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Posted on January 31, 2007 - Filed Under Tips | 13 Comments
Someone has a website that has been de-indexed. They are not an SEO and have no idea how to report a problem to Google. In my experience when Google gets it wrong they are very interested in looking at the data to improve their search engine algorithm. Many do not know that there is a help center where you can:
Report a problem
- Spammy sites violating Google’s Webmaster Guidelines
- Malicious software that displays weird toolbars, popups, or redirects to strange sites
- Inappropriate or irrelevant search results
- Problems personalizing your Google homepage
- General problems using Google Web Search
Report a legal matter
- Remove information from Google’s search results / Privacy questions
- I have a question about privacy
- I’d like to remove information from Google’s search results
Learn how to
- Personalize my homepage
- Search for something specific
- Delete my search history
Other
- For all other issues
Got a question that can not be answered in Google Groups? Ask it using the Web Search Help Center. Good luck!
June 1st, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Hi,
I would like to report an issue with the following link….
toronto-playmates.worldsuperexchange.info/the-playmates.html – 11k – Supplemental Result -
This comes up when my name is ‘googled’…my google record is important to me as a free lance writer and translator….sometimes, in a pinch, the easiest thing to suggest to a potential client is to ‘google’ me to read some of my published works….
this particular link was a mystery to me, especially with it’s ‘playmate’ reference…so, I went into it and it takes the viewer to a porn site….
is there any way to get this removed from google as I don’t want any potential clients or employers to think that I’m associated with this material?
thanks so much for your help…
Maria DiDanieli
June 1st, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Maria – I do not see the reference when I “google” you. In fact the serp looks very good, your website is #3.
Aaron
June 1st, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Hi Aaron…
it’s on page 6 of my google list…I swear…it’s been there a few days….
Maria
January 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I cannot use the links on my igoogle page to access my email account. It shows my incoming email on the right hand side and I can click on each one individually however, I cannot get into my email to compose, browse, delete, etc. This has been an on going problem for 5 days now. What can I do?
May 20th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
My site was dropped from Google index, cant for the life of me figure out why? any help?
May 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
Dan – Nice product, you are just in need of a little more pagerank, I will add you to my indexing page.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Thanks Aaron, but when I do a search for the Main page the page doesnt show up at all.??
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 am
You main page is indexed:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:redtailtampers.com
Are you talking about showing up in organic search for “RedTail Pipe Tampers”?
See that “More…” link at the bottom of the page? Make that link with the link text of “More Pipe Tampers” cuz using keywords sometimes helps.
I really think with your site it comes down to a few more incoming links and time.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
Ok, Thanks Aaron, I appreciate all the help.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:11 am
There has become a hesitation when trying to get into my email and then I can not check mail as it is frozen for some minutes. Not all the time but I have noticed more hesitation.
September 1st, 2009 at 12:57 pm
HEY! What’s up with gmail?!?!… Keep getting server errors.. Is it down?.. It’s been like an hour now. I have time sensitive e-mails that I cnnot retreive
September 21st, 2009 at 9:16 am
When I use the google Search –whatever I search for comes up in a list —-then I click on the site I want to go to —–It takes me to somewhere else—such as “Yellow pages” or to a list from “Mfeed” or any of many other pages and none what I searched for: Can you give me someplace to go figure out whats happened or tell me how to fix it
October 10th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Today, I saw the following when checking my email. In my chat area of the screen, where my status usually shows, instead – today was the following: ext+1347244386@truphone wants to be able to chat with you. Okay? Following the message was a yes and no button.
Does this mean that my account was hacked, or is this a new advertisment for Google. I did not like that it was there, because it made me feel my information was available as well as my contacts. Please let me know why and how this happened.