions. If Google has penalized your site, you will have to change everything that violates their terms and conditions. You can review their Webmaster Guidelines at http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/. All too often, unsuspecting Web site owners have hired a search engine marketing firm that spams the search engines. With Google, it is common to find free-for-all link farms, doorway pages and domains, and cloaking. In order to get your site unbanned, you will have to find the exact issue (or issues) that violates Google's terms and conditions. You will have to send this information in an email to Google when you ask to be let back into their index. Step 8: Email Google, resubmit, and monitor. For the sake of this article, let's assume that the spam problem is a doorway domain that gets link popularity through a link farm. When you send an email to Google at Disabling Google and Other Search Engines from Crawling a Site URL Structure and Search Engine Optimization Shari Thurow Answers SEO Questions: Click Here For Free Answers