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Many web site owners are under the false impression that if they can't get their web site listed on a search engine then they must be restricted from that engine. Banned from Google? How will my site ever get seen? Google, the world's most popular search engine, retains over 60 percent of all search engine results. To lose that level of exposure is life threatening for a web site. There are many indicators for web site owners to be aware of in order to trouble shoot the position of their site. For instance, I have submitted hundreds of sites and after two or three weeks the home page will usually show up on the search engine listing. Some sites can take twice as long. A rule of thumb that I go by is, if you can't find your home page on a search engine a month after the original submission date, then something may be wrong with your site.

First, let's point out that having a site banned from Google is a fairly rare event, reserved for particularly egregious behavior. Usually, most objectionable offenses result in a reduced search engine rank; not an outright ban. Your page may still be in Google's index, it's just no longer residing in the upper echelon of the search results.

At one time, the Google toolbar was a fairly easy and effective way to find out if you had been banned from Google: A completely gray PageRank toolbar meant that Google did not have that page listed in their index – either because the page was too new to have been indexed, or the page had been banned by Google; a completely white tool bar meant that the page was listed by Google but had almost no PageRank, or that the PageRank hadn't been calculated yet.

To a large degree, however, these guidelines are no longer reliable. The PageRank reporting, as indicated on the Google toolbar, has been inconsistent for the past several months now. PageRank updates have been taking an inordinately long time and often appear to be flatly inaccurate. Adding to the confusion are reports that banned pages are sometimes showing a white bar, sometimes gray, and sometimes even green. We're not sure whether Google is having technical issues or if Google is purposefully crippling the PageRank feature to make search engine optimization more difficult.

What sort of things will cause you to get banned?

Submitting your site to many Free For All (FFA) pages, which are pages of link after link after link. These are also called link farms. This used to be an acceptable practice about eight years ago, but no more.
Submitting your site to Google over and over and over again.
Linking to many, many other sites with a PR (PageRank) of 0, and having many sites with a PR of 0 link back to you.
Your site having little or none original content (this is especially true with sites that are replicated, meaning your site is identical or nearly identical to many others)

You have determined that Google banned you for illegal SEO (search engine optimization) techniques, you have a lot more work to do. So much, in fact, that many webmasters just remove the domain that was penalized and start with something domain. It is much easier to build a site from a PR4 or PR5 rather than trying to dig out from a banned site.

While you are banned you need to have a backup plan that will help you bring quality targeted traffic to your website until you can recover from the penalty. We suggest the following types of traffic campaigns.

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