Leipzig Trade Fair Returns To Google
It was reported by Google Blogoscoped, reacting to an article appearing in the German online news source Golem.de, that the site Leipzig Trade Fair was banned from Google’s search index for using doorway pages. When Golem’s report hit, the Leipziq site owner had some choice comments about Google’s actions. However, these feelings did not stop the developers from removing the offending redirects and issuing a request for reinclusion.
Now it seems all has been forgiven because the site is back in Google’s index, including Germany’s version. From a webmaster’s perspective, it must be nice to see Google respond so quickly once the necessary corrections are made. Golem’s article hit the web on Saturday (10-21), which indicates the guys at Leipziq Trade Fair were informed of Google’s decision sometime before that. This, in turn, points to the changes being done, the resubmission request being made and acted upon by Google before this past weekend was over.
While being removed from Google’s index is never a positive, it is nice to see them reindex a site so quickly when the penalty items are corrected or removed.
Chris Richardson
Staff Writer | WebProNews
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It took several weeks before the original guy whose pages were removed even got a reply back from Google, according to the guy… and remember, they never informed him in the first place, so we can only guess how many other pages are “quietly” becoming censored in Germany (yes, this only happened on Google.de, the pages weren’t missing on Google.com… one more reason to visit Google.com instead of localized versions).
thanks for the clarification philipp. keep up the excellent work.