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Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Google kicked me out

I started a website July 2005. It took 6 months to get out of "the sandbox" aka "the pit of dispair" for those in it. Finally, the big day came when entering my domain in Google actually produced results This was after google had used multiple megabytes or more every month for 6 months indexing the website but hadn't included a single page. Fairly quickly after this, level 2 and 3 pages started making showing in Google. I got pagerank of 2 (not great but a big improvement over 0).

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Around a week ago, I began to notice results dropping. Only the main page and 58 "supplementals" were showing. These were all pages from July/August 2005 (they had cached pages then but never included them in the index). Anyway, today, all the supplementals are gone. A site:xyz.com command produces 1 result. It is my main page. And, it's not text from my main page in the description. Instead, it is the description from dmoz (i.e. the google directory). Basically, I've returned to "sandbox" purgatory, or possibly even worse, plain old "I-don't-really-exist hell".

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The thing which is hard to understand is why. It's a non-profit fansite. It is for an actor who is a household name. Their is original content. In fact, it's so original, I feel confident saying there is a lot of material on the website which isn't found anywhere on the web. That's because we actually scanned it, or wrote it.

Cool Technology
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We have inbound links from PR 9 websites like IMDB and DMOZ with lots of 6's and 7's. We have won awards for being a great website for content. We are on Page 1 in both Yahoo and MSN for searches on our main keywords. If we are not the best, certainly we are in the top 2 websites for our type of content type.This is why we have plenty of inbound links from peoples blogs, livejournals, forums, etc. to our main page AND deeper web pages.

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