My site is banned

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Today I saw that my site dropped visitors. So my first thing was that my site is banned. Why?

I have not done anything with my site? My site has not been much changed then when it was indexed, so why, why whyyyy?

What should I do to get it indexed?
#search engine optimization #banned #site
  • Is it really banned though?

    If it is then you need to go here Requesting reconsideration of your site - Webmaster Tools Help AFTER you fix what is wrong.

    My guess is your not really banned.
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    • What's the URL of your website so that I can take a look?
  • hey let me know your web site...? then I will let you know the problem...
  • Please share with me as well, I am curious as to why this was potentially banned to take notes on what to avoid.


    Also it would help if people who know why shared with people who are still learning(like this guy)
  • Install webmaster tools and then check out whats your site status. If it is really banned then ask for reconsideration only after making the changes.
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    • Thanks for all your answers.

      My site is in my signature named tvito.

      And Aaron. If I can't find my site in google when searching so it must be banned, or?

      I had about 10.000 visitors a day and today only 88 visitors.

      O god I hope I can get my site back. I never wanted to do something wrong :-(
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  • The way to check if your site is still indexed by google is to type the following into google:

    site:yoursite.com

    And see if anything pops up. Just because you're not showing up under your keywords doesn't mean you have been de-indexed.
  • Yep, your site is gone from the index. As suggested above, you can install GWT and check the status.
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    • Google indexes and de-indexes sites all the time.
      They fluctuate. I doubt very seriously if you had
      10,000 visitors a day.

      Your site is filled with junk with a capital J.

      It's not rocket surgery to figure out why it got the
      boot.

      If people would have visited and surfed around, it would
      have been obvious.

      Clicked on "post links on google" category and man were
      the results painful.

      Sorry.

      Guess you're lucky it's not quite enough for an adsense ban.

      Article sites are not bad, but man is that one excruciating to peruse.

      Here's another example. Click on 2nd category. "Content and site
      structure." Yeah. Right. The results were just $%^$^&&%^@#%&!

      Paul
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  • Yep, lots of article directories are hammered after new update from G.
    Wonder why so many article directories there on Article Marketing Robot are de-indexed too? This is the reason!
  • You've likely had what Google calls "manual action" taken against your site, since it's completely gone from the index.

    Why? I hate to say it since I'm sure you were making some decent money on that site, but it's because your site provides absolutely no value to a Google visitor.

    There is no unique content on your site. It's all spun copies of articles, and most of the spinning is pretty poor at that. I'm guessing almost all of your articles come from various paid submission tools like UAW or AMR.

    Again, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but that site is done as far as Google is concerned and won't be coming back. The fact that you can search for "tvito.com" and not have your site appear is very telling that you've been manually removed by a Google Quality Engineer. You can resubmit your site for consideration, but it's not going to happen without removing 100% of your articles and replacing them with completely original content.

    It's VERY likely you'll never see traffic to that site from Google again.

    Learn from this experience and move on.
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    • Very good information...I'm sure you're a very experienced internet marketer..You're very good at SEO..Your explanation help me much..thanks..I hope i'll never experience the same thing like this guy..
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  • Onme of mine is banned too. No idea why it should be.
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    • It's not banned, it's just not indexed. You can get it re-indexed if you take the proper steps.
  • yea, your site is not indexed, maybe that happened because google identified your site as a link farm or content farm, so remove unnecessary things and apply again for the reconsideration.
    links from bad neighborhood doesn't make sites de-indexed, if so, many people will do this for their competitors.
  • look up your site to webmaster tools and check your site status and find the problem and improve it.....
  • Whats your site address.I hope your site was not figured by google sandbox.
  • Share your site so that we can look and tell you,Banning means de-index for temporary don't worry for that.
  • Guys, read up, they mentioned his site several times... However, I do agree with the others, junk websites don't have much chance getting back on the big G... you would have to remake your website and when you do that, you should add some moderation to the content posted.
  • Banned
    Wow.... this is a real hit. This will be a lesson to a lot of people and they will understand the value of original contents like EZA and articlebase does.

    Sorry man
  • have you break rules???
  • Banned


    I'll be surprised If your Adsense doesn't get hit next.

    Your sites content is totally , how long did you really think that would last before the $hit hit the fan?

    You did zero work, so why would you even start a thread crying about the Google smackdown, lol! :rolleyes:

    Your getting everything you put into the site, which is nothing.

    Good luck with that...
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    • First of all I want to thanks all of them who gave me hope nad helping me with suggestions. I will take it with me and clean up my site.

      Second - I WAS NOT AUTOBLOGGING. I just didn't had control on members articles, they where all auto-approved even if I had option that admin should approve the article.
      I guess I need to get another article directory WP plugin or site that make me easy to control.
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  • use google webmaster tools and find out if it has been banned.. its free and if it is banned u an submit it for reconsideration... just avoid any black hat seo techniques to increase rank coz thats why usually sites get banned for..
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    • please tell me where in google webmaster tool I can find what was deindexing my site?
  • So the solution is to manualy approve articles insted of autoapprove?
    How will he know what is good or bad content? Or unique? ( i have article directories as well)
    I did notice the first article i looked at on you site was about bulimia, but the link was for drills?

    Good luck
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    • That's too bad. I'm familiar with that article directory script and a popular article exchange service that shows people how to use it.

      I'm just guessing, but I bet Google is going after all of the "content farms" and the sites that share that data.

      - Tony
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  • According to me your site is banned due to panda update of google, your sites looks like a wordpress article site where user can post article and get instant approval. So many user can copy someone's article. Avoid auto approval in article directory
  • Hey
    Send me the url of your site then i can check it very carefully and i could suggest you to for that problem.
  • Thanks.

    I know from all of you why my site was banned. But I heard that I could look in google webmaster tool and see what exactly made it.

    And YES I know that my site had auto approved articles and I know it is bad. I tried to make it manually approved my me but I didn't manage it.

    My site can be found in my signature named tvito.
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    • That's not why you are "banned" (you're not banned, just penalized).

      You got that way because you were using a premade script that gave your pages on your site the same footprint as thousands of other websites that use that same script.

      My advice (for this site and any other you build): customize what you buy.

      That script came with a theme/template for the pages. Change those first. Optimize the HTML code and remove any unneeded tags. That will already put you in reconsideration once Google recrawls your site because it thinks you've done stuff and will look different than every other site running the script with the default theme.

      Next, change the URL structure and links that the script uses. For instance, the easiest way to figure out if a site is running a particular forum is to look at the URL and see "forum.php" or "forum". Or, look at the links and see "add.php" or "register.php".

      Footprints are what get you in trouble. Minimize yours.
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  • I think one or two of the above posters are right:

    Your site has been penalised because it is a linking site disguised as an article directory ... the link building category is a perfect example .. no articles about 'link building' !!

    Dave
  • RIP and onto the next level up.
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  • Hello Dear

    hey let me know your web site...? then I will let you know the problem...
  • Sorry to know that...
  • Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong
  • us the same fate also banned my site ..
  • Hello

    First for your question very nice! You should Install webmaster tools and then check out whats your site status. If it is really banned then ask for reconsideration only after making the changes.
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    • Hi guys as a newbie I recently made the mistake of trying to use Adwords to promote a wordpress pre sale page with an affiliate link to a clickbank ebook on yeast infections. Google suspended my account and then saw that I had a another campaign that was deleted by me because I change my mind. They had me remove links from both sites and I await review to see if my account will be renabled again. I was pissed because they don't tell you much on what is wrong but now realize that I should read up on techniques more before diving in.

      Does anyone know of tips and tricks to stay on Googles good side when using Adwords? There is a site called Adwordsminisites.com that is supposed to be good at putting together sites that are Google friendly but they are closed down for now and are asking for $3,000 for newcomers.

      I just want to learn how to do things corectly and i am sure first step is to stay away from promoting products that makes claims Google considers bogus.
  • Ok. I have now cleaned my site totally. I asked Google for reconsideration and still they won't approve my site. Why? I only had 12 post and they where 90% original but google said NO.

    What more do I think about? Am I missing something?
  • Possibly Content Farm update might have flushed your rankings down. Most of the low quality article submission sites are facing the issue.
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    • I don't have low quality on my articles. Yea you maybe can find article on 1 or 2 other sites. How can google know if article from my site wasn't copied to another site?

      Another thing
      I heard from one person that he is only using copied articles on his stie and it is working great.
  • May be you have used duplication content or spam links are check them
  • I am mad now. Google disapproved my site for the second time.

    Please someone, is there someone that can see why they disapproved my site again?
    All of the post where not published else where when I published them n my site. I had about 40 post on my site when Google review my site.
    But comeone 40 post that can make my site disapproved? There must be some other issue that. They told me only that they disapproved it because of the quality.

    You can find my site in my signature. The last one with articles.
  • Banned
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  • The articles on your site look like forty word twitter tweets, not real articles. Write twenty or thirty real, 700 or 800 word articles, get at least two or three articles into each category, then ask for a reconsideration.

    You are dealing with real live people at Google at this point, and they are going to read your site each time you submit it for reconsideration. What are they looking for? They are looking for the same quality of article you would find in a magazine at the newsstand.
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    • Please explain. I can't find this tweet articles. Can you please tel me where they are on my site?

      I will take it with me. I will spread articles over every category if that is the issue.
  • If you are certain you have not done any actions that might get your band banned or sandboxed, it may not be banned, but going through what folks term a "Google dance" where Google decides the best position for your site
  • "Powered by WordPress · Using Article Directory plugin · Theme by Dimox" << is the reason why many wordpress based low life articles directories are getting hammered.
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    • Thanks that is maybe another issue. I will take it with me.
  • nice information
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  • I checked all three of your sites and they are indexed. As far as the traffic goes.. I would not worry about it. My site took a hit as well but it's still getting traffic and as long as I keep adding quality content, it will be back to where it was in no time. I'm also painstakingly going through each article and if I find one that's are all over the web (in other words duplicates) then I delete it but don't delete to many at once or that will make it worse. Delete a few then add a few.. that's what I doing and traffic is coming back.

    Hope that helps
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    • My article directory site is not indexed. How do you know that it is indexed? Because I can find it in google and they are also telling me that my site is de-indexed.

      Anyway I know what to do now. I will get it indexed now.

      thanks everyone
  • This site should help you figure out what the problem is:
    How to Handle a Google Penalty - And, an Example from the Field of Real Estate | SEOmoz
  • Please someone. For third time my site was not accepted by google. I have even changed my theme to a unique one and added Privacy Policy. I have 98 article published and they where all unique when I accepted them They are in right categories.
    SO what is wrong?

    Why don't google point me to the right place where they don't like my site. I only get from them that the site is not following Google's quality guidelines.

    But where? Please, should I leave this site and go with a new one?

    My site is last one in my signature.
  • Was your site advertised in google? If so it's possible that google changed some rules again, they are known for doing that. You have to stay up and current with google's advertising rules and regulations policy. When they change them, that will knock your site out until you make changes to satisfy their rules. Correct that and your site should get ranked back up again. Hope this helps.
  • Guys , I suggest you look at this. Same Guy , who posted. This , you website is full of DUP content!

    My site is deindexed bu Google, but why? - Webmaster Central Help
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    • Please don't you have anything else to do? have you checkout my site before you post this crappy link? This is an old post. I have cleaned my site totally it took a long time. But now it is 100% clean. So don't look back simplybeastz and try to help me out instead .-)
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  • can u tell me your url i will check it out.. and i can give suggestions
  • I don't get it. What if article that I submitted on my site where first. and on other site they are copy. How will google know which is original?

    When I am approving articles I am checking them. Now after one month. Of course you will not find any unique article even on ezinearticles check they article. You will find their article spred on whole www.

    Do also google look after people that can't write good english (like me) will this people not have any success becasue they are bad in english? Every is not perfect :-)

    Srinu my site is the last in my signature.
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  • Thanks Klauzer! You have made good information here with your site. Tell us if you have exactly information why google banned your site! Actually your site still index in Yahoo and Bing.
  • Yes I know that my site is indexed in Yahoo and Bing but I don't get much traffic from there.
    I have cleaned all of my posts now so my site is empty. You bet you 100% that google will still not index my site. I have made a reconsideration now lets see what they say.
  • So I got a message from Google again. The result is that my site will again not be indexed. But WHY?
    I have deleted all post. There is nothing that can be duplicated neither bad written post.
    I only have a clean, nice design.

    So can some one tell me why Google makes this so difficult for me?
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    • Hi klauzer,

      You have no content that adds value or that users would find useful. I don't understand why you would think Google would want to index a bunch of pages that seem to exist for no other purpose than to display advertisements.

      I think you may have your priorities backwards. First, build useful content that adds value, build traffic, then monetize with ads.

      Also, I would advise staying away from some of the topics that you have in your navigational menu. Google doesn't like to see advertisements on topics like death, or the imminent threat of death from a terminal disease. It's considered bad taste. Stay away from health related issues unless you have some bonafide credentials in that area.

      Because your website has been de-indexed, you will be under intense scrutiny during reconsideration. You have a higher standard that you must meet to be approved for re-indexing. They are not going to re-index your website if you are showing the least amount of effort you can get away with to clean up website. Don't just remove offending content, replace it with quality content that is useful and adds value.
  • How can you tell us that your site is banned?, dropping of site traffic is not the only indication your site is banned. Can you tell us some more detail.
  • There is no such thing "Banned", neither search engines deindex sites without any reason. Yes sites normally loose rankings because of different reasons. you don't need to worry about that. It would be regained after sometime.
  • He's not getting that site reindexed again so you can stop offering that advice. I had a neighbor get a $4000 autoblog system all deindexed at once... a whole bunch of sites all at once. Just for fun, we tried several things and applied for resubmission... denied every time. We both simply learned from this (I immediately rehosted all of my sites).
    1) Never ever use WebMaster Tools and Analytics if you have any kind of site that's not true, blue 100% value (spun content, auto generated content, etc...). Google used WebMaster Tools to find my buddies sites and every one was deindexed over night. We know this for a fact because he had 2 sites he never added and whadda' ya know... those were the only 2 sites that didn't get deindexed.

    2) SEO Hosting only... Class C Domains. Fly under the radar with all your sites so if 1 ever gets hit, they all don't.
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    • So you suggestion is that leave analytic and webmaster tool?

      What should I do now with that domain name if my site will not get indexed at all?
  • How do you know it's banned? I have sites that are on the first page of google one day and the next are completely dropped out of sight... Few days later they're back up on top again.

    Unless you are certain you site has been banned then I wouldn't be worried. And if your site is banned... ask yourself why?

    Google don't ban sites (usually) for poor content... You're free to create a crappy site if you want. They probably won't rank it very well as they want the best sites on the top of their serps, but they won't ban you.

    They will ban you if you're creating questionable content... ie scraping other people's content.

    Just review their guidelines and if your site doesn't break the rules then I doubt you've been banned.

    Shannon
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    • oh he's deindexed (banned) alright.. and not coming back. Just do: site:tvito.com in Google. Zero results means they pulled the plug.

      And they will ban any site that they consider MFA.
  • Klauzer,

    I've beaten my head on a wall trying to get one of my domains indexed, and after 5 reconsideration rejections, with a complete site re-design every time, I have to face the reality that I have to do something radically different to prove to Google that I am not just putting a pretty face forward until they index me and then do the same old thing.

    I need to make a major investment in making the site stellar, or I need to give up on it. My choice. I think you are in the same boat.

    For now, it sits doing nothing.
  • Banned
    So, now you have content + two affliate banner Ads & you want your pages indexed?

    You went from spun articles to nothing at all.
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    • Not at all.

      I still have
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    My site is banned

    Today I saw that my site dropped visitors. So my first thing was that my site is banned. Why? I have not done anything with my site? My site has not been much changed then when it was indexed, so why, why whyyyy?