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 More options Jul 10 2007, 12:30 pm
From: alkenmrs
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:30:20 -0700
Local: Tues, Jul 10 2007 12:30 pm
Subject: Two weeks in Google Jail and No Chance of Parole it would seem!!
At least it seems that way to me!!

Two weeks ago my ten+ year old site at http://www.alkenmrs.com was
totally deindexed from Google with no warning.

During this time, and with the help of some wise people from this
forum, who have gone through the site looking for anything that could
have caused this deindexing, I have also posted two spam reports and
two reinclusion requests. Neither seem to have had anything done about
them.

The site has had a few fixes put in place although none were bad
enough to cause a total deindexing.

It was discovered that parts of the site had been proxy hijacked with
some of my pages coming up under the proxy URL. Steps were taken to
block access to the proxy and it's associated IP's. Furthermore, I
contacted both the proxy owner and the hosting company and the server
seems to have been taken down. Pages from my site still show up un
Google but only in the cache. The first spam and reinclusion requests
were filed in respect of the proxy.

Other 'fixes' put in include 301 redirects fro the www vs non www of
the site. Disallows in robots.txt for the likes of multiple Privacy
Statements, Contact Us annd thank you pages. The site is set up with a
number of sub directories each containing themed minisites with each
one having it's own Privacy and Contact pages.

There was also one orphaned page that had been on the site since day
one (10 years ago). That page has been removed and 301 redirected to
another url within the site.
I also discovered a couple of orphaned links within the index page
code. They were links to other pages within the site and ended up in
the HTML due to continually shifting things about on the page with
Xsitepro. However, they have been removed and page code checked on
other pages throughout the site.

I could at least hold my hands up to those problems and posted a
further reinclusion request confessing my sins, if indeed that is
considered such a hideous crime.

So here i am today, with no listings whatsoever in Google and it would
seem the chances of getting back in are becoming less and less as each
day passes.

During this time, Googlebot has continued to fetch all sitemaps on a
daily basis and the PR on all pages has remained the same. The only
thing that hasn't happened is any crawling. The last crawl date,
according to webmaster tools was June 25.

I am really at the point now of not knowing what else I can do to get
the site reindexed. I am however seriously considering shifting some
of the minisites in the sub directories out to their own domains,
putting in some 301 redirects and resubmitting the new sites. Not sure
if that is a good idea or not but I really can't see another way out
of this nightmare.

Any of you wise people here got any better ideas because I have run
dry!!

Alan


 
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