I've recently updated my web page (after it had been dormant for a few
years(just a blank page with a redirect to another site)).
Its been up for a month or 2 now, but for some reason "what googlebot
sees" is all pornographically related. I've never hosted porn on my
site, yet there is a list of 100 terrible keywords that don't seem to
be changing. I think this is giving me a terrible page rank because
when I search very specific terms for my page it comes up dead last
out of 5 results.
If you are sure they old pages are gone, I'd file a reconsideration
request to make sure they are not associating your domain with
whatever used to be on there.
> I've recently updated my web page (after it had been dormant for a few
> years(just a blank page with a redirect to another site)).
> Its been up for a month or 2 now, but for some reason "what googlebot
> sees" is all pornographically related. I've never hosted porn on my
> site, yet there is a list of 100 terrible keywords that don't seem to
> be changing. I think this is giving me a terrible page rank because
> when I search very specific terms for my page it comes up dead last
> out of 5 results.
wow. Those pages are not there anymore as the current pages are on a
new host. I never knew they existed.
The hosting must have been hacked? What happened with the site is I
created new content on testroete.com then had my hosting move the
content to a new domain. They just duplicated the content with out
deleting the old hosting. Since testroete.com was still showing the
same content I deleted it all and created a page to forward to the new
domain and ignored it for 3 years? During that time it must have been
hacked and it just sat there. I should have removed the name servers
in my dotster account.
Aren't reconsideration requests just for sites that have been banned
from google? I'm still listed in google, but coming up dead last and
my keywords are wrong.
"If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or it's
performing more poorly than it once did (and you believe that it does
not violate our webmaster guidelines), you can ask Google to
reconsider your site."
Not just for banned sites anymore, that was the now defunct
reinclussion request.
> wow. Those pages are not there anymore as the current pages are on a
> new host. I never knew they existed.
> The hosting must have been hacked? What happened with the site is I
> created new content on testroete.com then had my hosting move the
> content to a new domain. They just duplicated the content with out
> deleting the old hosting. Since testroete.com was still showing the
> same content I deleted it all and created a page to forward to the new
> domain and ignored it for 3 years? During that time it must have been
> hacked and it just sat there. I should have removed the name servers
> in my dotster account.
> Aren't reconsideration requests just for sites that have been banned
> from google? I'm still listed in google, but coming up dead last and
> my keywords are wrong.
When you file a reconsideration request with Google, they are going to
check out a couple of things: that you mended any violations of their
webmaster guidelines, and that you’re not going to replicate the same
violations. If you honestly consider that your hosting was hacked,
then try to briefly explain it to them, and tell them what you have
done to remedy the problem. Always show your good faith.
Read this post and you’ll get a better idea of what a Google re-
inclusion requests involves:
> wow. Those pages are not there anymore as the current pages are on a
> new host. I never knew they existed.
> The hosting must have been hacked? What happened with the site is I
> created new content on testroete.com then had my hosting move the
> content to a new domain. They just duplicated the content with out
> deleting the old hosting. Since testroete.com was still showing the
> same content I deleted it all and created a page to forward to the new
> domain and ignored it for 3 years? During that time it must have been
> hacked and it just sat there. I should have removed the name servers
> in my dotster account.
> Aren't reconsideration requests just for sites that have been banned
> from google? I'm still listed in google, but coming up dead last and
> my keywords are wrong.
JLH and juan.manuel have already sent you in the right direction by
pointing out that your site may have been hacked in the past and that
you should file a reconsideration request. Although it sounds like
you've removed the hacked content, I only wanted to jump in to point
you to a helpful blog post one of my colleagues, Nathan, recently
wrote for the Webmaster Central blog. Since hacked sites are becoming
increasingly common, check out the post for measures you can take to
ensure it doesn't happen again:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hack...
Finally, the data of "What Googlebot sees" is probably reflective of
the time when your site was hacked. Since it sounds like switching to
a new server has removed the hacked content, in future crawls
Googlebot will not see that content, assuming that it doesn't appear
elsewhere on your site.
> When you file a reconsideration request with Google, they are going to
> check out a couple of things: that you mended any violations of their
> webmaster guidelines, and that you’re not going to replicate the same
> violations. If you honestly consider that your hosting was hacked,
> then try to briefly explain it to them, and tell them what you have
> done to remedy the problem. Always show your good faith.
> Read this post and you’ll get a better idea of what a Google re-
> inclusion requests involves:
> > wow. Those pages are not there anymore as the current pages are on a
> > new host. I never knew they existed.
> > The hosting must have been hacked? What happened with the site is I
> > created new content on testroete.com then had my hosting move the
> > content to a new domain. They just duplicated the content with out
> > deleting the old hosting. Since testroete.com was still showing the
> > same content I deleted it all and created a page to forward to the new
> > domain and ignored it for 3 years? During that time it must have been
> > hacked and it just sat there. I should have removed the name servers
> > in my dotster account.
> > Aren't reconsideration requests just for sites that have been banned
> > from google? I'm still listed in google, but coming up dead last and
> > my keywords are wrong.
