Hello fellow blogger! It has been a while since my last post. I’m not back yet. I still have another month of hard work at the emergency room.
Today’s post is a short one and is kind of a complain to google. If you haven’t known, google seems to be on a quest to bring down Bans sites. Every day we see someone complaining that google has de indexed their BANS stores, even when they have developed the site with tons of original content. People kind of freaked out and started to develop Wordpress + Bans Stores. This seems to be the right path (?). So i hope.
Personally my experience with bans had better days. In august i had a website that was making me some good money, but google de indexed it. Since then i have been trying to get my site back to google index. I have changed the site to a wordpress platform with a store and still, it remains de indexed…. Then i decided to create a new site with a wordpress+bans site. I made the content first, edited everything i needed to do first before making the site available to google. A week has passed and not a single page was indexed. On the other hand, a simple wordpress site i have made at the same time the wordpress+bans site was indexed…
We all know that google penalizes bans stores, but is it possible it is starting to penalyze Wordpress+BANS sites? I really hope not. I will give some more time to google index my new site before i take measures.
Another thing that pisses me off is that i have a couple of bans stores that i created with the sole purpose of testing and get to know the script. Oddly enough 2 of those stores bring me revenue… I say oddly enough because i haven’t done anything to improve them, they are just like any other bans store, with no meta tag, description optimization…. Nothing!!! But still they are indexed, they bring me visitors,they bring me money!! And this pisses me off because the other 2 stores where i spent hours of my time doing everything that is needed to make the store successful, fail to get indexed at google or simply were deindexed…
What is your experience lately with BANS Sites and google?
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It doesn’t surprise me at all. Google is easy on the trigger with websites built strictly for monetization without bringing anything useful to the end user. They killed a lot of MFA (Made for Adsense) websites a while ago and now will probably do the same with BANS website…
Google is killing thin affiliate sites. I agree with this measure. But it seems google is completely failing this. Every day i find a site that is a thin affiliate site with no content what so ever, but rank well for the search terms i use… Stores well developed get penalyzed… It’s strange… almost like a paradox…
Yea people have been up about this for a bit now. It does seem that blog+bans is the trick…for now.
so far my experience with wp+bans sites isn’t going very well
The same thing happened to me. I have a really valuable domain but now it is de-indexed thanks to BANS.
is is a stand alone site with bans or do you use WP+bans combination?
Someone came to me telling me they got their Adsense account banned for using it on a BANS site. Please be careful here.
i don’t use adsense on my bans sites….
This is precisely the reason why developers don’t like Google. We don’t know what arbitrary penalties they have on any site or page and it is clear that they do apply weird penalties. They probably won’t show you because they would get sued if they did.
Ben commented:
>Google is easy on the trigger with websites built strictly for monetization without bringing anything useful to the end user.
I think Ben meant quick on the trigger but I agree.
I don’t know anything about BANS but I see in your post is seems to be a business in a box to be an eBay affiliate. So from Google’s perspective how much value are these sites adding to their searchers?