Finally Google Accepted My Reconsideration Request
In the start of 2008, Google penalized and dropped my site from the SERP. My site was found nowhere in Google search engine. I was not sure about the penality because it is almost impossible to determine whether or not your site does have a penalty. So, I decided to do some research work before taking some serious steps towards the reconsideration or reinclusion request. After spending some time on research I found the following possibilities which causes the penalty.
- Lot of outgoing links without rel=nofollw
- XHTML code was not upto standards
- Some missing urls (404 not found)
- Linking to bad neighborhoods in blogroll
I posted my problem to Google’s official webmaster group and got some very good advices. searchenginepenalties also helped me a lot to find the possible reasons about penalties.
I fixed all the mentioned problems and sent reconsideration request to google on 5th Jan, 2008 and acknowledged that my site is no longer violating Google’s quality guidelines & agreed that I will abide by all the quality guidelines.
I am very glad that they accepted my apologies and reconsider my site to SERP. You can see the effect in the stats graph.
Many Thanks to Google Team.
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Faizan, You can check if site is listen in Google by writing site:shafiq.pk in search box
If there is not any entry listed, then your site might be penalized.
how one can identify hise website being penaltised by Google.
obviously website hits indicating us but can u share here any more techniques to identify this!
how one can identify hise website being penaltised by Google.
obviously website hits indicating us but can u share here any more techniques to identify this!
Faizan, You can check if site is listen in Google by writing site:shafiq.pk in search box
If there is not any entry listed, then your site might be penalized.