Banned from google??

I had a friend who had the same situation occur. Turns our he was packing keywords behind his images, Google found it, and he was off their rankings. Or at least that is what we assume happened, since there is obviously no way of knowing. One year from the day he was "banned," his site re-appeared in the search results.

This is why it's so important to stick to best practices, and not attempt any type of spamming techniques. The best and longest lasting rankings are built over time through legitimate practice aka, building online respect and need for your content, product, or website.

haha...good one Paulgl.....DOTMK sounds like your in the beginners ring to SEO....no biggy we've all been there and your in the right forum to learn everything you need to know.

Getting to the top of Google is totally different from being indexed into Google.

Google is nothing more than a huge digital database....Google sends apps called spiders which crawl the net looking for new sites to put into their database.

When they crawl your site they attempt to determine what your site is about by reading certain areas of text like the url, tags, content of site and which words are repeated, etc.

They then index your site into the Google database based on what the spiders think your site is about.

Once your indexed then Google will put into the rankings for your keywords if you site meets the right criteria....they can't show everysite for every keyword in the search results so depending on the competition level. The more competition for a keyword the more upfront stats you will need to be entered into the database.

Example:

If you Google any keyword and the results say 1 out of 55 million. Google isn't going to show you 55 million results because it eats up too much space. Instead they will show you around 150 to 200 results if you navigate to end of the pages.

There you go. Everything else can be learned in this forum.