What To Do If You’ve Been Banned From Google

So 2-3 months after you build your site, you finally got a more or less consistent ranking (maybe it was your first ranking, or maybe you ranked early on, got put in the sandbox, and finally came out).  You try some SEO to get your ranking higher–then suddenly you’re not in Google’s index at all.

This can be frustrating, anger inducing, and scary.  But don’t decide the sky has fallen just yet.  There are steps you can take to be re-indexed.

First, go through your pages and make sure you’re not violating any of Google’s current policies.  Nine times out of ten, they don’t like something somewhere.

Check your pages on textalyser.net to make sure you’re not overdoing it with your keywords.  Check your tags to see that your keywords aren’t mentioned more than once in each tag (twice for the discretion tag is okay).

Once you’re done, you want to ask Google to reconsider your site.  Log in to your Google webmaster tools account and click “Request reconsideration” on the right-hand side of the page.  Tell them what you’ve just done to try to make your website kosher.

Make sure you’re polite.  You don’t have to bend over backwards to be nice, but yelling at Google isn’t going to help you get your site indexed.

Be sure to admit any errors on your part that may have caused the de-indexing.  Assure them that you have fixed the errors and will be careful in the future.  If this is your first time being de-indexed, let them know that, too.  There’s no guarantee that it’ll help, but it can’t hurt.

What do you do next?  You wait.  Hitting them up with two or three requests every day, or even every week, won’t help you out any.  You just have to wait and see what happens.

But if you’re sincere, and not a repeat offender, you’re likely to be back in Google’s search index again.