Why did Google Remove my site from their index?

[jitterbug978]

I've got two sites, one is for affiliate sales and is about 7 pages.. the other is an informative site that I've been using to make money with adsense. It had 10 pages and growing about 3 pages per day. Both of these sites had done well for a few days then Google removed them from their index.

I didn't do any excessive backlink building and I didn't use any BlueFart SEO techniques. All I did was have about 3 backlinks each and I was focusing on Content. On the Adsense website I had started using PLR articles but I had mostly rewritten them. Im not sure if that makes a difference.

I'm not sandboxed because I cant even find myself using the site: command. I'mnot sure what to do. I've tried resubmitting my site to google and pinging it etc.

Advice and tips, are greatly appreciated. I'd really like to know whats going on... Please help!

[MakeMoneyTutor]

If your website has copied content then it would get out from Google but mostly people don't copy other. Hence, the second reason to get out from Google may be you changed your hosting due to that you can go out from index as the IP of the server changes. If this also not done then you got a penalty from Google to give excessive links to your Home Page this is only the reason to get out from Google.

[paulgl]

Actually there are probably an infinite number of reasons to get out
of google. But copied content can't be one of them. Or if it is, it
must the very rarest reason. If it were, then sites like ezine articles
would get very little traffic. And people would not use their
articles, and people would not get backlinks. But the reverse must
be true. Or else the whole concept would collapse.
And websites are sold all the time. Quite a big business.
I can't imagine changing hosts has anything to do with it.
In fact, I encourage people to switch hosts if theirs sucks.

Google does things that people just don't understand. People
need to realize that what works today, may not work tomorrow.

You don't have to get all your traffic from google.

Way too many people lose sleep over dropping in google.
Just keep plugging away, doing the right things.

Paul

[jitterbug978]

I just dont understand why google would ban my site form their index... I know duplicate content is a very rare reason and most people make it out to be more than it really is. I also don't understand why google would index my site then days later remove it. Whatever. The world hasnt ended, I suppose I'm going to continue adding content and hopefully get re-indexed by google.

If anyone has any ideas why this happened to 2 of my sites but not the other 5 I'd be happy to hear why. Thanks a lot guys. Comments are greatly appreciated.

[MeCanX]

You know a lot of times we call it the Google Dance...One day there and one day not there...nothing you can really do except keep practicing good website building techniques...

One question I have is did you cloak your links?

I know that with affiliate sites a lot of people make the mistake on not cloaking links and Google (even though they are a huge affiliate company) doesn't like that at all.

I used dup content all the time and my sites still rank number one or on the front page. So it's all a matter of just sticking with it and not focusing on what Google does...but what you do with this...

As long as you aren't practicing BlueFart stuff you should be fine in coming back to light.

Also, one other thing is a lot of times with new sites a (what we call) new site robot will come along and toss the new sites on the front page...then the old robot comes back by and takes it off...

Maybe just a theory on this...but it seems to be a common occurrence with a lot of my sites when I first start them up...then poof...on the front page again...

[jitterbug978]

No I didn't cloak my links but I just did!

I used this site to help me generate code Affiliate Link Cloaker Hide Links

I also added a no follow tag to my affiliate links. Is that good enough to trick google?

*Edit*

I've never been worried about duplicate content on my sites. Now I dont go out and copy competitive sites, but I don't rewrite all of a PLR article. Or sometimes get lazy and post the PLR article as is. Is this bad practice? I mean its lazy but it seems to work okay.

[jitterbug978]

Well google still wont include these sites in their index

I'll never understand Google.

[Jimerson Farveez]

May be google had givne penatly to your sites due to content issue. Are you sure the content are fresh and unique? If the content are not fresh, update content.
Then, get 20-25 backlinks from the pages where google visits very often (specially PR pages), then you will get indexed....

[Pat Jackson]

I have 8 sites that are only a few weeks old which I've just discovered have zero indexed pages in Google total after they have had every page of every site indexed prior to today.

I wouldn't stress, if your site is new like mine are, they'll come back soon. I normally like it when Google does this as more often than not it's an indication that my sites are going to come back ranking higher than they initially did.

Don't worry about it, just keep building links and going through your promotion and it'll be back.

[Fondybadger]

is your site a new one?
maybe related to the age-delay i guess

[audreyly]

I have a site (about a year old) which was doing very well in adsense and suddenly it was deindexed by Google. The content is unique, great informative site, with only white hat links. I have no idea what happen and it took me months to find out that a spammer used my domain to send spam to others. Thousands of emails a day. My host cannot do anything to help.

I have since changed host and submitted a reinclusion request to Google. It has been a month already and no news yet.

Just sharing my experience. This can happen to any domain.

[dburk]

Hi jitterbug978,

If your site was de-indexed you will be able to find out why by adding and verifying your site at Google's Webmaster Tools.

Why wonder when you could know?

[Jenie0109]

while reading your story jitterbug...the first thing that pops on my mind is content duplication...check it out if you have one

[Pat Jackson]

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

I have 8 sites that are only a few weeks old which I've just discovered have zero indexed pages in Google total after they have had every page of every site indexed prior to today.

I wouldn't stress, if your site is new like mine are, they'll come back soon. I normally like it when Google does this as more often than not it's an indication that my sites are going to come back ranking higher than they initially did.

Don't worry about it, just keep building links and going through your promotion and it'll be back.

Less than 24 hours later all of my pages of all of my sites are indexed again.

I guess Google needs to work on their dancing skills..

[jitterbug978]

Well google won't remove a website from their index because of duplicate content. They pretty much say so in their guidelines.

Where in the webmaster tools can I find out why my site was removed?

[theGypsy]

To be honest, unless your site was hacked/cracked or maliciously hit in some way, Google is unlikely to tell you via WMT why your site was penalized (or removed).

I think folks need to keep in mind that while dupes may not alone get you tanked, it can, as part of the site profile, be a contributing factor...

If you have a thin (boilerplate) affiliate site with dupe content and shady links, there is the potential to form a profile that triggers spam bots. If one satisfies a variety of red flags, there certainly is the chance of not being indexed, or worse, penalties.

Now, all this being said, it can be hard to sort out penalties and there really isn't enough info to go on here (I deal with a lot of sites and Google penalties). You mentioned only having 3 backlinks to each and this is certainly something to look at.. while not a penalty, Google makes crawl/indexation decisions largely based upon backlinks (and global PR). If these are thin sites, which are new, and light on backlinks... this could be the problem as well.

As for moving hosting, search engines do look at host level issues as well. See these patents from Yahoo (and yes, Google does as well); Search Engine Spam detection at the host level

Now, I've only seen anecdotal evidence for this, so take it with a grain of salt...

While we're on it... peeps should always be monitoring their sites for hackers/crackers that leave hidden links. Keep you software up to date and monitor the site for changes. We've had clients that had this happen and were removed from Google for a spell...
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[dburk]

Originally Posted by jitterbug978

Well google won't remove a website from their index because of duplicate content. They pretty much say so in their guidelines.

Where in the webmaster tools can I find out why my site was removed?

Hi jitterbug97,

After your site is verified you can click on the Diagnostics menu and they will list any issues they had crawling or indexing your site.