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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Have You Been Banned!

You are trying to have a highly optimized site, you try different things they may or may not be ethical. How do you know if you have gone too far? If your page rank has slipped or you have lost visibility with keywords that used to rank high, you may have been banned. What can you do?

One good tip is to read an article that Marcella De Vivo wrote up on the Search Engine Watch site called Coping with Search Engine Penalties. It is a good read.

There is a nifty tool that checks to see if you have been banned from Google. I am not sure how accurate it is but it is worth a peek. More info here.

There is some news on www.threadwatch.org that talks about a Google Pilot program that will send notifications to webmasters if they feel that they are breaking Googles guidelines.


Category: Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

posted by Symetri at 9/18/2005 03:26:00 PM