Main Index Page of Client is Deindexed

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All his inner pages are indexed, only his main page is deindexed. This is a site I haven't worked on myself yet btw. He told me he did 1500 BMR posts in the past.

Any idea what we can do to get his main page back?

SEOMoz isn't showing much links anymore, most blogs are obvious deleted and such but guess Google ain't forget, he also got a message for unnatural inbound links.

He already filed a reconsideration request and got an answer:



Dear site owner or webmaster of hxxp://site.com/,

We received a request from a site owner to reconsider hxxp://site.com/ for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

We've reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines.
In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from hxxp://site.com/ may not appear or may not rank as highly in Google's search results, or may otherwise be considered to be less trustworthy than sites which follow the quality guidelines.

If you wish to be reconsidered again, please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines. When such changes have been made, please visit

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...deration?hl=en and resubmit your site for reconsideration.

If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team
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  • If the main page is gone, its possible the rest will follow, I saw a similar thing happen for a client and Google was as usual, giving the same responce. The unnatural link warning didnt happen for them, they got a quality issues related one. You might find if its a large site to simply start from scratch is the best option, and stay away from blog networks. They might have gone a bit underground, but google catches on quick to manipulation.

    The client main index was taken down, other pages were stil there, about a month later it was all gone. We found that Google only considereing to re-index after the whole site was changed, new design, content, and a much more authoritative site. IF they are talking about quality guidelines, then check out the site in more detail and see whos interest it is trying to serve, if its not the customer or readers, then Google isnt going to help.

    Edit-
    Its a business dilema: you can either try to get reindex and keep that penalty history, or start with a fresh site, new design on a new domain - and build up from there with a clean slate. Both take a lot of work
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  • There really isn't enough information to go off of. I would take a close look at his backlinks, and use more than one backlink checker. You want to see if he still has existing links to his homepage in obvious bad neighborhoods.

    This is an obvious one, but I would also look for any crawl errors, noindex tags, that kind of stuff. Check the .htaccess file as well as robots.txt file.

    How long has it been since the homepage was deindexed?
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    Thanks I'll pass it on to him, not sure how long the homepage is deindexed, I think quiet a few weeks cause he already got answer to his reconsideration request.

    I took a close look at the site and he had a whole bunch of footer links for internal pages so I advised him to remove those as it looked pretty spammy to me.

    His back link pattern doesn't look to unnatural though, I checked it. Although the message doesn't seem to be focused much on back links cause of this:

    "please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines"
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    I've had a few people ask for help after having pages deindexed, at least 5 different sites/people running a noindex tag. Usually an SEO plugin problem.
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      EDIT: Link removed
  • ^^Nik0, tell them to remove Adsense ads from any pages that are considered to be "violating the quality guidelines" or risk losing their Adsense account as well.

    It was almost 100% a manual review. Not much you can do really, this could be a timed penalty... they won't re-index you through GWT until links are gone and they obviously still see them. The site looks fine to me.
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      Thing is we have no idea which pages seem to be violating their guidelines, but I'll pass it on anyway.

      Doesn't seem to be about back links cause they said this:

      "please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines"

      What a bunch of .... at Google.
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  • I guess you need to do a in depth research from the scratch... I mean from the fundamentals!!
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    Main Index Page of Client is Deindexed

    All his inner pages are indexed, only his main page is deindexed. This is a site I haven't worked on myself yet btw. He told me he did 1500 BMR posts in the past. Any idea what we can do to get his main page back?