Check Google ban on domainname

[hellemans]

Hello all,

If I wanted to know if a domainname has a google ban on it would the following be a good idea to test it.

Place an article on the domain page with unique content and then link to the page so its gets indexed and then link to the article from a well indexed page.

If it doesn't get indexed there might be a ban on the page, if it does get indexed there is no ban on the page...

Or are there other points I should keep in mind while doing this.

All help is very welcome.

Cheers,

Arnout

[Entrusteddev]

The simplest way to my knowledge is to use the Google site: operator. Simply type site:www.yourdomain.co.uk into Google search box. The results this search brings back will show all the pages Google has indexed for your website.

You can also use cache:www.yourdomain.co.uk to see what google is holding in cache, clicking the Cached link in the listing will show when the site was last indexed.

[Dan-Petrovic]

There are several types of penalties (single keyword, all keywords, complete ban...etc). Search for your own brand and if you don't come up with anything than you're likely banned. Same thing with domain, site: command and info:

[TellThemEverything]

Also try the "trick" query of adding a /* to the URL.

site:domain.com/*

I always compare these results with the plain site:domain.com - it's conjecture but I believe the /* is showing the really indexed pages (primary index) and the other shows supplemental index. No-one really knows of course, but I track the percentage of one over the other as a way of measuring google's trust of your site. The numbers are relative, not absolute, but I use a yardstick of 20-30% as being good.

YMMV

[hellemans]

My main problem is that the site is not in Google's index currently. It is currently a parked domain with adsense on it....

Would my suggestion in the first post work?

[hellemans]

Yeps, I know this one but the site is adsense only on a parked domain...

[Dan-Petrovic]

Likely it's not banned then - just not worth indexing. Chuck some decent content up there and you'll be fine

[KeriMorgret]

Hi! I'm following up on some older questions. What did you do in this case? One thing I would have added to this discussion is that if you owned the domain already to verify it in Google Webmaster Tools and see if there were any webmaster notifications there about the domain.