Site ban

[sfowler]

Just as a pure matter of interest, do sites that have been banned still get crawled and indexed in the background, so to speak? This would mean that any changes made during a ban would be available immediately the ban was lifted. Or do they get flagged and avoided?

[bhartzer]

Yes, they generally still get crawled. If they are PR0'd then they may not get crawled as much. But, if the site still has a decent PR then it will get crawled as usual.