66 sites de-indexed - What would you do?

[imfusa]

I think google is doing again illegal things.
Try to rank well on other search engines.

[Playground Equipment]

Put links to the site here. They'll be indexed in a day.

[Rita012]

It doesn't make sense to get rid of your Adsense if you're making money from it. Adsense will not get your site de-indexed if you follow it's TOS. Part of it is, not to have more than 3 adsense units on 1 page. The units shouldn't be of the same format. Not have other properties similar to Adsense on the same page.

You've already figured out the most probable cause of getting de-indexed: keyword stuffing in PAGE TITLE, META TAGS and PAGES.

Best to deactivate the auto tag plugins including keyword clouds widget.

Then fill-in manually the Page title, META description and keywords. 8 keywords are enough. You could use Google's Wonder Wheel for reference.

Page title shouldn't have more than 60 characters. Descriptions should not have more than 160 characters. These are according to most SE's.

If you haven't, now is your chance to include 2 main plugins that Google loves : XML site-map and Google Analytics.

After activating both, you can wait to get re-spidered. Or you can quicken the process of re-indexing. Submit your XMLsite-map file in Google's Webmaster Tools.

Finally, don't get caught again in the easy-way-out TREND. Almost everyone who got de-indexed are using 301 redirect. This is not fooling Google. Google is watching until they trigger another wave of de-indexing exercise for RELEVANCY.

Steps:
> Clean up each site first.
> Add usage policy and contact-us pages. ( make them slightly different for each site & specifically mentioning the domain name )
> Add a new useful content post/page & embed a relevant YouTube <-- add value to ur site
> Add text link footers, if they are not there
> Re-Permalink your site pages and posts.
> XML-site-mapped it.
> Connect the site to Google Analytics
> Get it re-spidered by SE's from their app page.
> Be patient

Hardwork and strategies will always pay off.

You know... I actually did hand do all my page meta data, and they were not keyword stuffed at all. The description used the key phrase just once, along with a call to action.
Title tags had the keyword phrase just once. I actually used very short titles. And, each page on my sites were different and targeted different phrases within that niche. I think the meta data was in good shape.

I also used a lot of youtube videos in my sites. I tried to find a good related video to go with my content, which I searched out myself on youtube.

Also have the xml sitemap and text link footers with all the necessary privacy policy, contact, disclaimer, etc.

I never do Google analytics. I think that give Google way to much power to get into my site. If I analyze a site in webmaster tools, I quickly delete it from there once I'm done.

I don't think it was any of those things. My adsense account is still okay. If I violated TOS on adsense, they would have disabled my adsense account.

I'm pretty certain that a page was found somewhere, that had the search tagging data, 10 related ebay listings, and the seo pressor, which was considered keyword stuffing.

I've always thought being 'diversified' is one important thing about protecting your income on the web.

But just having a lot of sites doesn't mean you are diversified.
Depending on adsense for all of them, using webmastertools for all of them... You aren't diversified at all. It's all google. It's all one acct. Gone tomorrow.

For the OP: If there's one good thing about getting 66 sites banned, it's that you can try and test different methods for getting them back.

I'm trying different things for my sites. Some got pulled completely, some get redirected, some get to wait it out. Maybe some content gets moved to 3rd party sites.

Why blindly try the same thing on all your sites? Test and see what works.

I agree with you there. Going to run some 301 tests today on a single site.

I think google is doing again illegal things.
Try to rank well on other search engines.

Yes.. but Google does have a 70 some % of market share.

Put links to the site here. They'll be indexed in a day.

That would work for a site that has never been indexed. This a due to a penalty, so link building won't get them out.

[MaryDD]

If your 66 sites are deindexed then there would be some thing common among them, try to understand that.

[Boris_yo]

Did all of your AdSense websites get deindexed? Was AdSense code on each website that you own or only on those that got deindexed?

[webjedi]

MaryDD and Boris are on the right track here.

Adsense account is still standing, no broad TOS violation.
Multiple hosts, IPs - not server related (accounts, hardware)
Aged domains from 1-10 yrs - Sudden ax.

Maybe all 66 domains expired (hah joke).

Are there any sites with the same Adsense account still indexed?

This completely smells like algorithm. You are us baed,m so are your servers and sites. You mentioned students use some of them for home work and one has a 6500 word article.. maybe you got caught in the Panda net as it were.

When they do an algo update, they don't just do ONE thing.
It was an ax chop, it was broad across your empire, differing sites, differing content, good SEO practices.

Adsense is common denominator, the only tie that even links the 66 sites.
Maybe you were doing too well?

Super high revenue?
Dominating too many results (Google complained, a competitor complained)

What a terrible thing and something that I specifically looked up cause I was worried about the Adsense footprint.

Please keep informing us...

wj

[dungdenvn]

bad news for you ... sry to hear that

[App Developers]

uh, I would sit down and cry! so, why is there so much talk of de-indexing. Does this happen if Google gets mad at you??

[AndyBlackSEO]

Originally Posted by Playground Equipment

Have you tried linking to your un-indexed sites from your indexed sites? That usually gets my sites indexed immediately.

What? So Google can then link all her sites together and de-index them too? I wouldn't risk it.

[dabbler]

Update on my situation (similar to the OP's)

After over 6 wks, the only thing that seems to have helped (a little at least) is getting a completely new domain and 301'ing the old site.

All the sites that I didn't redirect are still banned. No word from G on my re-inclusion requests. Most of the sites I have redirected are at least getting indexed and are showing in the SERP's. Though mostly at reduced levels.

[Groovystar]

My god, can you really get deindexed for one complaint about spam? I blog comment all the time but manually, and the link is my name. Could someone actually just post a bunch of spam pointing to a rival's site then go report it and that would be it?

[gearmonkey]

Any updates on this?

[dagaul101]

First off would have to find out what promoting techniques could have caused all those sites to be deindexed, and try to follow the rules per what the search engines are looking for

[viantea]

Google does not manually check sites.when their algorithm flags your site, they review it manually and make a decision. Always check your sites statcounter to see who is always checking on you. watch out for mountain view , and google browser, not the image bot. It happened to me, i noticed mountain view on four of my sites and the next day they were deindexed.

[jerytohn]

Originally Posted by viantea

Google does not manually check sites.when their algorithm flags your site, they review it manually and make a decision. Always check your sites statcounter to see who is always checking on you. watch out for mountain view , and google browser, not the image bot. It happened to me, i noticed mountain view on four of my sites and the next day they were deindexed.

Why were they de-indexed?

[Newbie11]

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

Too much speculation in this thread.

How do you conclude that Adsense was the reason for his site being deindexed and that jumping on affiliate marketing would solve his problems? That's nothing but speculation...maybe even the wrong thing to do.

Also..the notion that domain privacy protection is a reason for DEINDEXING a site is very absurd.

I agree...there is no way to know what is wrong with the sites until someone takes a look at it to analyze what is wrong.

[Newbie11]

Originally Posted by Rita012

@patrich - I'd rather not, since I still plan on working these sites. Once out on the WF, you can literally say goodbye to that niche. I'm not ready for that, although I do appreciate your help in trying to figure it out. I'm looking more on how best to move forward with these domains that were strong, and had solid backlinks to them. I think they could be of value used in a different way. ( And probably in a way that is much less labor intensive than managing that many sites).

Rita, if you are worried about posting the sites on the forum then just send a few of the advanced Warriors your one of your poor performing sites. Until then you will continue to speculate about what the problem could be.