How to resubmit a Web 2.0 site to Google?

[JohnPeters]

I have 3 web 2.0 sites that look like theyve been hit by a penalty.

I have checked their backlinks and there are a lot of backlinks from sites that have been deindexed.

I have requested the removal of lots of the links, but now I need to resubmit the site to Google.

Is this even possible with them being a web 2.0 site? I don't have webmaster tools for the site so how would I do this?

[GoodAtMarketing]

Hi John,

Why cant you add Google webmaster tools? if you do you may be able to use the disavow tools for these back linking pages that do not exists anymore. Here's a good read on the disavow tool and when/how to use it: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath

Hope this helps.

[JohnPeters]

Hi,

Yes I was also going to use the disavow tool.

However most Web 2.0 sites dont give you access to upload a HTML file to verify the site

[GoodAtMarketing]

There is more then one way to verify..

To verify that you own a site, you have a number of options. You can:

• Add a meta tag to your home page (proving that you have access to the source files). To use this method, you must be able to edit the HTML code of your site's pages.
• Upload an HTML file with the name you specify to your server. To use this method, you must be able to upload new files to your server.
• Verify via your domain name provider. To use this method, you must be able to sign in to your domain name provider (for example, GoDaddy.com or networksolutions.com) or hosting provider and add a new DNS record.
• Add the Google Analytics code you use to track your site. To use this option, you must be an administrator on the Google Analytics account, and the tracking code must use the new asynchronous snippet.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35179

[ThompsonPaul]

Not sure what you mean by "Web 2.0 site", but there are multiple alternate ways to authorize a WMT account.

If the site already has Google Analytics installed (using the new async code) you can tell WMT to authorize against the GA account for the site instead. Alternatively, you can add asubdomain/txt record to your DNS via your Domain Registrar. In addition, if you can change page code, you could also add the verification code to the header of your homepage.

These additional options are made available under the Alternate Methods tab in the Verify Site section of WMT.

If by "Web 2.0" you mean that it's a site hosted by another entity and you have no file or code-level access and don't have any way of managing the domain name/DNS, then no, you don't have enough control of the sites to be able to do anything.

Paul

[JohnPeters]

Yes this is what I mean.

So if its been hit by a penalty and needs resubmitting, there is no possible way to do this?

[NakulGoyal]

Do you not even own the domain name in question ? As Paul recommended, you can also add a DNS record via your domain registrar to verify your domain for Google Webmaster Console access.

[JohnPeters]

Most web 2.0 sites are sub domains or sub pages, so I dont own the domain or have access to the DNS etc

Its a nightmare as some of these web 2.0 sites I had ranked high and generated lots of traffic for me

[NakulGoyal]

John

In that case, unfortunately there's not much you can do. If their main domain or network has been penalized and you are part of it, there's not much you can do about it unfortunately.