"Your page has been blocked from our index because it does not meet
the quality standards necessary to assign accurate PageRank. Certain
actions such as cloaking, writing text in such a way that it can be
seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up pages/links
with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result in
permanent removal from our index. Please read our webmaster guidelines
for more information."
I have no idea why, I have not made any significant changes to the
site, and have been ranking #1 for several relevant keyword phrases
for several years. My site disappeared from the serps a while ago due
to my host being hacked and hidden spam links added to some of my
pages, but I changed hosts and the site came back. I can find no
evidence of hacking now.
Can someone look at my site and tell me if I'm doing something wrong?
> "Your page has been blocked from our index because it does not meet
> the quality standards necessary to assign accurate PageRank. Certain
> actions such as cloaking, writing text in such a way that it can be
> seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up pages/links
> with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result in
> permanent removal from our index. Please read our webmaster guidelines
> for more information."
> I have no idea why, I have not made any significant changes to the
> site, and have been ranking #1 for several relevant keyword phrases
> for several years. My site disappeared from the serps a while ago due
> to my host being hacked and hidden spam links added to some of my
> pages, but I changed hosts and the site came back. I can find no
> evidence of hacking now.
> Can someone look at my site and tell me if I'm doing something wrong?
If you've cleaned up the hacked content and taken measures to prevent
it in the future, I would recommend that you also submit a
reconsideration request through your Webmaster Tools account.
From my understanding he has already done this including a
reinclusion request awhile back when it was hacked. This appears to be
a different issue. I just did a walk-thru of the pages on the site in
the Lynx browser and found nothing inappropriate.
The only thing I could find was that he has a small network of
several sites that all interlink with eachother and atleast most of
them include a link exchange note on the footer. However, all the
sites he links to are relevant to the topic, are not excessive, and
since these are all on topic links that would be for the benefit of
his visitors we cannot be sure of his 'link exchange' intentions. So
now this guy must remove his links page just to get back into Google?
The links page which just so happens to be very resourceful and
complementary to the rest of his site's content. I could understand
if the links page was full of recripicated links that span many
different topics and have nothing to do with the site.
My view is that if Google banned his site just for interlinking with
a few other resourceful sites that add to his own site's content then
this is more of a case of Google bullying.
> If you've cleaned up the hacked content and taken measures to prevent
> it in the future, I would recommend that you also submit a
> reconsideration request through your Webmaster Tools account.
I don't know if it makes any difference, but I noticed that you had a
number of identical keyword and very similar description/titles. These
were both between pages on yours site and pages form other linked and
related sites. I understand that Google does not look at keywords, but
they were for content that you appear to not have on the page which
may look like spam to Google?
Should I remove a few links from the other sites? I hate to do that
because they were actually placed to be useful to the visitors. I'm
not married to the "for link exchange contact" if it is felt that is a
problem. Neither am I stuck on the keywords, I don't think Google
looks at them anyways and no longer add them to new sites.
Admittedly, some of the page titles were influenced by the desire to
rank well for certain keywords, but I thought that was just good SEO,
the titles are also relevent to the page content.
None of this really makes any sense to me. I thought I was going white
hat all the way.
wilderness wrote:
> I don't know if it makes any difference, but I noticed that you had a
> number of identical keyword and very similar description/titles. These
> were both between pages on yours site and pages form other linked and
> related sites. I understand that Google does not look at keywords, but
> they were for content that you appear to not have on the page which
> may look like spam to Google?
Hi Phil
I would definitely submit another reconsideration request - it might
be that there were still issues on your site when it was last
processed. I would mention the things you have mentioned here and
perhaps even link to this thread.
Hope it helps, good luck with your site!
John
PS Something else I noticed was that your forum uses "session-IDs."
This can be a bit of a problem so I would recommend looking into a way
of running the forum without requiring session-IDs for search engine
crawlers. This would however not prevent your site from being included
at all, it would just make it a bit harder to crawl the forum (in
other words, it's optional :-)).
JohnMu wrote:
> Hi Phil
> I would definitely submit another reconsideration request - it might
> be that there were still issues on your site when it was last
> processed. I would mention the things you have mentioned here and
> perhaps even link to this thread.
> Hope it helps, good luck with your site!
> John
> PS Something else I noticed was that your forum uses "session-IDs."
> This can be a bit of a problem so I would recommend looking into a way
> of running the forum without requiring session-IDs for search engine
> crawlers. This would however not prevent your site from being included
> at all, it would just make it a bit harder to crawl the forum (in
> other words, it's optional :-)).
