Request for Question Clarification by
serenata-ga
on
10 Apr 2004 07:24 PDT
Hi Kusultimate ~
Only Google knows if they have banned your site, and as a rule, they
won't discuss specific sites,
"Your page was manually removed from our index, because
it did not conform with the quality standards necessary
to assign accurate PageRank. We will not comment on the
individual reasons a page was removed ..." [From Google's
"My Web Pages Are Not Currently Listed"]
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html#usedtobe
I find it interesting that you assume your site has been banned and
not just "missing", such as when your site may not have been available
during the last web crawl,
"If your page does not appear at all, here are some other
possible explanations.
* Your site may not have been reachable when we tried to
crawl it because of network or hosting problems. When
this happens, we retry multiple times, but if the site
cannot be crawled, it will not be listed in our current
index. If it was a transient problem, your site will
likely show up in the next index, which will be completed
in a few weeks."
or
" A technical glitch on our side may have caused us to
'miss' your site. In crawling more than 3 billion pages
every few weeks, our system experiences hiccups from
time to time. Again, this is a transient problem, and
your site will likely show up in the next index.
Please be patient with us during this period, as we
are not able to modify our index by hand to add sites
missed in this way."
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html#usedtobe
If your site is being crawled or visited by the Googlebot, the chances
are very good a glitch happened, and that your site hasn't been
banned, but has gone missing.
A search for your domain, www.kellysultimatesports.com, returns the
following results:
"Sorry, no information is available for the URL
www.kellysultimatesports.com
* If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking
on the following link: www.kellysultimatesports.com
* Find web pages that contain the term
"www.kellysultimatesports.com"
And clicking on the link for "find web pages that contain the term
..." returns over 1100 results.
Google lists reasons it may remove your site from its index in its
Webmaster Guidelines,
"Quality Guidelines - Basic principles:
* Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don't
deceive your users, or present different content to
search engines than you display to users.
* Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings.
A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable
explaining what you've done to a website that competes
with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help
my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
* Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase
your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid
links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web
as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those
links.
* Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages,
check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing
resources and violate our terms of service. Google does
not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold?
that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.
Quality Guidelines - Specific recommendations:
* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
* Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don't send automated queries to Google.
* Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
* Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains
with substantially duplicate content.
* Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines,
or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate
programs with little or no original content.
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Have you engaged in any of those practices? Doorway pages, bad
neighborhood linking, automatically checking your ranking, multiple
domains with the same content (I wasn't able to find any using search
techniques, but that doesn't mean they're there). If so, it may well
be that your site has been banned.
Lastly, have you considered all those sites, directories, etc., that
contain links to your pages? There is some anecdotal evidence that
Google has significantly reduced the value (or weight) of links to
your site from pages that are nothing more than a list of links. I
must say that some of the links to your site are a stretch (for
example, travel sites, cell phone cites, etc.)
Considering that a random check of a couple dozen of the pages that
contain the term "www.kellysultimatesports.com" are nothing more than
a page full of links and advertisements, some relevant to your site's
content, some not, Google "could" (emphasizing the word *could*) have
considered those links irrelevant and therefore your site's ranking
might have dropped considerably. But even anecdotally, I haven't seen
such links causing a ban from Google's index, only a penalty in drop
of search engine ranking.
I gave you the above information in order to extract an answer to
these questions, which in turn will better help answer your question.
1. Why do you assume your web site has been banned?
2. Is the Googlebot currently crawling your site on a regular
basis?
3. Have you engaged in any of the practices that Google specifically
lists as a reason to be dropped form its index?
4. Are all those links listed in 'contain the term' affiliate links
do a majority of those produce income to the site linking to your
if a sale is generated?
5. Have you used automatic rank checking software?
6. Are you a member of a link exchange or link farm? (I didn't find
evidence of this, since I couldn't find even a single link FROM\
your site, even though I didn't check every single page
on your site.
7. Have you made any significant changes to your site that isn't
immediately evident by checking it against a cached version?
In order to help answer your question, the answers to the above
questions will help to determine if this is merely a glitch or if
there is a reason your site may be banned. If it has been banned,
perhaps we can help correct the problem and get your site reinstated.
Lastly, while you do have a listing in DMOZ.org, performing a search
for your domain, www.kellysultimatesports.com, with or without the
"www" produces no results. That is unusual, too. As a rule, if you are
listed in DMOZ, your site can be found by a search on your domain. I
have no idea what this signifies, but it is an anomaly with DMOZ.
I'll await the answers to the question, and perhaps we can determine
what the problem is.
Thank you,
Serenata
Google Answers Researcher
