Confirmation of penalty

[ClaudioJudsoni]

Hi,

I have been discussing with friends about possible penalties on few domains [listed below]. I would appreciate if any of seomoz staff could check them and explain if these sites are penalized in full, or part of these websites are penalized or homepage being penalized, any identification of penalty being imposed, and how to get these sites restored.

http://www.google.com.pk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=123businesslistings.com&oq=123businesslistings.com&gs_l=hp.3...4797.4797.1.5047.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.1.8.psy-ab.xDG3ytsYUVU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45107431,d.aWc&fp=db751f8c4669b6fe&biw=1441&bih=603

keyword searched=123businesslistings.com

[SEOAndy]

could be somethingto do with not being able to load your homepage to start with

[Marcus_Miller]

SEO Audit Checklist:

1. Does homepage load?

Seriously though, given the seeming instability of the site my first port of call would be Google and Bing webmaster tools as the site, or homepage oddly enough is currently unavailable.

Beyond that, your site seemingly has 776,000 indexed pages (site: search so  approx) so a penalty audit is no five second job.

What makes you suspect a penalty? Can you provide any more info?

Marcus

[MarieHaynes]

The site won't load for me either.  Out of 10 attempts, I did get one page to load (but couldn't repeat it.)  When it did load I saw that the toolbar PR was N/A.  That's often not a good sign.

However, you've still got 773,000 pages in the index so you are not deindexed.

The one page that I saw simply had a business address and was no different than, say, a dmoz scraper site.  If the site doesn't add value other than just listing information that is available elsewhere on the web then there is a good chance that it not going to rank well.  Many sites like this are affected by Panda.

Do you have WMT set up?  This can tell you a lot such as whether or not Googlebot is having trouble accessing your site.

You don't have many links so I don't think it is a link penalty.

[William.Lau]

Claudio,

To get a definite answer to your question, simply go to Google Webmaster Tools and send a reconsideration request.

They will notify you if you are still penalized or there was no action taken on your account.