Site Not getting Indexed and Lost Traffic Suddenly
Google is now very strict with the quality of the websites and its content. If they find a site is copying content continously, posting meaningless content, huge keyword stuffing, posting repeated content, duplication of posts in the same website and copyright content then immediately the site owner will get the following message. You can find the message in your webmaster tools:
Dear Site Owner or Webmaster of http://abcd.com,
We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
Specifically, we’ve detected low-quality pages on your site which do not provide substantially unique content or added value. Examples could include thin affiliate pages, doorway pages, automatically generated content or copied content. For more information about unique and compelling content, visit http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66361.
We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once you’ve made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google’s search results.
If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.
Yours sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team
So bloggers, if you want to continue your journey for a long term with Google then try to avoid the above said mistakes. Otherwise one fine day you will get a shocking warning message from Google that your site has been removed from SERP and you will lose entire keyword ranking.
Prevention is better than cure. Here once Google removes a site from SERP then take it for granted that it is almost next to impossible to revert the site back by Google no matter how many appeals you may make.
Follow these basic guidelines so that your site will not get penalized by Google:
- Dont’ post duplicate content
- Don’t post copyright content
- Don’t post content only with keyword stuffing
- Don’t post repeated script in all the articles by just changing dates.
- Don’t post spin content
- Don’t maintain too less number of words. Try to post at-least not less than 300 to 400 words in each post.
- Don’t post auto-generated content
- Don’t post scraped content
- Don’t post content created only for search engines
If you want to appeal or request Google to reconsider your site then follow the steps below:
- Login to your Google webmaster Tools account
- Request Google to reconsider your site here
- Fill in the required details with clear description of the steps you have taken with your site that is penalized.
Have you ever received such message for any of your websites? If yes, do share with us and the steps you have taken to get the site back. Your experiences are helpful to the readers.