Hi:

I'm a volunteer for:

http://www.resistinc.org/

We think we've been banned, since we get no results for searches
with site:resistinc.org

We have reviewed the webmaster guidelines and cannot think of
how we might have vioated any of them. We'd appreciate any
feedback or guideance about how to determine what might be
wrong and/or how to proceed.

My site appears to have the same problem.  http://howtogetahead.net

have you found out why?

Glen,

Do you have Google sitemaps set up?

If not maybe a good time to make a sitemap and submit to Google.

The sitemaps console will tell you if you are banned.

Your site does seem to have dissappeared out of the index, although
your backlinks are showing.

Needs a Googler to look for you I think.

Best of luck with it

Richard

Hi Red:

No; in fact, I just found out about them while researching this
problem.

That's a great tip. I'll discuss adding a sitemap with the site owner.

Hope they chime in. ;}

Thanks!

What's the purpose of this font:1px javascript code that displays
hidden links to irrelevant sites (e.g. "babel fish translation", "bronx
bankruptcy lawyer", "hip hop cartel", "winston furniture"...)?

<script>document.write('<ma' + 'rq' + 'uee wid' + 'th=1 height=1><fo' +
'nt style="col' + 'or:#000' + '000;fon' + 't-size:1px">')</script>
<li><a
href="http://www.resistinc.org/babel-fish-translation.dhtml">babel fish
translation</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/bar-gaithersburg-pub.dhtml">bar
gaithersburg pub</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.resistinc.org/bronx-bankruptcy-lawyer.dhtml">bronx
bankruptcy lawyer</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.resistinc.org/discografica-independiente-nueva.dhtml">discografica
independiente nueva</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.resistinc.org/domestic-cleaning-services.dhtml">domestic
cleaning services</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/gurnee-library.dhtml">gurnee
library</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/hip-hop-cartel.dhtml">hip hop
cartel</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/javier-martinez.dhtml">javier
martinez</a><br>

<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/john-cobb.dhtml">john
cobb</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/kelly-palmer.dhtml">kelly
palmer</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/mini-sd-2gb.dhtml">mini sd
2gb</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.resistinc.org/odenton-md-home-for-sale.dhtml">odenton
md home for sale</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/philly-citysearch.dhtml">philly
citysearch</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/product-supplement.dhtml">product
supplement</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.resistinc.org/ventura-high-school.dhtml">ventura high
school</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/winston-furniture.dhtml">winston
furniture</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.resistinc.org/recindex.php">online
resistinc.org</a><br><li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/afton-chemical.dhtml">afton
chemical</a><br>

<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/biografia-de-federico-garcia-lorca.dhtml">biografia
de federico garcia lorca</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/brewster-ny-honda.dhtml">brewster
ny honda</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/camdenton-contractor.dhtml">camdenton
contractor</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.public-science.org/casper-toyota.dhtml">casper
toyota</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.public-science.org/credo-petroleum.dhtml">credo
petroleum</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/dont-have-i-love-lover.dhtml">dont
have i love lover</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.public-science.org/drawn-horse.dhtml">drawn
horse</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/high-shooting-venice.dhtml">high
shooting venice</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/home-for-sale-beaverton.dhtml">home
for sale beaverton</a><br>

<li><a href="http://www.public-science.org/hostal-madrid.dhtml">hostal
madrid</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.public-science.org/kevin-powell.dhtml">kevin
powell</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/non-piercing-body-jewelry.dhtml">non
piercing body jewelry</a><br>
<li><a href="http://www.public-science.org/spirit-movie.dhtml">spirit
movie</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/suffolk-community-college-brentwood.dhtml">suffolk
community college brentwood</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/yahoo-game-back-door.dhtml">yahoo
game back door</a><br>
<li><a
href="http://www.public-science.org/recindex.php">public-science.org
index</a><br>
<script>document.write('</' + 'fo' + 'nt>' + '</' + 'mar' +
'quee>')</script>

BTW, I got that from MSN cache, dated 10/20/2006 (today's 10/25/2006):

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=4168773605629&lang=en-US&mkt=en-...

Is your site cloaking as well?

Good find Halfdeck.

They don't appear to be cloaking to Googlebot useragent so maybe this
has since been removed.

Thank you for providing that information.

I know what cloaking is, but I'm not sure I understand
the point of your question.

While looking into this yesterday afternoon, I discovered some PHP
files on the site that appear to have been placed there illegitimately.

I removed those, but it's still too early to say that the site has been
"cleaned up." I am working on that.

To state what I hope is obvious: neither the owners of this site nor
I had knowledge of the fact that the website had been hijacked into
serving these advertisements.

In defense of the organization that owns this site, I will say that
like
many small nonprofits, they cannot afford in-house tech support.
In my own defense, I will say that I am not in charge of the day-
to-day operation of this website; I responded to a call for help.

We appreciate the information that has been provided, and will of
course appreciate any further constructive suggestions about how
to proceed.

Remove the offending content.
Try to figure out how this happened so that you can stop any
re-occurrence.
Send a reinclusion request outlining what happened and what steps you
took to fix the issues.

I'm sure Google will understand and re-index the site.

Wow, as someone new to putting up websites, I learn more disturbing
stuff everyday!  I just found out about Google webmaster yesterday, and
immediately signed up and got a site map put up.  I'm not even sure
what a site map is/does, but this group helped me to know I needed one
right away.

As to the topic of this post, its great that you guys were able to help
the original poster with their issue.  Is there a 'webmastering for
newbies' type checklist out there of things to check or tools that can
do it on a regular basis??

Thanks again, I'll keep on reading and learning!