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What to do when search engine blacklists website

There will be occasions when your website might be thrown out of a search engine (or banned or blaclisted) for no reason at all. Actually you may not even have done anything wrong at all and you may still be thrown out. Why would that be? If you follow standard web design practices and a substantial number of websites start to employ the same tricks, it is not uncommon for search engines to penalize all websites so that they can control search engine manipulation - so common among SEO firms. In other words, you are simply a victim of search engine algorithm change. What can you do if a search engine blacklists your website? You can write to them. However, except for Google , do not even expect that your email will be read by a human being. You might simply receive an automated response. With the huge number of websites on the Internet and the number of emails that the search engine staff might receive, it is unreasonable for you to expect that someone will actually read that email. Mos