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Finally, I am ranking highest for (bctutor dot com) on yahoo. No response from google though. It seems very strange that I don't even have 1 pagerank on google. I can't find my site at all on google. Can anyone give any suggestions?

It seems like my site got banned from google's indexes and I have no idea why or what should I do now. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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Short, practical checklist tied to the thread: if your site appears in Yahoo but not in Google it can be caused by technical blocks, a manual action, or simply a lack of trust signals for a new domain. and are on the right track — start by verifying the site in Google Search Console and use the URL Inspection / Coverage reports to see exactly why pages aren’t indexed (noindex rules, robots blocks, server errors, or manual actions are reported there). (developers.google.com)

Quick tech triage (run these now):

  • Confirm there’s no blocking robots.txt at the site root and that pages don’t send a noindex meta or X-Robots-Tag header (a noindex won’t be seen if robots.txt blocks crawling).
  • Check HTTP status codes for your key pages (200 vs 4xx/5xx) and look for soft-404s. A simple header check is useful: 
    curl -I https://example.com/

    Fix any 5xx/403 problems or firewall rules that block crawlers. (developers.google.com)

Policy and reputation checks:

  • Look in Search Console’s Manual Actions and Security Issues reports. If there’s a manual action, correct the cause and submit a review through Search Console; if hacked or flagged for malware, follow the security cleanup flow and request a security review. Only consider the Disavow tool if you have clear unnatural links or a manual-action related link problem. Also note the “sandbox” idea is anecdotal — new sites often need time to build trust, but it’s not a different channel you can email to remove. (developers.google.com)

Next steps and expectations:
Fix blockers, resubmit your sitemap, use URL Inspection to ask Google to recrawl fixed URLs, and check server logs to confirm Googlebot access. Reindexing can take days to weeks (domain-level reputation improvements can take longer). If nothing shows in Search Console after cleanup, capture examples (URL Inspection screenshots, logs) and pursue a Search Console review or post the evidence in the webmaster help forum. (developers.google.com)

(Note: and ’s suggestions about cleanup and patience are sensible — combine them with the steps above for a practical recovery path.)

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Member Avatar for jewboy

To find out if you are included in google, type in the following:

site:yourdomain.com

If 0 results are returned, you are not indexed.

To find out if you are banned, download the Google Toolbar. A grey bar means you are banned. Have you tried any overagressive blackhat techniques that would lead you to believe so?

Member Avatar for TopDogger

If it's a new site, you are probably stuck in the Google Sandbox. A site that is Sandboxed will show up using the "site" query, as pointed out by Avi, but it will not rank well for any competitive phrases for 5 to 8 months, and sometimes up to a year.

If it's an older site, it may be heavily penalized or banned.

Member Avatar for Mr.'BackUp'

If your site is kicked out of the index for 'whatever' it will usually come back after 60 days if the thing that triggered the penalty has been removed. You also can send them a reinclusion request email to after you have cleaned up your site. If you are still having problems after emailing them a few times you can call them at 650-330-0100.

Member Avatar for jewboy

I have learned that Google is experimenting with a new email notification system that tells members "why" they were banned. Hopefully we all never recieve this email!

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