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More options Aug 20 2007, 4:32 am

From: JLH

Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:32:32 -0700

Local: Mon, Aug 20 2007 4:32 am

Subject: Re: Violations of the Google webmaster guidelines

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A quick check points to this from the webmaster guidelines, "Use
robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-
generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search
engines."

Your links on the left hand menu point to autofilled search results,
letting crawlers follow them. You definitely should think about
making them static links to actual pages and blocking all search
results pages by robots.txt.

Tennis iCoach wrote:
> The website address is www.tennisicoach.com

> On Aug 19, 11:34 am, webado wrote:
> > Well then give the url so we can take a look and see what guideline
> > may have bene broken.

> > This kind of message ranges in meaning from site not respinding
> > adequately to Googlebot, to broken links, to hidden text, to spam
> > material, links farms and worse.

> > On Aug 18, 9:19 pm, Tennis iCoach wrote:

> > > I don't know what we am doing wrong. I've checked the guidelines and
> > > can't work it out.

> > > We have already requested a reconsideration.

> > > On Aug 19, 11:15 am, JLH wrote:

> > > > Stop violating the webmaster guidelines, then file a reconsideration
> > > > request.http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3...

> > > > On Aug 18, 7:58 pm, Tennis iCoach wrote:

> > > > > Our website was launched on 1st July 2007. I created a Google site map
> > > > > and uploaded it to the webmaster section.

> > > > > For some reason we get the following message.

> > > > > Pages on your site may not appear in Google search results pages due
> > > > > to violations of the Google webmaster guidelines.

> > > > > What do I have to do to fix this problem?- Hide quoted text -

> > > - Show quoted text -

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