Why Were My BANS Sites Removed From Google’s Index?

I am fairly new to Internet marketing and am just now learning how to make money online. One of the first strategies that I am learning to utilize to make money online is eBay’s Partner Network (EPN), utilizing the BANS script. I have run into a few glitches in building my first few BANS stores.

A month ago I jumped on the INFO domain band wagon. I bought 75 of those little buggers. The plan was to build out BANS stores and highly focused niche sites. With the INFO TLD being so cheap this would really make it affordable for me to quickly build a large network of potentially profitable sites. However, it seems as of May 1st Google has done a mass de-indexing of most of the .info TLD.

Before this happened I had already built 5 BANS stores. The sites indexed fairly quickly. But, within a week they were removed from Google’s index. That was around May 1st. A week or so later I built two more BANS sites on INFO domains. I went ahead and built the two sites because I thought they were simply victims of Google’s INFO TLD purge. At first i thought this assertion was correct because these sites were quickly indexed.

I was elated at the prospect that my investment into INFO domains had not been in vain. But, sadly one week later the new sites were also removed from the index. Now being new to BANS and INFO domains and having little experience with SEO in general I am not sure why these sites were removed from Google’s index. However, there are a few possibilities for why these sites were removed from Google’s index.

1. The INFO TLD has fallen out of favor with Google.
2. Google does not like BANS sites (May see them as duplicate content with Ebay).
3. The sites were too heavily optimized for Google.
4. The sites were sand boxed because they were viewed as either spam like or keyword stuffed.
5. The sites were removed from Google’s index because too many links were built to the site too quickly.
6. The sites are in highly competitive niches with a lot of traffic and were sand boxed because they are new. (The vicious Google dance).
7. The sites just simply added no value to Google’s index and were removed.
8. The sites were reported as spam and sis not pass visual inspection.

If the sites were deindexed because of BANS I can change that. If the sites were deindexed due to over optimization, I can fix my optimization techniques. If the sites were de indexed because links were built too fast I can change my tactics. If the sites are simply victims of the Google sand box then I will have slowly develop the sites and wait for them to come out of the sand box. BUT, if the sites were de indexed because Google had a mood swing and decided that most, and therefore all, INFO domains were bad for its algorithm, that I cannot change. I can’t control Google. But, I can control what I do. But, before I can fix the problem with these sites I have to understand the potential issues and how to resolve them.

There has been a lot of speculation on why some BANS sites have been deindexed and others have not. I have made a fairly significant investment in BANS already. This investment has primarily been in time researching and building the BANS sites themselves. The financial investment has only been about $180 dollars; BANS only costs about $97 dollars and the domains cost roughly $80 dollars. At this point its the time that is the most important. So, before I spend any more time building out BANS stores I really want to understand why these sites were deindexed, what I can do to get them reindexed and what I should do to avoid having these sites deindexed in the future.

So why were these site removed from Google’s index. That is precisely the question I am going to try and answer over the next few posts. I am going to look at each potential reason for these sites having been deindexed and try to figure out how to get these sites reindexed and how to keep them indexed.

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