Ok so I needed to redirect my main page to get visitors into our shopping cart right away.... Unfortunately I didn't know the difference between a 301 redirect and a javascript redirect or whatever at that time...

We USED to be a PR5...

now a 0 it seems!

After a while I noticed google banned us and didn't index our site anymore! I finally realized the reason was because of my redirect (now I have learned that a lot of Spamming sites use the same type of redirect I had )

Well now I am using the proper 301 redirect but I want to know if anyone happens to know if google will ever index me again? Am I permenantly banned from them? this sucks... I was doing great until then!

Submit a reinclusion request
http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py

Tell them why you think you got banned and what you have done to fix the problem.

Originally Posted by AirAndAqua.com

Ok so I needed to redirect my main page to get visitors into our shopping cart right away.... Unfortunately I didn't know the difference between a 301 redirect and a javascript redirect or whatever at that time...

We USED to be a PR5...

now a 0 it seems!

After a while I noticed google banned us and didn't index our site anymore! I finally realized the reason was because of my redirect (now I have learned that a lot of Spamming sites use the same type of redirect I had )

Well now I am using the proper 301 redirect but I want to know if anyone happens to know if google will ever index me again? Am I permenantly banned from them? this sucks... I was doing great until then!

Aw, I'm so sorry for you but if you had a PR05 then it's for a darn good reason. You obviously have a good site with good Web Content Mass, Keyword Optimization and Links in. So if you investigate this so called "blacklist" you could be on and make sure your not on it I bet you'll be fine!

Yeah, I don't know what happened... This is really my first business website.. I happened to do all the right things without knowing a thing or two about SEO... after I started learning SEO things just got better for us.... I really have a strong feeling the redirect got us banned from google

I did use their feedback form to ask about reinclusion... hopefully that helps

You're not banned. So filing a reinclusion request won't do you any good.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...airandaqua.com

The problem is that Google doesn't understand your redirect. And why do you even have one? Everything should point back to your home page. In other words, whatever is at www.airandaqua.com/sunshop is what should ACTUALLY be at www.airandaqua.com .

In other words, the best thing you can do is to lose the redirect entirely, unless you want to redirect your non-www pages to your www pages (e.g. http://airandaqua.com redirects via 301 to www.airandaqua.com).

You should create more backlinks for your other than homepage pages.

thanks for the advice everyone.

I only redirect to sunshop because I wanted the customers to land right in the shopping cart where most of the files are PHP, I kind of have to get the customers to go back and forth between PHP and HTML files.... I am maybe not using the best shopping cart because I don't really know how I can integrate the shopping cart into all of my html... any ideas?