Q and A: Why has my site vanished from Google?

Dear Kalena...

Me Too. I have had my site for nearly ten years and have been listed very well with Google since they began. A few weeks ago I vanished. Below is a copy of an email to Google. Please do not mention my web URL. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jamie

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Jamie

You are kidding right? You REALLY don't know why your site has disappeared? Looks like Google has actually banned your site from their index and I don't blame them. Why do I think it's banned? The site isn't cached by Googlebot, shows a Toolbar PageRank of zero, it has no backward links and no pages indexed.

Why don't I blame them? Because the site uses many of the retro spam tactics that were popular back in the 90s:

• Keyword-stuffed Title Tags
• Keyword-stuffed META Description Tags
• Keyword-stuffed META Keyword Tags
• Keyword-stuffed Alt Image attributes
  
• Multiple doorway pages (consider your index1.htm, p1975.htm and p2197.htm as three of many examples)
  
• Duplicate content on many pages
  
• A cross-linked internal directory of over 1,000 pages (while not necessarily spammy, could be seen as an attempt to artificially inflate your link popularity).
  

The list goes on. Oh and the bulletin board you said you deleted in your email to Google is still alive and well and ranking in Yahoo (see /anyboard9/forum/index.html). This forum alone could have earned you the Google penalty. I could be wrong, but to me it reeks of fake posts in a misguided attempt to boost your traffic and rankings.

Looks like you've got some serious rebuilding to do Jamie. Start here.

And thanks for playing:

Name That Retro Spam!