My site got a ban by google.

[cruguy]

I believe, you should resubmit your sitemap to webmaster tools, sometimes google will give penality if you get with spammy backlinks or trying to rank up using blackhat way, check your backlinks through ahref and also wait until google crawls again and update.

 

[robintattler]

You must have lost important rankings and it could also be a temporary thing if your website is established. Give it some time while figuring out what may have gone wrong in the meantime.

 

[drogon]

Your home page is still not showing (deindexed)! Did you try to resubmit your site to google search engine?

In WMT did you try the 'Fetch as Googlebot' and then 'Submit to Index' options?

 

[niel96]

Hi no i didn't i have just clicked on fetch as googlebot and submit to index. I will see tomorrow or within a few days when this helps.

You think this could solve the problem?

 

[niel96]

Strange thing is, when i look at indexing status, about the same time when the indexed url's rose my rankings dropped.

 

[jstover77]

I would pick a new domain man. Change your strategy next time.

 

[drogon]

Hi no i didn't i have just clicked on fetch as googlebot and submit to index. I will see tomorrow or within a few days when this helps.

You think this could solve the problem?

Hopefully that might solve the problem....but your homepage naturally should not be deindexed this long. If still not showing in a week i would suggest use a new domain name. You may need to rebrand and use a .com and no need to add 'forum' to your domain name and use someting unique so you are automatically no.1 for your brand name with hardly any linking since the name is unique to you.

Also learn from any mistakes like dodgy link building. If you still like that...the .org is available so maybe use that and transfer the site.

 

[niel96]

I did the fetch as googlebot thing for my homepage, should i do this for every url of my site? The last 4 days i had no visitors from google, today i have 1 so it might work.

How can i prevent this from happening in the future? Is my site really that bad to lose 9/10 of my traffic?

 

[drogon]

I did the fetch as googlebot thing for my homepage, should i do this for every url of my site? The last 4 days i had no visitors from google, today i have 1 so it might work.

How can i prevent this from happening in the future? Is my site really that bad to lose 9/10 of my traffic?

Also check your robots.txt and htaccess file for any entries preventing googlebot access.

 

[Shadexpwn]

In the means of this not being a penalty, it could be a bounce that Google uses to reestablish rankings.

All will be fine as this could be how Google's new hierarchy is done by with the coming algorithm updates.

One day I lost ranking then they came back to see more improvement.

Google allows duplicate content on Fansites, movie / entertainment portals more than they used to except they now categorize site authority based on levels so less rank is given to sites that have third party content sources.

 

[niel96]

@ Drogon: i checked the robots.txt and htaccess file but this is not causing the problem.

@shadexpwn: i only copied content from a private fb group, how can google know it's not original content? How long can this bounce last? It's already 4-5 months and i'm still having this problem.

 

[drogon]

@ Drogon: i checked the robots.txt and htaccess file but this is not causing the problem.

@shadexpwn: i only copied content from a private fb group, how can google know it's not original content? How long can this bounce last? It's already 4-5 months and i'm still having this problem.

Its time to move on to a new domain..(if the Fetch and Submit does not work)..you are only just revealing you have copied content, So who knows what else is wrong and you got deindexed by the Google algo. Move your forum to a new Domain is the best advice already suggested and use only unique content in future and be careful with link building.

 

[niel96]

Can google know when i copied the content from a private fb group? Only 140 people have access to that group, it's not that i copied from other public sites or public groups.

 

[niel96]

Yesterday i got 3 visitors and today also. Will it help to submit all my url's from the site when i do the fetch as googlebot thing?

 

[Cha Wong]

I can see your website on Google. It's not banned..
Resubmit your sitemap and indexed your website including web-pages to get indexed by Google

 

[drogon]

I can see your website on Google. It's not banned..
Resubmit your sitemap and indexed your website including web-pages to get indexed by Google

The homepage is deindexed!

 

[niel96]

I gave it up, next time i will use better cms than wordpress and whitehat strategy.

Blackhat is become very difficult, google knows everything nowadays it's not like 10 years ago. Internet is growing up.

 

[TurnedToTheDarkSide]

Your site is really thin on content and the homepage looks like a link-farm. You don't even have any descriptions under the links. For the sake of half an hours work, you should put some proper content on the homepage, like a 500 word article near the top. That may be enough to get it re-indexed. I think it would be worth you trying that before scrapping this site.

I just remember something. I did a "free keyword checkup" by some seo company a while ago. They promised to rank for one keyword for free. Maybe they spammed a lot of low quality backlinks to my website. I emailed them last week to explain my situation and they said they deleted the links. Do i need to disavow when links are deleted?

Was that keyword "forum voor belegger" by any chance? There are hundreds of backlinks from spammy directory sites with the same keyword - "forum voor belegger". One directory alone has over 500 backlinks to your site.

 

[niel96]

Your site is really thin on content and the homepage looks like a link-farm. You don't even have any descriptions under the links. For the sake of half an hours work, you should put some proper content on the homepage, like a 500 word article near the top. That may be enough to get it re-indexed. I think it would be worth you trying that before scrapping this site.



Was that keyword "forum voor belegger" by any chance? There are hundreds of backlinks from spammy directory sites with the same keyword - "forum voor belegger". One directory alone has over 500 backlinks to your site.

Yes it was that keyword indeed!! I thing this caused the google penalty.

 

[SEO Sicko]

Make sure that your contents are not duplicate.

And check your content is no too large.If it is like that use canonicalization.

Attach your sitemap once again if it is an issue.

Maybe your site will be Deindexed make a query, experts will give you some summary.