How to get un-blacklisted from Google

You might try asking the Google forum folks/searching the forums for similar cases at http://www.webmasterworld.com/category30.htm for advice. Also keep in mind that DMOZ is a completely separate entity from Google and is run by volunteer power. You might try an inquiry about your status http://www.webmasterworld.com/category30.htm, but be sure to follow the stickied FAQS & forum guidelines.

From http://www.mymommybiz.com/ebusiness/fixbannedsite.html:If you have determined that Google banned you for shady SEO (search engine optimization) practices, you have a lot more work to do. So much, in fact, that many people just ditch the former domain name and start with something new. It is much easier to build a site from a PR3 or PR4 (which most new sites are given) rather than trying to dig a banned site from the depths of PR0. But Google will consider reincluding sites if you send an email to [email protected] with "reinclusion request" as the subject - AFTER you have cleaned the entire site up. Do not email before your site is completely clean of spam techniques - if they see your site still doing the things it was banned for, you might hurt your chances to get your site included into the index again once it is clean. Google also publishes http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html.Also, see: - Discussion of Google bannings due to Traffic Power http://www.highrankings.com/issue103.htm#seo. - A http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/4584.htm at webmasterworld. - A http://www.pandia.com/features/banned.html at pandia.

I want to take what you're saying here on faith, but I have to note that you appear to have been involved with the site since at least http://web.archive.org/web/20000817040316/http://www.phillyfuture.org/, when there was a redirect of the domain to an EditThisPage site that you now control. Also, you also appear to have been author on the site in http://web.archive.org/web/20010917013956/http://www.phillyfuture.org/. It does look like the domain changed hands a couple of times since then, but it still leaves open questions. How is that this is only a recent problem? Did the domain name change hands? If so, why? Whether it's a human or computer making the decision to ban, how they could know for certain that the site and the people that run it are now on the straight and narrow? Have you considered starting with a new domain name? Do a 301 domain redirect on the old domain to the new one, resubmit the new URL everywhere, wait three months, and hope for the best.

Thanks for the replies folks.... but I guess I need more help. Mo, I let the domain expire after my nephew died from SIDS. I asked others to take the site over, but no one offered - so I let it go. A porn redirector took the domain name and I believe it is what caused the domain to get banned. When the porn site let the domain expire - I bought it right back. It was in Google way back when I originally owned it. And the porn site got it banned... I think. For the past year I have tried traditional ways to get the site indexed by Google. Most importantly - simply putting up good content that people link to. I have already sent the reinclusion request email pmurray - only to get an automated reply to use their help forms - which in turn resulted in more automated replies to sit tight - if the site follows guidelines it will get indexed. As far as anyone has been able to tell me - I've done all the right things. It follows guidelines. It has good content that people care about. It has links by plenty of folks with high page ranks. I think we're screwed. I don't want to lose the domain name a second time.

You could invest $5 in a http://answers.google.com/answers/ and see what the experts say. Don't ask them how to game the system, just ask them how to get back on Google's good side after something like this happens to the domain name.

Here's a kind of sneaky, back-door way, that shoud work if you control the web server. 1. Get a new domain address (something like the old one, but with a .net or .ws or something like that). 2. On your web server, add a second IP address for the web site. Point it to the same root directory as your old site. 3. Set up the DNS on your new domain address to look at your new address. Then, when the bots come, it will not be able to identify it as a "banned" site, either by IP or address. It will go ahead and index it. 4. Deal with Google at their leisure, and prepare to demonstrate to them that the ownership of the site had changed. Eventually, they will relent and take you off their blacklist (they're good guys). 5. After the site has been white-listed, set up the new web address to simply point to the same IP as the orignal one.

That's a clever idea curtm... but I think pwb might be onto something. I'll try that tonght infact :)

Whups. I wasn't supposed to mark that as a 'best answer' - after all - its not an answer - just a good idea to continue to investigate.

Update: someone added Philly Future to DMOZ (thank you!). Not sure if that's the entire answer however. And Userland can't implement a 302 for me. I will post a question to Google Answers tonight.