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12 years ago

Try this search query:

site:yoursite.com

If that brings nothing back, you've been deindexed. Go and check google webmaster tools.

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john5171 12 years ago

It says

Your search - site:____.org - did not match any documents.

Why would I get deindexed, I did not build any links and did not touch the site at all...
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Icematikx

12 years ago

Go and check google webmaster tools. You should have a message waiting if you've been deindexed.

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john5171 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Icematikx

Go and check google webmaster tools. You should have a message waiting if you've been deindexed.

I did not have webmaster tools before and just got it now. Will I get the message?
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- Icematikx 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by john5171
  
  I did not have webmaster tools before and just got it now. Will I get the message?
  
  yes sir you will.
  
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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Did you try both:

site:domain.com
site:www.domain.com

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SEO Power

12 years ago

Check your robots.txt file to confirm that you haven't accidentally blocked Google from spidering your website.

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john5171

12 years ago

This site used the same content as its "sister" site, which I thought would be fine, but no.

I got "pure spam" note. And rewrote the content and sent reconsideration request.

How long will that take and would it be automated?

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Icematikx

12 years ago

Originally Posted by john5171

This site used the same content as its "sister" site, which I thought would be fine, but no.

I got "pure spam" note. And rewrote the content and sent reconsideration request.

How long will that take and would it be automated?

Using duplicate content is pointless. Google only ranks one of them (which it thinks is the original source).

Reconsideration request can take 14-28 days usually in my experience. Sometimes quicker. Depends on the workload of the webmaster team.

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john5171

12 years ago

To those curious, my site was restored.

First reconsideration request I only changed the content, and it was rejected.

Second reconsideration attempt I removed most content and changed my wordpress theme, and the site is back.

Reconsideration took around 1 day for each attempt

Cheers

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by john5171

Second reconsideration attempt I removed most content and changed my wordpress theme, and the site is back.

So what are you left with?

Was the content the problem or was the old URLs tainted from spammy inbound links the problem?

Build out one or two of those old internal URLs/pages & see what happens, lol.

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john5171

12 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

So what are you left with?

Was the content the problem or was the old URLs tainted from spammy inbound links the problem?

Build out one or two of those old internal URLs/pages & see what happens, lol.

No I did not change the inbound links.

I removed the "spun" content and made it more human friendly. Then I changed the wordpress theme and fixed broken links to YouTube videos.

Thats all

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by john5171

No I did not change the inbound links.

I removed the "spun" content and made it more human friendly. Then I changed the wordpress theme and fixed broken links to YouTube videos.

Thats all

So all your old URLs (internal pages) are still intact?

What I'm getting at is, If you deleted the old internal pages (URLs) that might have had spammy links pointing at those old URLs/pages then those backlinks still exist but they're pointing at a 404 page.

It would be interesting to know If Google keeps track of tainted internal page URLs by storing each page link profile. Google did mention a few months back they were looking at page level rather than always looking at the entire domain.

I find it hard to believe Google would deindex a spun page just because it's spun. It must have been one horrible page. More likely Google was looking at the backlink profile for those pages. Then again I haven't seen your site.

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john5171

12 years ago

All the pages and links are still in place, nothing was deleted.

In the message I got they said there was a problem with the content or site structure, not with the links...

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by john5171

All the pages and links are still in place, nothing was deleted.

In the message I got they said there was a problem with the content or site structure, not with the links...

Are you sure your pages weren't blocking Google bot in your HTML source code (ex: noindex or noarchive)?

That would explain the comment about the site structure. Changing your theme might have removed a noindex or noarchive HTML tag.

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john5171

12 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Are you sure your pages weren't blocking Google bot in your HTML source code (ex: noindex or noarchive)?

That would explain the comment about the site structure. Changing your theme might have removed a noindex or noarchive HTML tag.

Ye I am sure

noindex and noarchive wouldn't result in a penalty anyways, why would it?

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by john5171

Ye I am sure

noindex and noarchive wouldn't result in a penalty anyways, why would it?

No it's not a penalty but it will still remove pages from the SERPs.

Originally Posted by john5171

This site used the same content as its "sister" site, which I thought would be fine, but no.

I got "pure spam" note. And rewrote the content and sent reconsideration request.

How long will that take and would it be automated?

I read this thread again, maybe scraping an entire site was the problem.

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geraldakim

12 years ago

Originally Posted by john5171

To those curious, my site was restored.

First reconsideration request I only changed the content, and it was rejected.

Second reconsideration attempt I removed most content and changed my wordpress theme, and the site is back.

Reconsideration took around 1 day for each attempt

Cheers

I am followed your steps for my site and given reconsideration request. Let us see what will happen??

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netanel23

12 years ago

Wait, you got a pure SPAM penalty and don't have spam links?

I'd revisit that as it sounds like you do have spam links pointed to your site. From what I have heard pure spam penalties are when just about everything about the site is spammy, from links to site itself.

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LuckyIMer

12 years ago

Originally Posted by netanel23

Wait, you got a pure SPAM penalty and don't have spam links?

I'd revisit that as it sounds like you do have spam links pointed to your site. From what I have heard pure spam penalties are when just about everything about the site is spammy, from links to site itself.

He had duplicated content which is the reason his website was banned. Duplicated content either lead to website penalization or ban.

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Kevin Maguire

12 years ago

I thought someone bumped a thread from 1997.

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patadeperro 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire

I thought someone bumped a thread from 1997.

That is what I call timeless mistakes
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wizzo85

12 years ago

I have seen websites disappear from search results. Just resubmit your website and you should see it back up soon.

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john5171 12 years ago

Several of my other PR sites disappeared recently,

Is it just me or is something going on?
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- yukon Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by john5171
  
  Several of my other PR sites disappeared recently,
  
  Is it just me or is something going on?
  
  It's just you.
  
  There's a connection between all your sites, maybe the first cloned site triggered a Google slapfest on all the connected domains.
  
  ...or you've lost a bunch of strong backlinks & the the pure spam issue is bad timing.
  
  Hard to say without seeing the domain or link profile.
  
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