> To find a few more pages.

> On Jan 18, 1:12 pm, Geoff Fox wrote:

> > As I reported to this group a few weeks ago, I have been removed from
> > Google's index.  It happened within a few hours of reporting weird
> > search results from my site to this group.  No good deed goes
> > unpunished!

> > Here's my original post:http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_...

> > I've gone through my site, looking for anything that might upset
> > Google.  It's tough, because my site (mainly a personal blog with over
> > 2,600 entries and 3,000 comments) plus a photo gallery, was clean to
> > begin with.

> > Some of you found a few spammy comments which I missed when they were
> > originally posted.  They've been expunged. and I appreciate your
> > help.  Still, that's a handful of pages out of thousands.

> > It would be easier to search and purge if I had Google to use.  Oops.

> > My journey for redemption continues.  I went looking through the
> > webmaster tools and found the list of keywords "In your site's
> > content."  Uh oh.  Problems here.

> > Many of the words are spammy.  But they're not on my site and never
> > were!  There are lots of inbound spammy keywords as well.  However,
> > when I type link:geofffox.com there are just 'normal' non-spam
> > websites.

> > I'm really confused.

> > The search results (site:geofffox.com) I saw, which prompted my
> > original posting looked like they were on my site, but they weren't.
> > They could only be reached by clicking the Google link.  Typing the
> > same URLs by hand produced 404 errors.

> > I searched my server.  The spammy content wasn't there.

> > I am confused and I am upset.  I think I'm being penalized for
> > something totally out of my control.  I suspect, though I don't have
> > the technical expertise to know for sure, this is a Google problem,
> > not a 'me' problem.  I've still begged for forgiveness using the
> > reconsideration form.

> > Is there anyone here who can explain what is going on?