My website AdvancedPortal.com has been banned from Google. I don't see
any reason for it to do so. I used a search engine submission tool to
submit my site to 100 search engines. All I can suspect is that that
tool did something which Google didn't like. Its been two months now
and I must get my site listed back. I want to find out how to do this.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 21 May 2003 13:16 PDT

You don't seem to be banned:

://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=AdvancedPortal%2Ecom

://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=www.AdvancedPortal.com

If these results reassure you, I'd be happy to post them as an answer.
 If not, could you let us know the specific problem you have noticed?

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 21 May 2003 13:46 PDT

Greetings, advcomm!

Can you describe what caused you to believe that your site has been
banned from Google? If we know what kind of change(s) you're seeing,
we might be able to explain why they happened.

Regards,

aceresearcher

It looks as if your main page has a Google pageranks of zero, even
though your other pages do not.

http://www.advancedportal.com/default.htm 

Perhaps this is why you think you are banned.

Did you recently change the url of your main page?  Perhaps Google has
not indexed it yet.

I recently submitted my site to about 50 directories using one of
those search tools.  I thought they were legitimate directories but
about a week later my pagerank dropped to zero for all pages on my
site.  (I'm assuming it was because of the submissions but I'm not
sure really)

Although, my site was still listed on google, search rankings dropped
considerably.  After a few months the pagerank went to 1.  I'm
guessing Google does not outright ban you for listing on free for all
sites etc..., but it does punish you.

p.s.  If they banned you for listing on FFA directories, everyone
would be listing their competitors to get them banned.