Banned from Google

[cindik]

Originally Posted by Wassercrats

Your back, I think, at least in a small way. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...te%3Aandilinks

Oh, wait.... what site is that No page there.

No tld. Strange.

[Wassercrats]

Oh, I forgot the TLD.

[Wassercrats]

Since this returns no results, maybe Google messed up www.andilinks.com and turned it into plain www.andilinks and then couldn't find any files when they were appended to that messed up URL so they eliminated it from their directory.

[Andilinks]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions and kind words, I am now awaiting a reply from Google which if/when it arrives will supposedly explain what the problems are.

Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Large numbers of links per page have appeared on Andilinks from the very beginning, even before being indexed by Google. This is more a feature of the older pages and while it may have affected ranking or SE results position it certainly never was cause for a ban. My more recent pages do have fewer links per page.

I am at the moment optimizing for Yahoo, (keywords) something that will help whether I get back into Google or not. I am confident that I will eventually get back in, at least partially.

Perhaps Andi is a victim of 302 redirect hijacking?

Yes, I've been hearing of these for some time, though I don't entirely understand how they work or what the remedy is. Again, I await Google's reply. If it is some technical problem such as this I would think they would have some clue...

Thanks again, I'll post progress here (soon, I hope).

It is Monday 9:00 am in Mountain View and I'm sure they are swamped with emails like mine, since this does seem to be a large scale ban. So it is much too soon to be giving up hope or even worrying.

Andi

[Andilinks]

... from our AdSense team passed your email on to our User Support team so we can assist you. Unfortunately, we are unable to send personal responses to all of the requests we receive to review individual website content. Websites can fall out of our index for many reasons, including penalization.
... Certain actions such as buying or selling links to increase a site's PageRank value or cloaking - writing text in such a way that it can be seen by search engines but not by users - can result in penalization. Please review our quality guidelines at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html for more information. If you identify problems with your website and make the changes necessary to comply with these guidelines, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are sorry that we cannot provide individual assistance at this time.

Regards,
The Google Team

Not exactly encouraging. I will be scouring my site design since I haven't knowingly broken rules. I do use certain text characters the same color as the background for spacing. Changing these to image spacers will require a major revamp, maybe I will trim out all the low-traffic pages. Whew!

Like I said, these design elements have been present for years, all of a sudden they get me banned.

Andi

[Andilinks]

And so I must undergo a major site-redesign without revenue not even assured that what I am doing will fix the problem.

Google has definitely fallen from favor with me.

Andi

[Juan G]

Originally Posted by Stecyk

Help! My Site Has Disappeared From Google!

On this article linked by Stecyk, we can read several of the possible explanations. For instance, on page 2, linking to bad neighborhoods.

It happens that good links become bad links when some people buy domains, do something wrong and get banned by Google. Therefore, it's good to check our links from time to time. I think you do it, but there are really many links on your directory.

(This is just an example of one of the many possibilities).

[Wassercrats]

Strictly following the guidelines is a good idea anyway. It still might have helped your website if this never happened, and you should have phased it in. It sounds like if you make a change or two and contact them again, you'll get a more personalized response.

[Andilinks]

Therefore, it's good to check our links from time to time.

True, but just checking for dead links has become a major chore. Checking for "bad neighborhoods" becomes prohibitive and I won't even know if the effort is paying off.

My website will become much less useful in order to get indexed. This is becoming a very huge problem, all because the Google search team "doesn't have time."

I think creating new websites as tests will be easier but with the sandbox and no revenue it also could become prohibitive.

Andi

[Andilinks]

The Andilinks website as it is now produces SOME revenue from Yahoo/MSN traffic so making wholesale changes there jeopardizes that flow with no assurance that it will satisfy Google.

Andi