If you think your site may have been banned by Google, here is some more info. According to this site (http://www.searchenginehonesty.com/ ) there are a large number of possible reasons a site could be banned. One reason mentioned was having a large number of outgoing links. Also, having a server that sends the same page for http://www.somename.com and somename.com can apparently cause banning because of "duplication".Apparently more and more legitimate sites are being caught in the crossfire between Google and the spammers!I don't think either of those reasons would result in your site being banned. Practicaly every site on the internet displays the same page for http://www.domain.com and domain.com. If google don't like it they should modify the way they index sites.And dmoz have million of outgoing links, It hasn't done them any harm. Google rely on sites linking to each other.There is a lot of scaremongering about around the way google are out to shaft webmasters.I guess it explains why there are so many threads like "I had a sausage sandwhich for breakfast, How will this effect my PageRank?"The site I mentioned above has a study showing "massive" banning by google of sites that use any Open Directory data. I have seen claims by webmasters to the effect that adding a "links page" caused them to be banned.I don't think having a site that responds to "www.somename.com" as well as "somedomain.com" is all that likely to get banned but it could well lose PR if some people are linking to one form of the page and some to the other. If you look at a search engine results page and see some of your pages listed one way and some the other way, that can't be good.I don't think PR is just a "page" thing but also takes in some "site" things. If so you don't want to split your benefit between two "sites".Quote:
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