I checked my links to the store a couple of weeks ago, and I had some linking. I checked recently and found there were none. I think I may have done something wrong, and possibly followed bad advice from others. I’m NOT sure if I have a penalty etc, and the way the forms are setup on google unless you show ownership of the site you may NEVER know either!

Is there not a way of showing this for people in my situation, and to submit a reinclusion request directly?

I had followed your advice for a site of mine that was delisted and I’m glad to say that I finally got back in!!! Hooray! It took a couple weeks and I don’t think I’m doing well in any of my keywords but I’m sure time will take care of that – right? Well I hope so. Thanks for your great videos – seeing your mug makes it all seem so friendly.

-Dan

Perhaps it should be an option, perhaps there should be an option for the scenario where you have 0 pages listed, but don’t feel you’ve broken any guidelines? I know you don’t want to give too much away to the spammers, like “do x and y and your spam site will be listed,” but I think the form needs a little modification.

Thanks.

Great video’s, but this re-inclusion request was, like you announced, more of a spoken version of the information that you gave before on your blog. I would have liked some more information on how the communication with the webmasters regarding the re-inclusion request goes. Several people told me that you will get some kind of automated Email that your request is under consideration and after a few weeks some kind of response from Google, but i’ve got nada, nothing and actually think that i must have done something terribly wrong and the re-inclusion request has disappeared into a cosmic black hole or some kind of 4th dimension, which I trust Google engineers have already developed

Kind regards,
Joost

Thanks
Todd

I can tell you I have lost so much money to these spammers that I get physically sick when I think about it…

Every day now I ask myself. “is it still worth it?”, my work is just going to make more profit for some scumbag spammer, while me and my family scrapes by with what little is left over.

Do I sound angry… you bet I am.

The problem is that the domain was used by a spammer and banned by google, before I got it.

Now after one year+ and three re-inclusion requests (one by email – one by the ‘old’ method of requesting re-inclusion and last month one request via site maps) the site still does not have a single page indexed.

The site has been in the google site maps program for five months+ and it meets google’s webmasters guidelines in every way, the site is only running Wordpress with no added scripts and only original content.

The only information site maps gives me is that no pages are indexed and to review google’s webmaster guidelines, not much help.

So is there anything else I can do to get this site included? Or am I just out of luck?

Is there a way to get a ban removed so that it can be indexed. As in I don’t have to have all the backlinks but I would like to get the site so it can start over. I have a good domain that I blatently spammed and it got banned big time. The domain still has value because it is a 4 letter .net and I would like to sell it but if it can’t be indexed in Google it loses some value. I have had it in site maps for a few months now and did a reinclusion request there.

Just wanted to thank you for putting this series together. Most of the information is pretty much common sense, but it certainly puts an end to a lot of the myths out there.

I gave up on the datacenter watching about three months ago after getting into a debate with folks over at WMW over the trends I noticed in certain centers.

If you have a chance, maybe you can talk about the related: command some time.

Your cat’s cool too.

BillyS