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May 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)
App checks for Google bans
There are a number of reasons a site can be banned from Google's increasingly make-or-break indexing.
The worst thing is not knowing why? SEOJunkie.com has made freely available its web crawl/analysis tool Google Ban Checker, of which author Sufyan writes:
While modding over at SEOChat, I posted a tool Is Banned By Google? Much to my surprise, it became quite popular and I received tons of emails / IMs from people requesting me to improve it some more and to add a couple of features that were not present then. Also, I read many threads at numerous forums people discussing about this tool and asking for an update.So I continued working on this tool whenever I had time to. Now, it is finished up and ready to be used. Since it is quite simple to use, I’m not bothering writing a documentation or how-to.
InfoWorld is having some trouble with Google News picking up our news stories from our main news page, while Tech Watch is picked up apparently as our primary news source.
The biggest problem is we cannot get a straight answer from Google what the problem is, and we cannot find a contact within Google News to resolve the issue.
I don't think this app addresses our Google News problem, what we understand to be a human judgement issue: someone choosing which part of our site to crawl for Google News. But there is no human at Google who will talk to us.
With word from the Google Ban Checker author that it has been popular, one can assume there are a number of people being banned.
Talk back to us and tell if you've been snubbed by the almighty Google. (And if you know anything that might help with our Google News, do share.)
Posted by Mike Barton on May 11, 2006 11:32 AM
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I am going to send a request to Google requesting this information. I don't use Google nor have a site rated. What bothers me is ANOTHER Big Brother controlling the freedom of Speech. I can understand if they are restricting posting for US enemies, kiddie porn, or anything else vile, but to do this for financial or market gain is not what the internet was created for. Even although the internet was created by DARPA, it was created for people to share information.
Best of Wishes,
Gary Janssen
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