Hi,

I have 3 web-sites in Google :
www.villaspaphoscyprus.com
www.cypruspaphosvillas.com
www.cyprusbeachvillas.com 

All of them were indexed to Google search engine. 
In addition the www.villaspaphoscyprus.com  were in the directory but
now is removed

I'm also a member of Google adword with my web-site
www.villaspaphoscyprus.com

Yesterday (9th Sept 2003) suddenly all my web-sites above were removed
from Google.
Can you tell me please why?

Thank you in advamce
Zacharias Papadopoulos

Web-master

Hi, 

It looks like your websites are in about 70 different link farms. This
is not a good sign. Your page still has it's page rank, but link farms
are a black flag in the Google search engine and this may be the
reason you are popping off the listings.

://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=active&q=villaspaphoscyprus.%2Bcom&btnG=Google+Search

As you have found out, having your site in 70 different link farms is
not helping your PageRank either, on the index or not. My page rank is
5 and there are only 2 sites pointing to me. Content is a big factor
and the content of those that are linking to you is even a greater
factor. You have over 70 and still only have a 5 in PageRank.

I second much of the commentary' below. And also second the idea that
your PageRank will probably disappear soon as well.

The Directory is a human effort, done by human hands. In other words,
if you were removed from the Directory, which is a mirror of DMOZ,
then someone physically took a look at your site and removed it. This
may be because of the link farms, and it may be that your sites have
very little to offer except the advertisements on them.

Your sites are also lacking a robots.txt file, which helps a great
deal in being indexed. I would get one together as soon as possible.
Clean up the pages and add some helpful content to visitors other than
"buy now" wording.

Reciprocal links are fine, as long as they are from websites which
have good content on them and a good PageRank themselves. If you visit
many of the pages that you are currently listed on, the link farms,
you will see that most of them have already lost their PageRank
completely or have a PageRank of less than 2. That is not good for
you, even if this wasn't happening. In the basic theory of things, you
might have a higher PageRank if none of these were linked to you.

I see that you have also started your own Reciprocal Link farm as
well, and that many of these pages, which are linking to you, are
really yours.

You may want to take a look at these pages for further reference. :

Google "Use to be listed"
://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html#usedtobe
"However, certain actions such as cloaking, writing text that can be
seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up pages/links
with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result in
permanent removal from our index. "

Google Webmaster Guide
://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html

Google Facts and Fiction
://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html

Google Guidlines
://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

Good Day zaczac-ga,


Did the content of your website change lately at all?  Maybe changed
meta tags?  Was there anything different on the pages you provided,
then what we are seeing now? I have reason to believe you have been
black listed for some reason, but I am not 100% sure. Why do I say
that?  Well, doing a search for www.villaspaphoscyprus.com comes up
with the message:

Sorry, no information is available for the URL
www.villaspaphoscyprus.com
Find web pages that contain the term "www.villaspaphoscyprus.com"


Normally, you should see this message when searching for a URL that
does not exist in Google's database:

Sorry, no information is available for the URL
www.villaspaphoscyprus.ca
If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the
following link: www.villaspaphoscyprus.ca
Find web pages that contain the term "www.villaspaphoscyprus.ca"


Note the option to click on the link. For what ever reason, Google
does not seem to want visitors going to your website from the Google
index.

If the difference in the two messages is not what I think it is and am
suggesting above, it could be that your pages were simply dropped from
the index temporarily.  This can happen when indexes are updated,
swapped, and combined. Usually within a couple of weeks or so, you
would show up in the indexes again.

I can give you a list of things that can get you banned from Google,
so you can compare if you have broken any rules with your past
versions of the page... but I am not sure anyone can give you a
definite answer as of now.

On the positive side, you are still holding a PR5/10 on all pages,
which is a good sign for now.  It could mean that you have not been
black listed... of course it could also mean that the PR index has not
been updated, and when the next update has taken place you will show
up as a 0/10.

Sorry I could not be of more help... best of luck to you.


Regards,
slawek-ga