SOLUTION: You Got Penalized But Still Get Traffic From Other Sources Like Yahoo/Bing?
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We all say it so easily, we got penalized and get the suggestion to just move the site to a new domain.
But what if you still get return traffic?
You can't setup a 301 redirect as that passes on the penalty sooner then later.
And an empty screen with Click here to Continue also looks a bit noobish.
The solution is easier then you think though, so let's get started (I already posted this in another thread but thought it deserves it's own thread).
What we are going to do is block Google from our website, and for that we use the robots.txt and .htaccess file. Why both? Why not, better be sure.
You find both the robots.txt and .htaccess file in your /public_html/ folder at your hosting, sometimes the htaccess file is invisible so in that case you make it visible in Filezilla FTP or you use the file manager which mostly shows it by default.
1: Add the following to your robots.txt:
2: Add the following to your .htaccess file:
This guarantees that Google won't be able to visit your website anymore and thus it will get deindexed after time.
However that can take a while and we don't have that much time as time = money.
So we login or signup for Google Webmasters, we use the URL removal tool (that you find under Google Index -> Remove URL's) and enter each URL manually.
Too many url's? Then login to your FTP or File Manager and find out how many folders you have there, write them down and remove them with Google's URL removal tool, selecting the option "Remove Directory" after you pasted the url of your directory.
Easy as that.
Disclaimer: Don't move your site to a new domain until the site is completely deindexed in Google.
TIP: Do you have valuable back links and isn't the traffic from Bing/Yahoo to impressive? Contact the site owners and ask them to move your link to your new domain!
Extra: Sure you can also wait till the penalty gets lifted but that can take forever and it isn't any guaranteed that you'll ever rank as well as before again.
Extra TIP: Quit building spammy links
and also check out my other thread here to prevent site errors and duplicate content as a penalty is always a combination of factors so start with a clean sheet instead of making the same mistakes over and over.
http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...te-issues.html
But what if you still get return traffic?
You can't setup a 301 redirect as that passes on the penalty sooner then later.
And an empty screen with Click here to Continue also looks a bit noobish.
The solution is easier then you think though, so let's get started (I already posted this in another thread but thought it deserves it's own thread).
What we are going to do is block Google from our website, and for that we use the robots.txt and .htaccess file. Why both? Why not, better be sure.
You find both the robots.txt and .htaccess file in your /public_html/ folder at your hosting, sometimes the htaccess file is invisible so in that case you make it visible in Filezilla FTP or you use the file manager which mostly shows it by default.
1: Add the following to your robots.txt:
Code:
User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks
#block Google
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Googlebot.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^.*.* http://www.siteyouwantgoogletoredirectto.com/ [L] However that can take a while and we don't have that much time as time = money.
So we login or signup for Google Webmasters, we use the URL removal tool (that you find under Google Index -> Remove URL's) and enter each URL manually.
Too many url's? Then login to your FTP or File Manager and find out how many folders you have there, write them down and remove them with Google's URL removal tool, selecting the option "Remove Directory" after you pasted the url of your directory.
Easy as that.
Disclaimer: Don't move your site to a new domain until the site is completely deindexed in Google.
TIP: Do you have valuable back links and isn't the traffic from Bing/Yahoo to impressive? Contact the site owners and ask them to move your link to your new domain!
Extra: Sure you can also wait till the penalty gets lifted but that can take forever and it isn't any guaranteed that you'll ever rank as well as before again.
Extra TIP: Quit building spammy links
and also check out my other thread here to prevent site errors and duplicate content as a penalty is always a combination of factors so start with a clean sheet instead of making the same mistakes over and over.http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...te-issues.html
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