Deindexed Checker
How do I Check If My Site is Deindexed?
Search engines can impose many penalties to any website and domain for breaking any of their guidelines at any time. The worste penalty is a complete deindexing of your pages and domain name. The result is instant death to your traffic, any future potential earnings from organic website traffic disappears. The most common reasons include bad or duplicate content, linking to other banned sites, cross linking schemes and poor coding of your website.
Do not confuse a poorly built site resulting in weak listings in the search engines with a complete ban or deindexing. A deindexed site has been completely removed from a search engines database after being indexed for a measurable amount of time. If your site is brand new give it time to get spidered and listed and check the results often, be patient.
Is your site realley deindexed? or do you, your search engine optimization company, or even your web designer just really stink at the job of creating, coding and link building?
Use the steps below to check if your pages, sites and domain names are banned a.k.a deindexed.
Deindexing Checking Tools
For the information and steps below replace FullDomainName.com with the actual domain name your are checking.
1. First type your “FullDomainName.com” and then try “www.FullDomainName.com” into the query fields of Google, Yahoo, and MSN Live.They are the search engines currently responsible for the most traffic on the internet at this time. If any pages from your domain show up in the results, then have a sigh of relief because your site is indexed.
2. Second type “site:FullDomainName.com” and “site:www.FullDomainName.com” into the query field for Google or Yahoo. Type “url:FullDomainName.com” to check MSN Live Search. If anything shows up besides “did not match any documents” then you’re domain is not deindexed.
3. Each of the three major search engines offer free tools and site diagnostics for webmasters, sign up for free accounts with Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, and Live Search Webmaster Center. The information is very extensive and often will report about any issues with your domain and pages they came across when they spidered your pages. These accounts will even give information for deindexed sites with tips and how to re-apply for indexing.
Why are The Major Factors That Contribute to Deindexing of Websites?
1. You cross linked your own domain names and sites because they are already listed. You think you are a genious! You believed that you would instanly have potentially hundreds of links pointing to eachother. This does not work, all your websites will eventually be deindexed. Never link one of your websites to another that you own unless they are completely relevant to eachother and unique. I would suggest you never cross link your own site period.
2. You code for the website you built has many errors. The search engine spiders choke when they try to follow and read your website. The search engines will give up coming to your site. Always validate your code, fix any errors. Make all the links to subpages easy and simple to follow, build a good link structure.
3. You refuse to take the webmaster guidelines given to you on the search engine sites, FOR FREE, seriously. You think you can trick the engines and try silly linking schemes to achieve higher listings. These bad ideas have been done over and over and the engines know all of the tricks and even any new ones you can come up with so don’t do it. You tried black hat or gray hat SEO methods. You will maybe get results for a short period of time but your domain name will get deindexed, so do not use black hat tricks.
4. You renamed the pages and files on your site and now you have many error pages and page not found redirects. Redirects and bad error handling can lead to your site getting deindexed.
5. Have a good robots text file and validate the file. Do not accidentally disallow the major search engine spiders from accessing your site.
6. You do not use canocalization for your web site. Canocalization means you have eithor told the search engines or changed you htacces file to default to eithor use www. or not use www to acces your website. Using canocalization stops duplicate error penalties, search engines consider www.FullDomainName.com and FullDomainName.com as two seperate pages. type deindexed.com into your query box and you will see the url defaults to use www. automatically and correctly following the guidelines set out by the search engines.
Their are hundreds of other reasons and I hope to cover as many as I can in the future posts on Deindexed.com
