I have: 14 BANS sites with .info domain names
8 BANS sites with .com or .co.uk domain names
4 WordPress sites pulling eBAY RSS feeds with .info domain names
2 WordPress sites pulling eBay RSS feeds with .com domain names
In the last week EVERY ONE of my BANS .info sites has been deindexed by Google. Gone completely - not even showing up for the URL. NONE of the other sites have been deindexed. So! Is Google targeting BANS sites on .info domains? it certainly looks like it to me. I had trouble a while ago getting a .info BANS site indexed at all. It sat there for nearly 3 months until I transferred it to a new domain name, was indexed last week and now BHAM! gone again.
I’m not prepared to wait 3 months to see if they all come back, I’ll invest in some .com domain names and transfer the sites.
Anyone else having the same problem?
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I think your sites has been sandboxed…
I had too the same problem…i mailed google webmasters about that and after nearly one month my site was indexed again
As I understand it sandboxing isn’t the same as being deindexed. When you’re sandboxed your pages are still in the index but are relegated to the wastelands of SERP’s. None of my sites are in the index at all!
Things have been happening daily that we need to be constantally aware of.Thanks for keeping the dialoge going
Thank you for posting this. I was about in invest in a .info but you stopped me from this information. Thanks so much for posting it!
I’ve moved most of my .info sites to .com domains - different IP address, different server, no links from the old sites. Maybe I’m being paranoid but I don’t want to give Google any excuse to dump these! They are being indexed OK so far.
In fact I heard over at SEOBook.com that all info domain was cleaned out of Google index. So yours are not the only sites.
Gladly Google has put back those .info.
What I don’t understand is why you use .info to make niche stores. Stores should be on .com aren’t they? That’s the meaning of those TLD.
BTW, I’m making a niche store too, called AP Mart. I don’t wanna be your competitor, I wan’t to be your friend. Can I?
This is not .info alone…
I had a high performing 8 month old .com completely dropped from the index last night. Along with it, a message from Google telling me to read the guidelines.
I posted a LONG post about it on my blog in the address link in this comment.
Mark - The niche Store Builder
I published a .info 9 May which has not been indexed. According to my stats googlebot visits daily but it has not indexed a single page and has ignored all my attempts to make it sit up and take note. Clearly it is ignoring .info completely and deliberately.
Mark is having problems even worse problems and now has 23 stores that have been deindexed that are not .info.
Hi Mike
OMG I just read Mark’s post. Don’t Use Adsense on BANS sites
What will Google do next?
My worse hit .com site has a blog in a subfolder with adsense on it. Could this be why it’s been hit do badly? I’ll remove the adsense, it’s bringing in nothing anyway.
as for the .info I truly believe Google is never going to index them so change them to .com. Check out this page Livecodes for a discount.
I am working on many .info domain but no bad lucks. Perhaps problem is sandbox effect. People all around the globe registered sites with names which are popular in .com. That’s why they have to have very high competition and they gone in sandbox effect.
Hi Qaswer
It isn’t the sandbox effect for the .info sites. These sites are not way down in SERPS they are completely de-indexed. Not even showing up for the domain name. I believe Google is dropping thin affiliate sites with .info domain names and also targeting BANS sites. Even ones with loads of content and backlinks have been dropped from the index. It also seems that Google is now sandboxing affiliate sites with other domain extensions, again having content as well as affiliate links doesn’t seem to be helping much.
Do Matt have bad reviews about affiliate sites and .info domains? Just on another blog I was reading about “Advanced SEO Techniques”. Those are considered more Black or Gray hat. I was wondering to read that he advised many of them but with a thin red line.
I registered lots of sites with adsense on. Got a decent number of hits from google, almost got my money back for registering (all within about 6 days) and then I would get removed by google. To test it again, I tried a few more domains and the same happened again
“Available Domain Names”, What it means and how you are slapped by Google after a few days? Did you do some illegal activity like clicking on ads yourself? I have been using Adsense since one year on all my blogs and still have no problems.
No, no dodgy activity. Looking at my logs, hardly anybody clicked on more than 1 page. I gather that google knows this (I can think of several ways they can find out - google toolbar, maybe the pagerank tool) and discarded me. I am surprised I am removed completely from google. I would have thought they would just lower me very low.
An example of one of my sites is http://www.babysized.com (not particularly great)
I put some pictures in the middle for entertainment and to encourage some uses to at least click on more pages.
I would be interest if anybody has any sites with a reasonable adsense revenue.
I’ve just put it through validator.w3.org and this was the outcome
Failed validation, 1707 Errors
Oops. I can understand that penalizing me but not removing me. That’ll keep me busy fixing that.
For website offering commercial products and services, it is always better to register under .com
.info domains aren’t popular with Google, try not to use it if you can.
Do you manage to get your sites indexed back?
With the recent shakeup in the niche store sector it’s clear what it comes down to is you must build full fledged niche blogs (I prefer wordpress…) and then ADD niche stores to the blog.