If you think that you may have had a site banned by Google, it can be pretty scary — lost sales, upset clients, angry bosses, etc. — and getting back in has always been something of a mystery. Being banned in Google is not as common for most of us as some would leave you to believe. If you’re developing good content and not trying to “trick” the search engines or the end user, the chances of being banned by Google for your SEO practices are pretty slim.

But, it does happen from time-to-time. Maybe you received bad advice on SEO, maybe you hired an unscrupulous SEM firm who has succeeded in getting all of its clients tossed out of the Google index.

Google is beginning to take some of the mystery out of being banned and is starting to test sending emails to webmasters informing them of their unfortunate status.

Ok, so let’s imagine that you have been banned by Google… What now? Google Engineer, Matt Cutts, has posted advice on reinclusion on his blog. You can read the entire post here:
Filing a reinclusion request


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