Why my site is "STILL" violating the Google quality guidelines?
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Hello,
I had a site with two topics: Fashion & Technology.
Due to the Panda Update I decided to change some things and one of those things was the separation of these two topics.
So, on June 21, I redirected (301) all the Fashion pages to a new domain.
The new domain performed well the first three days, but the rankings dropped later. Now, even the site doesn't rank for its own name.
So, I thought the website was penalized for any reason, and I sent a reconsideration to Google. In fact, five days later, Google confirmed that my site is "still violating the quality guidelines".
I don't understand. My original site was never penalized and the content is the same. And now when it is installed on the new domain becomes penalized just a few days later?
Is this penalization only a sandbox for the new domain? Or just until the old URLs disappear from the index (due to the 301 redirect)? Maybe Google thinks my new site is duplicating my old site?
Or just is a temporal prevention with new domains after a redirection in order to avoid spammers?
Maybe this is not a real penalization and I only need a little patience?
Or do you think my site is really violating the quality guidelines? (The domain is http://www.newclothing.co/)
The original domain where the fashion section was installed before is http://www.myddnetwork.com/ (As you can see it is now a tech blog without fashion sections)
The 301 redirect are working well. One example of redirected URLs:
http://www.myddnetwork.com/clothing-shoes-accessories/ (this is the homepage, but each page was redirected to its corresponding URL in the new domain).
I appreciate any advice.
Basically my fashion pages have dropped totally. Both, the new and old URLs are not ranking.
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Hey, I was reading this discussion and I'm just curios to see if you had any success with reconsideration?
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Hello Ryan,
Yes, it is indexed. But Google confirmed it is penalized. It is not ranking even when I put "newclothing.co" - The site was ranking for that the first three days.
But, as I said before, it is a confirmed penalized site.
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Thank you very much!
The site is already in the GWT (since the beginning).
I know it is penalized because Google sent me a message. But, actually, it was after I sent a reconsideration request. They never sent me a message before, about issues in my site. And there is no malware according to GWT.
I will try to take out the adsense at the top and sent a new reconsideration.
This a great resource with great people.
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The only thing that i have noticed which has already been said is the google adsense at the top besides that it is a great site and cannot see why google would have any problem with it.
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Looking at your new site I see no reasons why it would not be indexed. Your page is returned with a valid 200 code. Your robots.txt file is fine. Your only external link from the home page is a feedburner rss feed. The content does not appear to contain spam, and there is enough content to index.
EDIT: Your site is indexed. I entered "http://www.newclothing.co/" as the search term and your site is the first one listed.
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The first thing to do is claim the site at Google Webmaster Tools. Google often communicates to webmasters with problem sites there. You could have a malware problem, hidden text or other problems.
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This is purely a guess, but I'd try the following:
Remove the ad at the top (it "could" be construed as misleading as it appears much like an internal navigation menu, with the links that are showing there seeming like links people should click on for categories on the site, when in fact it's an ad).
Then submit a re-inclusion again.
It's the only thing that really stands out to me.
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