Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Is your web site blacklisted by Google?
by Jordan Running May 11th 2006 at 2:00PM
Search engine optimization (SEO) isn't really my scene, but here's a handy tool if you have a sneaking suspicion that your web site has been banned from Google search results: Google Ban Checker. It's a free Windows app that will take a list of web sites and see if they're indexed by Google. On top of that, it will crawl your site(s) and check all of your outbound links to see if you're linking to any sites banned by Google, which can damage your pagerank. The app is intended for small to medium-sized web sites and is a little barebones, but every little bit helps, right?
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james 42 said 4:30PM on 5-11-2006
That looks like a nice little app. I design web pages and have been rather neutral when my clients ask about SEOs (I optimise the pages on my own as best I know how, but it is not a main focus of mine). That is until one of my clients used one, they were a disaster, completely mucked up her site. I found one several places where their 'designer' had four nested tables, nothing in three of the 'wrapper' tables and no style, just nesting craziness. Same with spans. They even managed to remover her page titles. I think all they did was put some meta keywords in (that really does not work) and added her to what amounts to a 'web ring' made up of their other clients. With all that, her traffic has actually fallen over the few months she has used them.
She is back with me now.
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Wit said 2:33AM on 5-12-2006
Of course, you can use it on other sites but your own, e.g. to check out a potential link partner... or even just for "educational purposes"
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Blue_Chi said 3:06AM on 5-12-2006
This tool would've been so much better if actually told you which pages on your website link to the blacklisted websites.
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Jason said 3:02PM on 5-15-2006
Nice app. Yes, it's bare bones, but gets the job done.
I also agree with Blue_Chi. A little more information would be helpful. Maybe even more options such as robots.txt checking or the ability to change the user-agent.
However, it does exactly what it supposed to do. Not much more, but worth the download.
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