Did I get banned in Google
- 26th Feb 2007
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Here is an interesting field test and one I didn’t want to do…
www.davidnaylor.co.uk is hosted on 1and1 … yer I know . first stupid move,
1and1 decided to do some “server maintenance” site up … site down …. site up … site down …. site up … site down …. over the last 4 days..
Hooray for Webmastercentral they tell me all the pages that have been fucked up .. lol BUT NO WAY to say why !! damn you google, so what are my options??
email Brian White?.. (yer Matt Cutts is so last year ;) ) .. email Vanessa Fox?.. she could push the WMC update I requested..
or do I do like any other Webmaster … wait it out or is this the end of www.davidnaylor.co.uk?… should I just close the doors now :(
DaveN
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I feel a bit of a tard telling you stuff Dave but you know 1 & 1 have absolutely no UK IP’s so your site will be excelling over at Google.de, would that help mess up your site in Google?
just food for thought
I’m seeing 555 pages indexed from you in my Google data center (64.233.167.99).
Dubibob ,don’t feel bad at pointing stuff out, I do know about the German IP problems.. maybe I will move it ,,
so
a) UK ip
b) US ip
Dave
If it’s value you’re after and you have the .co.uk anyway (for those lovely local UK only searches) - go for the B. US ip.
I must say I like US hosting as I like hosting comparison charts that show stats like bandwidth and storage in TBs and GBs instead of the usual crud you get on UK hosting, the dread MBs… (rip-off Britain applies to hosting as well)
Ok, so I’m never going to need the other 700GBs of bandwidth a month, but it’s comforting to know it’s there. :)
Then again, if you were thinking of putting any gambling related sites out in the US as well as your blog, then, go UK - come the UIGAE implementation, I won’t be chancing it. :D
I see your site indexed, what’s the problem? How about re-submitting your sitemap file (or RSS feed)? So 1+1 has stopped blocking the Googlebot? ;-)
I can’t add much value over John’s comment…. [site:davidnaylor.co.uk] returns pages, your blog came up in my Google Reader hence my visit…
Outside of Webmaster Tools things look OK…or do I need to be mailed my DaveN decoder device :)
I see you still indexed as well. Maybe its just an early warning they are giving?
Would be interesting to see a screen shot of what google actually tell you in situations like this.
I see you here in the US
If you just saw the error messages (warnings) in your Webmaster Central account, you can usually ignore those. I get thousands of them :-) and it hasn’t changed the indexing of the site in general (it’s a dynamic site which only returns pre-cached to the bots).
Hey dave about the German IP problems - whats the deal with that? I have a .co.uk site on a 1&1 dedicated - bad choice?
No problem, mick — if you have a .co.uk domain or if you don’t mind not being found in the local searches (google.co.uk / “pages from the UK”).
Google uses the top-level-domain (.co.uk) or the location of the server to determine geographic relevance. If you have a .co.uk domain it doesn’t matter where your server is, it’ll be found on google.co.uk; if you have a generic TLD (.com/.net/etc) you have to make sure your server is physically located there.
Brian even beat me here–I feel so last year. :)
Just as other mentioned, I see you indexed in the google.com datacenter I’m hitting. When I do:
site:www.davidnaylor.co.uk
you’re returning 2,770 pages. Your homepage also has a 6/10 PR score in my Google browser.
Coming in loud and clear in the Southeast USA.
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,770 from http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk. (0.13 seconds)
You’re running fine here - but slowly. Nice clean route, so it should be faster than I’m seeing.
Tracing route to davenaylor.co.uk [xxxxxxxxx]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1
You surely know better than to host with 1& 1.
Thats for the newbies….
Well it is probably your IP that is not from UK. That means your page will not be included in the UK results. I wish somebody would add an option to set your site’s country.
This is a very pertinent question. Having just had an entire domain drop out of the Google indices, where do I turn? In order to file a re-inclusion request I have to tick a check-box which states that I “believe this site has violated Google’s quality guidelines” and I don’t.
I have searched and cannot find any spam at all, so I haven’t changed anything, so it looks like I just have to wait it out and hope!