3 Easy Tests to See if Google Banned Your Website

I have been asked to look at countless websites where the owner felt Google had banned them.  There are many things that webmasters do that can, will and do cause a ban, but most times I look at a site it has not been banned.

Here are three easy tests you can do to see if Google has banned your site:

No Google Traffic

By this, I mean you have absolutely ZERO visitors coming from Google. Obviously, this only works if your site used to have traffic. Going from even a few hundred visitors per month to no visitors is often a sign your site was banned.

Full URL of a busy page in search box

Copy the full URL of a page that used to have a lot of traffic coming to it. Paste that URL in the Google search box and run a search. If the page does not come up that is a very good sign you have been banned.

Use the site:operator

Enter the following in Google’s search box:

site:yoursite.com

Click search and look at the results. If your website is not listed – you have probably been banned.

If you run the above three tests and each test has the same result of your site not being found – YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED.