To Whom it May Concern,
There has been no spam, hidden text, cloaking on any of our sites since they where launched. But then there are two issues we have fixed lately (even before we got banned) on comfi.com, for which I now write a renclusion request.
1) We had duplicate content on several URLs that were typos of our brand name. About a month ago (10.01.2008) we made 301 redirects from www.cofy.com, www.cofi.com, www.co-fi.com to www.cofi.com (to get off the duplicate content issue as soon as we got aware of it). Now all the domains that had duplicate content are redirecting (different typo URLs) to www.comfi.com can be found only in supplemental results. Is there a problem with making 3 301 redirects at once?
2) We did had paid links bought long ago by a SEO we employed freelance, but after we heard about the revisited guidelines, we fired that SEO and we started to cancell the links. So 2 weeks ago we cancelled the last 8 paid links left at Text Link Ads (some of them are still listed, but we have allready cancelled them) and will never use services of that kind.
With respect to Google,
Sincerely yours
CEO of CoFi
Our site cofi.com no longer comes up for site: or for a search of the URL.
I send this request for reinclusion the next day right after I knew the site is no where to be found in Google’s SERPs, that was yesterday.
Hello Mr. Matt
The previous SEO guy did not used any hidden text, hidden links, or cloaking at none of the pages.
We have never used doorway pages that do a JavaScript redirect.
No automated software was ever used to get links.
What could be against Google’s guidelines was TLA links I’ve been cancelling from the first day at my work as a SEO. The previous SEO had some 60 of them, I’ve cancelled them all and still not all of them are gone and now I ask you for reinclusion in Google index.
As I’m the new SEO allready two weeks for now I promise that it’s not going to happen again. So the TLA links have been cancelled two weeks ago and there will be no more of those. I’ve started a hard-working campaing in writing articles about telecom, as I understand that should not violate the guidelines.
if you have a site in the top positions in an competitive sector you have to do some little seo efforts in order to not lose positions. as everybody around you is doing it. they all buy links, they all exchange links. sometimes really heavy, with not so nice methods.
The site has been submited to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other telecom expert sites.
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=cofi.com
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Communication_and_Information_Management/Telephone_Products_and_Services/
The sit
http://www.reviewcentre.com/
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/
I am desperate to find out why my site has been dumped as I will soon be in dire straights.
If only someone could tell me if I have done something wrong or what it is that I am being penalised for as I simply don’t know and can’t figure it out myself.
Please help.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/#comment-723 organic Google problems have been solved through their AdWords ad reps
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Thanks for this topic, Matt. 3 years have passed since this topic has been launched and still we have no clue what to do next.
I’m an owner of a bussines which heavily relies on online traffic, because we sell online services.
It took me about 40 hours to read all the comments, to find answers to my questions, but I admit that I have failed to find an answer. Similiar questions have been arising (cooment 2821,)
Our website was doing well for 6 years for high ranking keywords. Now, a day after the ban happened I’m trying to figure out what exactly it was. We had 40k visitors from Google per month and no idea what will it become, if there will be no positive answer for the reinclusion request.
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