Re-inclusion Request at Google

CaptainJSparrow · 2007-09-13, 03:25 PM

Probably so, Vivaldi. The thing is, we're fairly certain that our domain was at the very least linking to what google considers some bad sites, and possibly even identified as part of a link farm. We've corrected that and looked over the site with a fine toothed comb and are reasonably sure that it should be doing better. As far as we know the site meets all of google's guidelines so if they give adult sites consideration, then they should do something about it when they review our re-inclusion request.

Halfdeck · 2007-09-14, 04:19 AM

Several months ago, I left a comment on Matt Cutts blog with a note: "do not publish this comment." A few weeks later, I got an email from Google's spam team letting me know they read my comment and will look into it. Adam Lasnik also followed up with additional communication. At the end of the day, they didn't confirm or deny if a site in question was under a penalty - but since IMO Adam tends to be open about lack of penalties, I took the lack of confirmation in that case as evidence that there's a problem. The site in question hasn't yet recovered. The problem with this site in particular IMO had to do with linking practices Google doesn't like (nothing wrong with on-page content as far as I could tell).

2007-09-14, 04:19 AM	#2
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	Several months ago, I left a comment on Matt Cutts blog with a note: "do not publish this comment." A few weeks later, I got an email from Google's spam team letting me know they read my comment and will look into it. Adam Lasnik also followed up with additional communication. At the end of the day, they didn't confirm or deny if a site in question was under a penalty - but since IMO Adam tends to be open about lack of penalties, I took the lack of confirmation in that case as evidence that there's a problem. The site in question hasn't yet recovered. The problem with this site in particular IMO had to do with linking practices Google doesn't like (nothing wrong with on-page content as far as I could tell). __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2007-09-13, 03:25 PM	#1
CaptainJSparrow You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Louisiana Posts: 511	Probably so, Vivaldi. The thing is, we're fairly certain that our domain was at the very least linking to what google considers some bad sites, and possibly even identified as part of a link farm. We've corrected that and looked over the site with a fine toothed comb and are reasonably sure that it should be doing better. As far as we know the site meets all of google's guidelines so if they give adult sites consideration, then they should do something about it when they review our re-inclusion request.