Ever bought a domain that was banned in google
 

Anyone ever have this happen? I bought a domain and built a little niche free site on it with the intention of getting a little search engine and link list traffic to it.

It's been up for months and it was still PR0, and I couldn't figure out why. Was even listed at some of the big linklists.

So just for shits and giggles I checked the domain at archive.org and much to my disappointment I see that the domain was previously used for search engine spamming.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...ndjobpics.net/

I searched all over google to see if there was something I could do, and I stumbled across a page where you could ask for a domain to be reviewed to be reincluded in their index.

So I filled it out, got an autoresponder from google, and now patiently I wait. Anyone ever done this successfully before? Or once a domain is banned is it gone for good?

I have heard of people getting sites unbanned thru that form, as I recall it took a few weeks to several months for the process. Most of the unbanneds I know of were mainstream, the impression I got was that they often ignore requests to get adult domains unbanned.

I haven't tried it myself, altho I really should, I have a few old banned domains.

Please let us know how the process works for you, I would be interested and I'm sure others would also.

I have....I didn't do anything (email google etc..)....and it cleared itself after 1.2 yrs....

XPorn

Always worth doing this sort of check first...

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...ndjobpics.net/

when picking up a new domain.. especially if it is off a deleted dom list.

The re-inclusion system does work... and it can take a couple of months... We got a domain re-included and its done well since.

DD

Thanks guys. I guess there's nothing else to do but wait.

|bananna|

Well, I received this reply. I guess that doesn't look so good for me.

Hi ****,

Thank you for your note. Unfortunately, we are unable to send personal
responses to all of the requests we receive to review individual website
content. Websites can fall out of our index for many reasons, including
penalization.

If you are concerned that your website may have been penalized, please
review our quality guidelines at
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html . Please do not hesitate
to contact us if you identify problems with your website and make the
changes necessary to comply with these guidelines.

We are sorry that we cannot provide individual assistance at this time.

Regards,
The Google Team

We get emails from a search engine advertising department every so often.

Next time they email, I'm gonna send this back...

Hi ****,

Thank you for your note. Unfortunately, we are unable to send personal
responses to all of the requests we receive to advertise on search engines.

If you are concerned that your search engine spam may have been penalized, please review our spam guidelines at
http://www.******** . Please do not hesitate to contact us if you identify problems with your spam and make the changes necessary to comply with these guidelines.

We are sorry that we cannot provide individual assistance at this time.

Regards,
The ******** Team

That fits with what I heard about before, which is that adult domains are often ignored. Altho I have personally seen mainstream domains also get that letter back on the first request.

Now, I gather that you can pursue it past that point (I don't know the method, I'd have to look it up), and keep sending letters, and they switch the case to a different part of the google bureacracy. DD probably would know something about this part of the process.

Now, there is another theory on how to recover a permanent zero, which is that if the domain is dropped and repurchased it sometimes regains pagerank. If that theory is true your domain might "self-recover", and all you have to do is wait.

Let us know if it self-recovers.

I have 2 domains that I bought from a dropped domains list about 18 months ago. Each had exisiting PR and backlinks, and they did well for about 6 months... then bang! They both were removed from google and had PR0's

I wasnt too stressed about it... was a risk I took, so I removed the majority of links I had to them (in case their banning somehow effected my other established sites)

I pretty much forgot about them... then 2 weeks ago when google updated... both have been reindexed and regained their original PR's

so even though I did nothing to help them out, they did eventually recover... took about 12 months I am guessing

Well I emailed them again with a little more detail and I got this back:
--------------------------------

Thank you for your reply. We understand your concern and have passed your
message on to our engineering team for further investigation.

We appreciate your patience.

Regards,
The Google Team
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I did this search in google and it looks like there are still incoming links from some spam pages. I guess at the very least I should throw up a 404 page in case I am still getting hits from that stuff.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr...jobpics.net%22