is my site banned from google?
 

Hello there.

I have a site which I abandoned couple months ago has an issue with the google.
Usually when I search

site:abc.com

It returns with the crawled results by the google but my site has no result.
I have checked a few sites that says my site is not blocked by any list or by google but idk why it happened.

Anybody have any idea?

One of Google's latest updates deindexes sites that are too slow, might be it but just guessing.

Well, pageinsights says it's fast and page experience is %99.6.
But still couldn't figure out why my site is not indexed.

it may not be a total fail
 

Hey, what is your url? What is your skype maybe we can figure this one out together

I think we have a bingo

You hit the nail on the head
 

Ring around the rosie

If your site is actually banned and you have it linked with Google Search Console, you will know immediately. Try the security and manual actions tab.

Quite a few years back I bought a domain name that I couldn't believe was available at the time. Built a site around it turned out the URL was seriously banned due to malicious activity. Tried to appeal it 3 times and Google would have no part of it
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This is patently false. :1orglaugh

Yup.

You can also just add it to Search Console if it never was, verify it, then within a couple days it'll have this information.

Also, check your robots.txt etc. Maybe you added noindex to something you shouldn't have.

Really? Because I just talked to an SEO expert at a large adult company we all know, and he asked me what the latest update was to test me, and that's what he said when I got it wrong.. lol :upsidedow

I really don't know.. :( lol

Yeah, that convo never happened. :thumbsup

If it did, they should fire that guy immediately.

I know it sounds stupid but I swear I'm not lying. I can PM you about it if you'd like.
He might not be there anymore, though, their employees keep leaving..

Pants on fire!!!!!!

lol. I can tell the whole story soon, just give me a little bit because I'm still talking to them, it's more than just that.. :upsidedow

I don't really care what they have to say about it. It's false information. They're either lying to you or stupid. :thumbsup

Oh I believe you, I think it's the latter... :upsidedow

no error or notifiacation in google search console.
something funny going on here.

Maybe try the site command with and without www. in front.

When I search your brand, the index is there, so you're not totally delisted.

Your robots.txt is fine, too. CWV is fine. You have a ton of outbounds but that wouldn't do it.

Not really sure. I've never seen this. Best I can guess is that Google really doesn't like you for some reason so they don't view any of those pages as relevant.

If it's your username + .com, it's crawled, not indexed. I think it's a low content issue. When I look at a video page, besides the player, I see around 20 words which aren't clickable links, the rest of the content are all links. Could be seen as spammy.

Video thumbnails are still indexed though.

Did that happen around June 30th?

..I'm not sure, I'm going to read up on that today and figure it out lol. :upsidedow

Yeah, all good points. I don't really see how that site adds any value personally.

It never happened.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/...odcast/408345/

Literally all you need to read.. where you'll find out that, like I said, it never happened. :winkwink:

Thanks!

Then why did AWE's SEO guy tell me that? I was confused, too, because before that Skype call I read up on the last couple of updates and didn't read that part anywhere. Closest thing was a few updates ago where speed helped, but not deindexed.

I dunno. Why'd they hire someone who doesn't know what they're talking about? Why do a lot of companies in our industry do that?

Why does being the SEO director for a company that mostly focuses on PPC and media buying for traffic make them an "expert" in your mind? Most of their SE traffic is their brand. :winkwink: This is something that my dog can achieve, especially on an authority domain.

True, that's why I was trying to get in.. lol. I know that they don't really do SEO at all, and made me wonder what their SEO expert did since they have/had? one..

I have a similar problem in that the home page of one of my blogs does not appear as the first result for searches. I can only find it if I do a specific search for text on the page.

I've checked the Manual Actions etc in the Google console but nothing.

I am thinking that it is either do to an incompatibility I had with Yoast and another plugin which screwed up titles, or that it is an AI ban in that my site is not trusted to rank for the terms it has.

I've fixed the Yoast issue and I will see where it goes.

Lots of reasons, this might help:
https://www.seoblog.com/website-homepage-isnt-ranking/

Pay attention to the branding part of his link.

There's even big adult paysite operations who fail pretty miserably at this. :thumbsup

Thank you all for your valuable comments.
I think content is the key issue here. I should add more text to the main page.
Thanks.