How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
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How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
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Re: How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
#2I can't judge if you broke the rules or not but not showing up on Google's SERPs is terrifying and a stark reminder on how dependent we've become on Google traffic.
Re: How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
#3I can't judge if you broke the rules or not but not showing up on Google's SERPs is terrifying and a stark reminder on how dependent we've become on Google traffic.
I included an image of my adwords account. The ad had been running for years(albeit infrequently due to very low budget), and I had not touched it since creating it.
I checked after this all happened, and there were several warnings from adwords, but nothing from webmaster tools. I simply ignored the adwords warnings as I was not actively using the account and figured they were just disabling ads. If I had know these were the consequences, I would have just deleted my adwords account.
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#4They usually change policy, or enforce existing ones before an algo update that doesn't prove any connection in you case and it's not like they are dependent on your ad expenditure.
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#5Just out of curiosity, if only 30% of your results are from organic search, why did your hits drop by more than 30% after you stopped getting organic search hits?
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#6Just out of curiosity, if only 30% of your results are from organic search, why did your hits drop by more than 30% after you stopped getting organic search hits?
that is the google analytics for just organic traffic from google. the site gets ~1000 visitors a day.
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#7Another great example of Google randomly removing sites based on flimsy or nor evidence. The fact they don't give you a chance to plead their case is pretty scary.
My hunch is one of your competitors got the site taken down. I've had a few clients who had their competitors file complaints with Google, or inform them they were using black hat SEO to get on the first page of the SERPS. In one case they were successful, but I had the site back up in less than 24 hour,s so it wasn't a huge deal.
It sounds like it might be an ongoing issue and are not going to put your site back in the SERPS for a while. I feel for you brother.
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#8Google's definition of a bridge page:
http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
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#9Dropping out of the organic results sounds like a result of the Panda update (http://searchengineland.com/official-google-panda-2-3-update...)
My best guess is that you'll need to include some additional 'unique content' on the site to get it back in the listings. At the moment the Google crawler will see not a whole lot of text, quite a few Javascript buttons and some links, and will probably flag it as low quality.
It may be a bit of a hassle, but may be worth adding a kind of 'interesting/unique filler items' blog to the site to increase the content to links/js ratio.
Re: How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
#10I can't judge if you broke the rules or not but not showing up on Google's SERPs is terrifying and a stark reminder on how dependent we've become on Google traffic.
Panda, too, did screw a lot of small businesses as well while promotion the likes of Walmart, Youtube and Bestbuy. Google's coffers are full though http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/technology/google-earnings...