Causes that lead to Banning of your Website
What does ‘banning’ means? Banning means that search engines will eliminate your website URL from their index and declare your site as ‘banned’. This means that your links will not be crawled into search engines and your website will not get search engines exposure.
The most common causes for banning of a website or a blog arises from the blunders created by bloggers or webmasters . Knowingly or unknowingly, most bloggers and webmasters commit these mistakes and as a result, their blog or website gets banned.
Here is a list of 5 mistakes that could get your site banned by search engines:
1. Unseen text – Some bloggers and webmasters use unseen keywords on their blog posts or wbpages. These texts are not visible to readers but are crawled by search engines. Back in the days, these proved helpful for some webmasters, but now it is considered as a sin by search engines spiders and can get you banned.
2. Using keywords which are not present on your website – Some bloggers or webmasters fill their ‘meta keywords’ with stuffs like “teen, celebrity, movies” (these are the keywords that get huge traffic) even when their site is about entirely different topic like ‘software’, ‘windows’, etc. This trick is mostly played by those that want to gain a share of traffic from some other niche. This is hated by search engines and you will be definitely banned for this because search engines’ duty is to help people get relevant content.
3. Illegal programs or software or scripts to work out website rankings or submit your website to search engines is against the Terms of Service of most of the major search engines and this may get you banned.
4. Keyword stuffing – Some webmasters and blog owners use excessive keywords in their ‘meta tags’. More than 20 keywords sould not be used in your meta tags. If you stuff your ‘meta tags’ with many keywords (more than 30 keywords is a sin), your website may get banned.
5. Doorway Pages – Doorway pages are single page websites that are used to send traffic to main website. These are intended to attract visitors and compel them to enter a website. Doorway pages are still used by some SEO firms but personally, I have seen many cases where the webmaster has been banned for using doorway pages.
January 24, 2009
11:53 pm
Nice article!
New bloggers should read this but dont’t be afraid of experiment as long as you’re still in those guidelines.
January 26, 2009
12:20 am
i’ve seen a lot of cases where blogger love to use tags unrelated to their post… well what can i say, sometimes i fall into their trap as well.
January 26, 2009
6:04 am
Wonderful share aditya. Very informative indeed. Keep up the good work.
January 26, 2009
8:43 am
Hello
I can see the text now that you have set a white background. I was a bit angry last time because my visit had been absolutely useless.
I always get upset when I am asked to visit a link and do not get what I had been lead to expect. I’ll bet you feel likewise!
By the way, you have a stylish site here.
January 26, 2009
2:38 pm
I thnk that for the most part your article has given very valuable information. I especially like the part about the keywords as I have wondered how many is too much and what amout would be considered too little.
I have however read several articles (published within the last 3 to 5 yrs) which reccomends a certain amount of “unseen text”. The reasoning for this is three fold. First- it helps text only browsers to identify what should be in place of a picture. Second- It helps search engines find relevant keywords within your website or blog, and third- if the browser is unable to display the picture for what ever reason, the text will always display.
January 27, 2009
12:29 am
@iWillToo – Thanks for your feedback. Hope to hear more from you in future.
@six9k9 – Unseen text doesn’t mean texts attached to a picture that is crawled by search engines. Unseen text means text which are made to blend with the backgorund. For example, if I have white bacjground and I write something in white, it will not be visible to my readers but will be seen by search engines. This should be not done.
March 13, 2009
5:15 pm
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May 18, 2009
5:02 pm
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May 18, 2009
5:04 pm
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May 18, 2009
5:05 pm
RT @anddjournal: Causes that lead to Search Engine Banning of your Website/Blog (Most of which you do not know) – http://tinyurl.com/dmbmug
May 18, 2009
5:49 pm
RT @anddjournal: Causes that lead to Search Engine Banning of your Website/Blog (Most of which you do not know) – http://tinyurl.com/dmbmug
May 19, 2009
7:45 pm
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