May 14
Was Google Really Banning TKG.com?
…or does it normally take Google 11 days to index a newly revived domain?
This is what we know…
- TKG.com was added to Google Webmaster Tools on Day 1
- Yahoo! was indexing the new TKG.com domain within 24 hours of the switch
- Googlebot was crawling tkg.com on Day 3, but still not indexing it
- Yahoo! was ranking TKG.com 6 days after the domain switch
- MSN was indexing & ranking TKG.com 6 days after the switch
- Additional efforts for increasing TKG.com traffic (not to be confused with link popularity) to help Google crawl the site 6 days after switch
- Day 7 - We find TKG.com on a blacklist & submit a reconsideration request to Google
- Day 10, TKG.com is OFF the blacklist
- 12 hours after TKG.com is OFF the blacklist, Google starts indexing the site
All of the evidence points to Google not indexing the site due to TKG.com being on a blacklist…
My conclusion: TKG.com was banned by Google…so why doesn’t Google ban every site that implements spam techniques?
July 25th, 2008 at 8:42 am
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