66 sites de-indexed - What would you do?

wow, this makes me think about removing adsense from my websites. I really don't make much from it anyway....

This sounds like Googles abuse of power...

I would pick one of the sites & hammer the $hit out of it with high PR authority links.

If that doesn't bring it back, nothing will.

Are you 100% sure you are no longer indexed?

I'm sorry if you already answered this, but you're saying that none of the 66 sites show in Google with the site: command??

When you check site:yoursite.com do you see any results .
Also , are you by any chance located in UK ? and are you using google UK to check your rankings ? Because the Panda update began in UK this weekend . so if you sites show up after checking the site: command , you are experiencing the Google Panda update

I guess the only common element amongst them all is your AdSense ID as you said. I would try removing AdSense from a few (or all) of them completely, leaving no common element among them, and see if that does anything.

If it helps, then find a different way to monetize that traffic instead of AdSense.

Also, I wouldn't necessarily build one mega website combining topics from all of them... but maybe group similar niches together and build more than one authority sites.

If I was in your position, I would get some more high PR links to some of them and give it time, before doing anything.

Start new. If they're deindexed it basically means they are dead. You will get 10% of the traffic you once had, from bing and yahoo.

And think over why they got de-indexed...there must be a reason.

No its really not. There must be significant reason WHY..and the reason must be even worse than "duplicate content". (Dupe content usually doesnt get you de-indexed) A site gets de-indexed if someone complains about spamming, for example. Or some other, significant violations of Google etc. TOS.

Well it is *likely* that Google got tougher recently, but de-indexing because of Adsense on Privacy doesnt make sense.

They would either disable your adsense account, OR, if you are lucky, warn you and give you a chance to fix the problem(s) on your site. But not DEINDEX.

Reasons could be:

You used twitter, facebook etc. to spam links, ONE SINGLE PERSON complaining would be enough.
You spammed a blog/forum....again..it takes one single person filing a spaim complaint..byebye
You interlinked the blogs?
The sites were really, really crappy with multiple violations like copyright violations, dupe content, bad ad placement, bad navigation...so bad they didnt even bother to disable your account but rather deindexed? (not that likely...but who knows...)

Unlikely IMO that Adsense violations would de-index your site...is your adsense account still active?

Could you post one of your sites so we can see what the probably problem was?

They were all using the same Google Analytics account or Google Webmaster tools? Perhaps that could be the reason!

are these Made For Adsense Sites? with auto content plugins?

Been reading alot on the article directory sites getting pushed down the rankings, or worst DE-indexed

-Brandon

Okay, 66 sites, different niches, different servers, this makes no sense. There has to be something you have done...

Can you provide links to these sites? I really don't believe that 66 of your own sites are entirely deindexed.

Can you please post a couple links, or PM them to me? I think you're confusing deindexed with losing rank!

Hey Rita.

You should put the URL of one of your sites, there could be something in your sites that you overlooked.

If you got so many sites de indexed that MUST Have a specific reason. I definitely would figure out why that happened and how you can get back on track. Google has continues Algorithm changes and this might have to to with the quality of backlinks and also how you build them.

I saw there a good suggestion with getting high PR authority backlinks. This can be the solution, but you have to know why it happened first.

Have you tried linking to your un-indexed sites from your indexed sites? That usually gets my sites indexed immediately.

Google doesnt like ebay feeds, but ALSO doesnt like yahoo answers "copy paste jobs", youtube feeds/scrapes...ezine feeds etc.

Basically ALL the big and known sites, not only ebay. Not that long ago there was a thread someone getting deindexed, he had a jazz site with jazz videos from youtube, used youtube descriptions. --> deindexed!

Short: If your site does not have UNIQUE content you are in trouble.

(There are a few exceptions, eg. RSS feeds from news agencies etc.)

not "any" privacy, the privacy p. MUST mention Google and the Dart Cookie.

Attn Rita012 : I am a newbie, you mentioned WPGM, I Googled it and is that a forum where you pay $19.95 a month?

This has been a interesting thread.

Thanks

Hi Rita,

Don't let Google make you give-up on your money making sites and throw them down the drain.

I have some suggestions for you to consider. Might make your sites sticky and be less dependent on Google. Google may even reverse their decisions later on, once they review your sites.

Consideration 1
Have you taken a look at how you build your META TAGS - Descriptions and Keywords, for each site ?

These 2 tags could be part of the problem to Google if they are spammy.

I heard Google used to ignore Meta Keywords because people tend to spam keywords in it, even if the other parts of the content are not.

But with Google's recent overzealous on RELEVANCY, they might look inside of META KEYWORDS as a factor in their de-indexing decision.

Consideration 2
Your main concern is traffic to your sites, right?

A. Have you registered all your de-indexed sites with DMOZ.org? This might help in driving traffic from millions of AOL searches. Google do respect DMOZ because of the human-factor of the directory. Being registered in DMOZ might help get you re-indexed.

B. Register manually all your de-indexed sites with Tier-2 Search Engines. This will raise traffic.

C. The orthodox traffic method. Make your own directory on a new domain, placing summaries of all your de-indexed sites together. Use hard-coded HTML because this means speed. Make a 1 paragraph summary for each site with the title as a anchor text cleanly hyperlinked. SEO it. And if you have a small budget, advertise this self-made directory using Facebook and POF !

D. The video traffic method. Make a Video SlideShow for each of your de-indexed site. It is like a summary of each site. Place royalty-free music, text, images and/or voice over. Upload them to YouTube. It is virtually selling your site to viewers. Make a summary of each site as the description and be sure to use http:// preceding each domain name.

E. The article marketing method. Use Hubpages, Squidoo and Videojug Pages to place summaries about each of your site. You can even place video summary of each site in it. Easy and fun to use. Forget other article directories which are tedious and require approvals.

Consideration 3
You mentioned about speed of more than 20 seconds to completely load each site.

WP is well-liked by almost everyone, including Google. But it is still template-based and database dependent. Therefore, speed of loading is highly dependent on how busy the shared-hosting is.

Other reasons that may slowdown loading are especially AMAZON and WP-Plugins.

A. Deactivate the plugins that may be the causing the slowdown or

B. Recreate all your de-indexed sites using hardcoded HTML. This really means speed loading. And you can manage all sites and upload content using a single point desktop software.

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Just some ideas for warriors who have been affected by Google.

Allow alternatives so as to prevent being victimized by GIANTS.

Well, the best thing to do is, if you got 66 websites de-indexed by Google or other SEs, then it's time for you to change your internet promoting strategy and just stick to white hat for the next time, you cannot blame Google for de-indexing your websites, as long as you are not doing something against their rules. Well, lessons learn I guess.

Taking the Adsense off immediately would be the first step. Then I'd throw some links at your sites and see if you come back.

If your sites don't come back, I'd try a 301 redirect using just 1 site.

301 Redirect old site to brand new site. Try to rank brand new site. If the brand new site ranks, do 301 redirects for all sites. If the new site will not rank after significant backlinking, then get rid of your old sites. They are junk.

Google Sucks, and it's best to have multiple Adwords, Adsense, Analytics, and Webmaster tools accounts for each site.

You might wanna consider other things now. I know you are saying that it is easier to earn money with adsense, but if you do it right and long enough, then you can get good money by doing affiliate.

Too much speculation in this thread.

How do you conclude that Adsense was the reason for his site being deindexed and that jumping on affiliate marketing would solve his problems? That's nothing but speculation...maybe even the wrong thing to do.

Also..the notion that domain privacy protection is a reason for DEINDEXING a site is very absurd.

Yeah, I think of adsense as kind of a bad 2 edged sword now. It's the easiest way for them (along w/webmaster tools) to find out which other sites you own.
Plus if they decide to suddenly hold adsense sites to a higher standard, by banning or penalizing (a-la Panda) they have you at their mercy that way too.

Yes this is likely although i myself didn't consider that plugin in question *that* dangerous. It was probably that in combination with other factors....some unlucky combination which triggered some of their bots.

As said, i had that plugin running once just to see what exactly it does, but then came to the conclusion i want to chose my tags myself and not let the plugin create tags on incoming search phrases. While this is interesting, it it not necessarily the best thing to do respective there are better ways to "attract" searches, eg. with longer content

yep, see your point now. And getting paranoid also, somewhat. I should stop reading those threads

66 sites deindexed in just one go..it's really shocking,it forces me to think that the sites were of little value in terms of Google that is why it did that.Be sure that your site is so powerful that Google should think twice before removing deindexing them.

I think google is doing again illegal things.
Try to rank well on other search engines.

If your 66 sites are deindexed then there would be some thing common among them, try to understand that.

MaryDD and Boris are on the right track here.

Adsense account is still standing, no broad TOS violation.
Multiple hosts, IPs - not server related (accounts, hardware)
Aged domains from 1-10 yrs - Sudden ax.

Maybe all 66 domains expired (hah joke).

Are there any sites with the same Adsense account still indexed?

This completely smells like algorithm. You are us baed,m so are your servers and sites. You mentioned students use some of them for home work and one has a 6500 word article.. maybe you got caught in the Panda net as it were.

When they do an algo update, they don't just do ONE thing.
It was an ax chop, it was broad across your empire, differing sites, differing content, good SEO practices.

Adsense is common denominator, the only tie that even links the 66 sites.
Maybe you were doing too well?

Super high revenue?
Dominating too many results (Google complained, a competitor complained)

What a terrible thing and something that I specifically looked up cause I was worried about the Adsense footprint.

Please keep informing us...

wj

bad news for you ... sry to hear that

uh, I would sit down and cry! so, why is there so much talk of de-indexing. Does this happen if Google gets mad at you??

Update on my situation (similar to the OP's)

After over 6 wks, the only thing that seems to have helped (a little at least) is getting a completely new domain and 301'ing the old site.

All the sites that I didn't redirect are still banned. No word from G on my re-inclusion requests. Most of the sites I have redirected are at least getting indexed and are showing in the SERP's. Though mostly at reduced levels.

My god, can you really get deindexed for one complaint about spam? I blog comment all the time but manually, and the link is my name. Could someone actually just post a bunch of spam pointing to a rival's site then go report it and that would be it?

Any updates on this?

First off would have to find out what promoting techniques could have caused all those sites to be deindexed, and try to follow the rules per what the search engines are looking for