Blue Hat Technique #11-Last Resort Self-Unbanning
This technique, although painfully obvious, works as a last resort for a site that has been banned in Google (or any other SE for that matter). Lets say for instance that your site uses some spammy techniques and got banned. The first and most obvious step of course should be to file a reinclusion request with Google as soon as you do a little spring cleaning. However there is two reasons why a person would not want to do this.
Reasons to not file a reinclusion request
1) Your spammy technique does so well in MSN and Yahoo that it would not be worth it to remove for the sake of Google. You do not necessarily care about Google, but it would be nice to at least have another chance at Google.
2) Even with the spam removed Google won’t honor your reinclusion request. So you might as well put it back up and do well in MSN and Yahoo. However getting back in Google would be nice as well.
Here’s how to get back in Google without hurting your status on MSN and Yahoo.
Buy another domain extremely similair to yours. For instance if your site is DogCollarUSA.com buy DogCollarsUSA.com. 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one. Then make the new domain your new primary domain.
Benefits
If your wondering why it seems like I’m picking on Google in particular; it is because Google seems to care more about older domains and is most likely to ban your site for a technique they consider spammy. From my experience 301 redirecting from one domain to newer one has only minor temporary effects on your MSN and Yahoo rankings.
Obvious downsides
Although you get to keep your link popularity in the other engines, you obviously loose your current link popularity in the engine you’re unbanning yourself from, since it probably won’t even bother following the links pointed to a banned domain. Hey, what can I say? Gain nothing…loose nothing. At least your back in the index and any links you can get to switch over to the new domain will show up in the now unbanned engine. Plus any new links you gain count as well. Besides, at least your back in the index with a fighting shot.
PS. Why haven’t I seen any tools designed to find all the sites that link to your site and email them requesting a change in the link? I’d be easy to make and might be useful for situations like this. Also wouldn’t be bad for requesting changes to anchor text. I would also love to see one that goes out and finds all the sites that link to you using rel=nofollow and sends the site owner an email asking them to remove the nofollow tag.
This is a superb idea. Thanx.
One of my client has her site penalised for duplicate content. G still index the home page, but the rest is in supplimentary, old.
So if I 301 redirect to a new domain, all the links to home page will be transfered. Anyways, there are not may links pointing to other pages.
thanx a lot!
“So if I 301 redirect to a new domain, all the links to home page will be transfered. Anyways, there are not may links pointing to other pages.”
Deep links are also redirected this way?
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Hi eli,
great post as always. I’ve been reading your blog for a long time now. But i just found this post.
> From my experience 301 redirecting from one domain to newer one has only minor temporary effects on your MSN and Yahoo rankings.
What would be in your experience be a timeframe of such a minimal temporary effect?
Thanks,
k.
I hope I would never end up having to resort to that. I get alot of traffic from google and don’t want to spam my way out of the index! I have seen a few sites using spam that is ahead of mine, but I believe in the long run, my site is safe and stands the test of time.
A response to ur PS Eli;
Actually there is one tool that shows all links ponting to your website and it is very popular.
http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker
It checks all backlinks pointing to a URL.
Hope it helps
Great idea but it is awfully risky to use techniques that will get you into this predicament. The amount of time being spent on spamming and cleaning up messes is equal to the amount of time spent on ethical methods. The benefits to ethical search engine optimization tend to outweigh those of blue or black hat.
allian
Interesting post. May need to use this myself!
Hopefully I’ll never have to use this method, but theanks for explaining in such detail.
I hope to keep my content clean and don’t need this, kind of scary.
Good point for unbanning the website from Search Engine.
Thanks a lot for the information.
How would you unban hundreds of .coms? Is there anything I can do other than enter each stupid one into Webmaster Tools!? LOL
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The information you provided was very useful. Because of your help, thank you.
This is a very interesting post
Although hopefully nothing happens that gets my site banned to begin with, it’s better to have something and not need it than need it and not have it. Thanks a lot Eli.
This is a good experiment to try . lately google hasn’t update my blog for a while
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I have some phone number sites that were banned… Does this still work for re-inclusion? I know this is an old article…
Good point for unbanning the website from Search Engine.
May need to use this myself!
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I didn’t know this was possible
I do agree with all of the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too short for newbies. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.
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This way is a good experiment to try . lately google hasn’t update my blog for a while and the new panda is no good.
After the completion od the so called spring cleaning is your apllication for Google that you had entirely get rid of the spammy techniques. This material gave me cuople of suggestions which I never thought of so far.
i never really understood this term…thanks for enlightening me
This sounds like an interesting idea. Do you know of a good program to do this for the search in a wordpress blog? Thanks!
Interesting post. May need to use this myself!
Actually there is one tool that shows all links ponting to your website and it is very popular.
Indeed a last resort to self-ban
I followed the advice and got Promosoft a good while ago. It does work but it takes time and you will need the full version of Promosoft for it to make any significant difference.
it a great information..Now I know about how to unbanning
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