Google Banned Us – Please Help!

hookah · #1 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 01:08 PM

Over the last couple days our Google rankings have totally disappeared for our site http://www.hookahhub.com . It now appears we’ve been penalized and banned. The only thing we can find are the 301 redirects we use for http://www.hookahub.com and http://www.shishahub.com and the white text we use for our section headings such as “Find Products”. This white heading text is needed due to the dark red background. Please visit our site http://www.hookahhub.com and please make any suggestions you may have. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

onlinetv · #2 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 01:53 PM

Your site is simple and who knows why google has you at low rankings. You should look at some of the other threads here to see how to move yourself up. Some of us think they are looking to sell adwords.

I like how you developed that site over the year. I saw the one last year. You have a lot of links to your other thinks and maybe one of them is a spammer, a famous one? Also you can link to cannabisfarmer.com and artandjrollins.com they would give you a link back. I know those guys. You are in a harsh market, no one wants smoke around anymore.

bhartzer · #3 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 02:56 PM

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It now appears we’ve been penalized and banned.

The site is not banned in Google. I do, however, suggest that you pick one domain name and redirect all the others, with a 301 Permanent Redirect, to that main domain. Otherwise, you will get banned in Google.

hookah · #4 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 03:02 PM

We had dozens of keywords that were all in the top 10-20 that were dropped from the Google SERPS over a 48 hour period?

The other domain names are all pointing to our main domain name, www.hookahhub.com and they are all using 301 redirects. Any other suggestions?