Totally de-indexed sites...can they come back?

[lee schmidt]

I just had ~30 sites de-indexed that were mostly small 3 - 5 page sites. Has anyone successfully brought sites like this back into the Google index or once they're gone is it permanent?

They all had adsense, a privacy policy, and a few pages of content. Nothing blackhat and nothing against the adsenes TOS. Barely even did any linking to them, but now they have just disappeared.

[howdo-i]

I had a good site deindexed for over 2 years then it suddenly came back. Another site was deindexed about a year ago - I'm still waiting for that one.

Steve

[Peter Gregory]

Originally Posted by lee schmidt

I just had ~30 sites de-indexed that were mostly small 3 - 5 page sites. Has anyone successfully brought sites like this back into the Google index or once they're gone is it permanent?

They all had adsense, a privacy policy, and a few pages of content. Nothing BlueFart and nothing against the adsenes TOS. Barely even did any linking to them, but now they have just disappeared.

If they are in fact de-indexed from google, meaning removed completely they will not be found using the site: operator. Is that the case or did you just lose rankings?

If that is the case there are ways to get it them back, but it will require you to identify the reasoning behind the de-indexation, fix the problem, and then request reconsideration via webmaster tools in your google account. Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Requesting reconsideration using Google Webmaster Tools

If these were just 3-5 page thin sites with no real value to visitors, you need to look at upping your game a bit and create a user experience that is going to give google a reason to want to bring them back. I know you hear it over and over, but content is king so if you don't correct that first and foremost you will need to start looking for some new domains/projects to work on. Take it as a learning experience and move forward one way or another.

[Fernando Veloso]

That's weird, sites with no content at all keep indexed.

Maybe there is more to it OP. Where the sites in same niche, interlinked, something unusual?

[simpleonline1234]

This question seems to be appearing a lot lately on here.....I'm taking a wild jab but maybe Google is cracking down on the sites with little content...X-factor style type sites.

Try beefing up the site with some more content and resubmit through web masters tool.

[Bertil Jenner]

Considering your sites are typical MFA, I doubt that writing to Google would help.

If I were you, I would buy 30 domains and transfer teh content from the de-indexed sites onto the new domains. I would then make sure that I improve on the quality of those new domains by adding more original content.

Add video and other media to the homepage to make it less like your typical MFA.

And lastly, I would also not use an identical domain registration address for all of the 30 new domains.

[digitalproductreporter]

reinclusion request can get a site back in, but I find it takes another year to get rankings back to what they were.

next time I would register them all with private whois and use shared hosting if you didn't this time and no interlinking

[dannykth8]

Your sites will be back...but If you want to back soon, try to add more links. it help!

[benkleiner]

Your sites will neither be back nor you'll get any explanation from G about the reason.

Forget about them and start from scratch and try not to repeat the spamming or whatever you have done to get banned!

Myself, I lost 40 sites last year as you did (mostly *.info)!

[Chris Sweeney]

Any update on your sites, Lee?