The travel agency i am working with had it's main website banned by Google a couple of days ago for a reason still unknown to us.
we tried fixing what we think was wrong according to Google's TOS and sent a request for them to rescan it.

in your experience, is it possible to get back on Google or is it a lost case?

it would be a shame to lose it as we worked on developing it for over 3 years and in the past year it has been receiving over 3000 UVs a day.

the site is www.yeshtours.co.il (in hebrew)

a bunch of almost invisible links all pointing back to the home page would almost certainly raise a red flag.
They are only there for one reason.

The page also takes around 12 seconds to load the source (rendering takes a fair bit longer)

Originally Posted by gingimaster

The travel agency i am working with had it's main website banned by Google a couple of days ago for a reason still unknown to us.

and

Originally Posted by gingimaster

we tried fixing what we think was wrong according to Google's TOS

Ouch! This makes my head hurt!

Keep emailing Google and you may get a reprieve from the eletric chair. Next time follow the TOS.

Originally Posted by homebizseo

Keep emailing Google and you may get a reprieve from the eletric chair. Next time follow the TOS.

we're back in business baby!!!
this morning the pages and results started coming back one by one and now we're almost back to our previous positions!

Good for you, your site is back in google. Would you mind sharing how you got back and for what mistakes you went down?

Originally Posted by ourktm

Good for you, your site is back in google. Would you mind sharing how you got back and for what mistakes you went down?

as it is a website hosted by our travel provider, we noticed thx to google webmasters that not all pages we thought we had deleted, were actually deleted. hence it made duplicate pages, we asked the host to delete them and warn all other travel agencies operating the same kind of websites.

we also removed all outgoing sitewide links to our other websites (though they were the same niche).

my boss also informed he had a couple of old domains that were pointing to the same website, so i had them cancel it.

finally, after checking and fixing the last minor problems we found thx to google's webmaster tools (meta erros...) i wrote a very nice mail to google asking them to reconsider our site and scan it.

i suppose the fact the boss start praying didn't harm

if i get banished from google can i get back ?

it's usually pretty difficult to do so, but there is hope mate...

Originally Posted by homebizseo

Keep emailing Google and you may get a reprieve from the eletric chair. Next time follow the TOS.

I don't think google will give you time to answer your problem. I have read in some forums claiming that they email google but got no answers.

Originally Posted by ajcones

I don't think google will give you time to answer your problem. I have read in some forums claiming that they email google but got no answers.

true,
from what i've read on forums and this experience, it seems that Google doesn't talk to us "common people". They just act

If you get banned, you'll have a hard time getting re-listed.

So instead, taking YeshTours.co.il as an example, I'd recommend the following.

1. Make all the necessary changes to meet Google's guidelines.

2. Register a similar domain. Lets say ToursYesh.co.il.

3. Replicate your site for the new domain.

4. Re-direct from your old domain to the new site.

You'll lose a lot of link juice, but it'll get you re-listed and you'll have the same content to rank as you were.

tehfincheh is right,
you should have a "backup plan".
we had a lot of luck and from what i've read and heard chances of getting re-listed are very low, less then 5%

Don't kid yourself and everyone else, you were not banned.

you checked it yourself, you wrote the 2nd post here...

It doesn't say categorically that the site is or was banned.

I pointed out a possible issue, it takes more than a casual look over to determine if a site is actually banned.

Had I seen any real symptoms of a ban, such as no pages appearing for a site: search, or a search for the hostname returning third party pages only, I would have said so.
Even the two checks above are not sufficiently conclusive to determine if it is a definite ban or merely a short lived glitch created by other factors.

i can assure that none of our pages appeared in the results.
having checked on several webmasters forums (DP for example) and talked to SEO experts in person, i was told the site was banned.

let's say for a moment i didn't get banned, what's your problem?
we're giving here tips and advice for people that might get their sites or got their sites banned.
so instead of of posting useless posts, why don't you contribute maybe something of your "great knowledge"?

so instead of of posting useless posts, why don't you contribute maybe something of your "great knowledge"?

Ok on your instructions I'll try harder then.

let's say for a moment i didn't get banned, what's your problem?

I don't have a problem, I'm not doing anything on any sites where I would consider banning to be possiblity.

we're giving here tips and advice for people that might get their sites or got their sites banned.

Are you sure you are posting this at the correct forum?

having checked on several webmasters forums (DP for example) and talked to SEO experts in person, i was told the site was banned.

Ok then, obviously they were absolutely correct then as your website dropped out for a couple of days, then returned.
Mind you I suppose there is far more experience with banned sites at that particular forum!
AND BTW you missed off the quotes around "experts"

the thread started as me having a problem and then just kept going, as a moderator you should have moved it if it wasn't the correct forum.

i think this conversation is getting completely out of topic, so you better close it.

PS, just for you "experts"