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07-26-2007, 01:22 PM
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uncoverthenet.com banned by Google!
Just noticed this!

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07-26-2007, 01:49 PM
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Looks that way to me too (using google.com/ instead of google.com.hk/).
This isn't the first time this directory has had problems:
http://utnblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/...h-my-gosh.html
Looks like the directory has been gray-barred, but the home page still has toolbar PR.
Last edited by Bernard; 07-26-2007 at 02:17 PM..
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07-27-2007, 06:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernard
Looks like the directory has been gray-barred, but the home page still has toolbar PR.
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Will see what happens in the coming update. Surprisingly they do claim they get well over 02 milliion visitors per month. Could that be true? 
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08-11-2007, 02:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by maldives
Will see what happens in the coming update. Surprisingly they do claim they get well over 02 milliion visitors per month. Could that be true? 
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According to Compete.com ( http://siteanalytics.compete.com/uncoverthenet.com) they got 864000 US visitors so if you also count non-US traffic that could be true.
/Andreas
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07-27-2007, 02:18 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by maldives
Just noticed this!

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if you had posted this earlier
I would have stopped my bot from indexing it!
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07-27-2007, 07:17 AM
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I wonder why. Don't see anything penalty-worthy there.
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07-27-2007, 01:01 PM
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Hmmm..I smell fishy here... Maybe some unethical techniques...
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07-28-2007, 04:17 PM
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I am not sure about the pagerank comment , in my toolbar its showing pr of 6 though.
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07-28-2007, 08:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunny
I am not sure about the pagerank comment , in my toolbar its showing pr of 6 though.
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I still see the directory pages gray barred and the home page with PR 6.
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07-29-2007, 05:51 AM
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I was talking with someone today about this and they mentioned that there were some recent changes to the structure (url rewrite) so all of the urls below the home page are new, so yes = grey bar.
I'd give it awhile before thinking it was something sinister. I'm told there's some comments on the blog about the changes and some one mentioned they noted some errors.
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07-29-2007, 10:34 AM
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Thanks Debbie. That might explain the PR, but it doesn't explain the lack of site: results or complete absense from the SERPs.
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07-28-2007, 05:57 PM
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Join Date: 07-28-07
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i listed a few sites there a while back, i want my money back 
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07-29-2007, 10:55 AM
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Odd how not even the home page is indexed. Like somebody did a removal request or something.
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07-29-2007, 11:41 AM
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Your search - site:uncoverthenet.com - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.
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Aawww. That must hurt. 
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07-29-2007, 11:45 AM
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I did a search for uncoverthenet.com at both google.com and google.com.hk and it came up fine both insances, so I would say they did some type of major change site local that is causing it to have to be reindexed.........
"...In order to make sure your web site is not banned by Google, you can search Google for your site's address. If the address is in the search results, this means the site is NOT banned and you can relax and not to pay any attention to the temporary bug with N/A pagerank.
In this case everything should be back to normal state in 2-3 days. ..."
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08-07-2007, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by thegamerslink
I did a search for uncoverthenet.com at both google.com and google.com.hk and it came up fine both insances,
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Can you post a screen shot? I'm still not finding them in any SERPs.
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08-07-2007, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Google.com
Your search - site: www.uncoverthenet.com/ - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.
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Wonder why. Seems a bit harsh.
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08-08-2007, 06:33 AM
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Is it a case of some Black hat SEO, that got them banned!
Really strange.
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08-08-2007, 06:52 AM
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Does seem very odd, I always thought that was one of the better directories too.
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08-08-2007, 07:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Red_Virus
Is it a case of some Black hat SEO, that got them banned!
Really strange.
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What BH tactic were they using?
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