13 year old .com recently de-indexed...Still worth anything..?

[partymarty4870]

A vast majority still do, yes.

and santa's going to leave me lots of presents - because I've been a good boy this year.

 

[demoownz]

Can you be de-indexed for approving spam comments on your wordpress site?

 

[FireTheWild]

Mine was deindexed 2 months ago. It was manual penalty obviously. Yesterday I submitted a request. Fingers crossed ...

 

[demoownz]

Let everyone know how it turns out on the resubmit. Im interested in knowing.

 

[falconer]

Back up and running...!! Perhaps G does listen sometimes after all...?

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.??????.co.uk/,
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www.?????.co.uk/ for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
Previously the webspam team had taken manual action on your site because we believed it violated our quality guidelines. After reviewing your reconsideration request, we have revoked this manual action. It may take some time before our indexing and ranking systems are updated to reflect the new status of your site.
Of course, there may be other issues with your site that could affect its ranking without a manual action by the webspam team. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users. If your site continues to have trouble in our search results, please see for help with diagnosing the issue.
Thank you for helping us to maintain the quality of our search results.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team

 

[jeffnaz]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have a similar problem but procrastinated about requesting a reconsideration. After reading your thread I submitted my request so hopefully I'll hear similar good news.

 

[Corrupt]

Back up and running...!! Perhaps G does listen sometimes after all...?

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.??????.co.uk/,
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www.?????.co.uk/ for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
Previously the webspam team had taken manual action on your site because we believed it violated our quality guidelines. After reviewing your reconsideration request, we have revoked this manual action. It may take some time before our indexing and ranking systems are updated to reflect the new status of your site.
Of course, there may be other issues with your site that could affect its ranking without a manual action by the webspam team. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users. If your site continues to have trouble in our search results, please see for help with diagnosing the issue.
Thank you for helping us to maintain the quality of our search results.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team

Congrats
How long did it take and what did you tell them?

 

[falconer]

I took some drastic action...! Before sending the reconsideration request ! deleted all pages (all 1200 of them) EXCEPT index, about us, contact us, and privacy policy.

Then for good measure I added a few more high PR profile links.......

Perhaps I was just lucky....you never know with G....

Now all I have to do is build all those pages again...carefully !

 

[Corrupt]

That's some drastic measure..it'll make your rankings fall again though, wont it?
Why not just add the pages already, since the manual penalty has been removed?

 

[falconer]

I did consider that but since G didn't tell me exactly what the problem was, it's hard to know if I'm going to get hit again if I use the same pages.....

Still retained 13 years worth of aged backlinks though.....!

 

[Corrupt]

Probably scrapebox blasts, who knows.
But still, a ton of 404 errors wouldn't do much good for the rankings. Perhaps temporarily redirect all the pages to your index page and remove the redirections as and when you add the page, then ping them?