How To Get Back Into Google
How To Get A Google Ban Lifted
By Esoos Bobnar
www.searchenginehelp.com
Originally Published: February, 2005
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How To Get Back Into Google
So, you've done a search in Google for your domain name and for strings of unique text from several of your pages and you've found nothing. You can definitively say that your site has been deleted from Google's index. Now, how do you convince Google to let you back in?
Follow these steps...
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Track down and eliminate every possible piece of spam. You want your site to be absolutely spotless. Read Google's
Webmaster Guidelines
and make sure that your site conforms
to the letter.
Remember, you'll be asking for a human reviewer from Google to personally inspect every detail of your site. If they find anything remotely objectionable they won't only reject your request but will also likely remember you for having wasted their time! ...and your chances of ever getting back into Google will be drastically reduced.
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Once your site is ready, send an email to
help@google.com
with the words
Re-inclusion request
in the subject line of your email.
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Then you wait.
If your site was accidentally removed through an innocent mistake (like a faulty robots.txt file) or otherwise by no real fault of your own, then you'll probably be re-included fairly quickly – usually within a week or two and almost certainly by the time of the next monthly update.
However, if you were intentionally banned by Google for
pushing-the-envelope
, then you could be waiting a long time – sometimes as long as two or three months. As you might suspect, Google typically receives a large number of re-inclusion requests and each site requires a fairly detailed analysis to insure conformance to standards.
If this is the case and you suspect that your site may be exiled for an extended period, it might make good sense to simply start over with a new website and a new domain name. This means you'll also need to start rebuilding your incoming links from scratch and you'll be faced with reconstructing the name recognition your old site may have had with customers.
Of course, most online businesses have too much invested in their existing domain name to abandon it and start over. But, it
is
an option you may want to consider if it looks like your chances of ever getting back into Google are slim.
Avoid Putting 'All Your Eggs' in One Basket
Remember, as stated above,
a complete ban from Google is pretty rare. In most cases, a glitch on either
your
site or Google's is responsible for a site dropping from Google's index – and generally the site will return to the index before long and often at the time of the next index-update.
On the other hand, if you
have
truly been banned for bad behavior, Google is often vague about the exact reason why. And, it can be challenging to get back into their good graces.
The wisdom of depending on a single search engine to keep a company's online profits rolling is dubious. If your only source for sales is, say, Google, then you are either
brand-new-in-the-business
or else you've neglected to incorporate foundational concepts for building your business. Remember that SE marketing is
one
very good source of revenue but one that must be integrated with an overall approach that incorporates a
variety
of sound marketing strategies in general.
Always strive to establish a customer base which generates consistent streams of income through referral and repeat purchases. By building your business on a sound foundation of satisfied and referral customers you can, if you have to, absorb the setback of being "deleted" at Google without losing the biz.
Here's to the good life,
Esoos Bobnar - Technical Analyst
Planet Ocean Communications
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Editor's Note:
See also:
Banned By Yahoo? Dealing With A Possible Site Ban By Yahoo.
Copyright 2005 by Planet Ocean, reprinted with permission.
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