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Does Checking Backlinks get Site De-Indexed?

by Marhelper
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A while ago I heard that checking backlinks for your site would end in getting your site sandboxed or de-indexed by Google. I heard the same thing again and now am kind of paranoid. It does not seem to make sense as you could do this to your competition just to get them done in by the Google. Has anyone else heard this before?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRookie
    Where did you hear this, I really doubt it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by TheRookie View Post

      Where did you hear this, I really doubt it.
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      I do check my webmaster tools stats to see which keywords are getting indexed and ranked but also for checking any errors that googlebot may find. However for my main keywords I set my google preferences for 100 and then search for my target keyword phrase. I then press CTRL + F (in firefox) and enter my domain name to see if it appears in top 100. I will check down to position 500 or so just to see if google are actually indexing my site for that keyword.

      I also have SEO Elite but I strongly recommend that you never use the Project 5 (search for indexed keywords) for more than a couple of keywords and not very often. I used to use it all the time for checking my sites until one day I used it for a period of an hour checking just 1 site that was well indexed and ranked. Imediately after that my site got completely deindexed in google and has never been back since. Part of google's webmaster quality guidelines states that you shouldn't use automated tools to check web positions and that is why my site got deindexed. This was confirmed by google after I appealed.

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      Originally Posted by Julia Andersson
      Hi Kevin

      I'm not Steve, obviously But I'll tell you how I know my own rankings. I signed up to google webmaster tools at Google Webmaster Central (you can sign in with your adsense details) add your site to the tools there, verify it by adding a meta tag to the header then click the 'verify site' button, the page will confirm that the site is verified. Then you wait a week or so and go back, click the sites URL in the dashboard. Then in the left panel click 'statistics' then 'top search queries' which will take you to a page that tells you the top 20 search queries that your site appears in... and what number they appear at.... just to reassure you too, if a keyword doesn't appear in this list it doesn't mean you're not ranking for it.

      Not sure if this is what Steve uses because I'm certain the blog is ranking higher for a lot of other keyphrases so I'd like to hear his answer also.
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      • Profile picture of the author NPmaster
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        • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
          Originally Posted by NPmaster View Post

          De-indexed for running automated programs. I doubt Google can do that it would only be a loophole for haters to take down a site?
          That's what I was thinking too but after hearing it from a couple different IMers I started getting concerned.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Just to clarify, I am talking about using a site like backlinkwatch dot com or another automated program to check for backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daisuke
    Your site won't get banned, only the backlink checker will get banned from google for a while. Everyone's site would be banned then. And if you checked the backlinks of your competitor's sites they would also be banned.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    I doubt it, because people are checking competitors backlinks all the time, well at least I know I am, and once you achieve high ranking positions in google for your keywords, you better belive people are checking yours, so I hardly doubt it would affect anything or no site would last on google for any amount of time
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  • Profile picture of the author milan
    Not only de-indexed AND sandboxed! They come to your house, rape your wife and kill your first born child. That was the idea behind the feature to check the backlinks anyway.

    Warning: Don't use Google at all! It's very dangerous.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Originally Posted by Traffic-Bug View Post

    may be the SEO company you are using, does not want you to check your actual backlinks which you are paying for. Thats why they are giving you this kind of mythical advice. Simply not true
    Never did and never would pay for SEO services.
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  • Profile picture of the author ebizza
    No. That is impossible
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  • Profile picture of the author TechBlog
    this is just weird ... i dont think so it would be a matter!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author rankqu
    nah! doesn't make any sense.. coz my competition can run site:yoursitename.com to check my site's backlinks and if it is to throw my site into sandbox.. then i guess the whole scneario of having a PR or backlinks doesnt make any sense to me

    i don't think this works in any case.. there are many tools which could tell the backlinks for a site.. and they have PR..
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