Google Help Please...

[danmart]

I have a domain that was working great for Adwords. Then all of a sudden, My min bids went up to $10.00 I tried everything but nothng worked. I then moved the SAME PAGE to another domain and they are accepted just fine. Can someone tell me how to chek on Google if the domain is blacklisted and if so, what if anything can be done about it. The domain is Reverse Phone Review

Thanks,

Dan Neece

[Brian_Mahaffey]

Dan,
Not sure how to tell if it is blacklisted but I think I know why you got slapped

Your privacy policy is a dead link. http://www.reversephonereview.org/rp...vacypolicy.htm

Also, I would add a sitemap link, a link to external sites that are high ranking and an "about us link." to improve your quality score.

[dzoaffiliate]

Yes for a good QS you need:
1. Content MUST be relevent.
2. Contact Us Page
3. Site Map file
4. Privacy Policy Page
5. External Links to your site (Ezine Articles, Queedoo, facebook are very good)

Google will slap you badly if your keywords do not reflect the content on your site. Maybe your site does not have the relevancy factor.

DZ

[sourcecode]

Hey guys,

Everytime I add external links onto my XML sitemap, Google says NOPE when I submit it. How do you ad external links to a sitemap without this happening?

thank you

[dburk]

Hi sourcecode,

Since your question is unrelated to the topic of this thread, you should start your own thread.

To answer your question, sitemaps are not suppose to contain external links.

for more information go to sitemaps.org

@danmart

You have indeed been Google Slapped, which means that your keywords have earned poor quality scrores. There are numerous reasons that may have caused this and there is no need to guess. You can use the Keyword Analysis Page to find out what is causing you poor Quality Score.

You should immediately pause any keywords with poor QS until you find why they have earned a poor QS and have fixed all issues.

Even after you have fixed all issues, your minimum bids will remain high for a few days. You should run a small set of ad groups, each with just one laser targeted keyword, exact match only, until the QS improves. Then continue adding ad groups slowly while monitoring the QS. Never allow a poor QS to continue running, because it will affect your overall account.

[sourcecode]

Thank you for the advice. The reason why I asked because I know someone that does very well with PPC and they have linked to outside websites in his sitemap with out Google slapping him.

[dburk]

Hi sourcecode,

Site maps (two words) is not the same as sitemaps (one word) even though they are pronounced the same.

You could link to external sites in your site map (HTML) but external links in sitemaps (XML) are a breach of protocol and make your sitemap invalid.

While you can put external links in your site map it might be a bit confusing to your visitors. I usually put those type of links in the footer along with copyright notices and other small print. There would be no real advantage to putting them in the site map, I assume the reason is to bury them in obscurity.

[cookies]

newbie question - Regarding the difference between "Site Map" (a page) and "sitemap" (a file), do I link the sitemap in my page footer, or just leave it in a filefolder somewhere for a spider to find?

Thank you