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Originally posted by XM
If you are getting grey bar, the following applies:
Enter domain URL into google search box. If you get result "Sorry, no information is available for the URL blahblahblahblah.com" + following 2 options:
If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: blahblahblahblah.com
Find web pages that contain the term "blahblahblahblah.com"
the site has not been indexed by Google yet.
example: http://www.google.com/search?q=blahblahblahblah.com
If you DON'T get the option "If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: blahblahblahblah.com "
site has been BANNED from google.
XM
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XM,
This may be true for a few (or most, as people in other forum seem to have concluded) cases, but not always; the case below, for example, is an exception.
WiredGuy,
I know you research this stuff much more than me (particulartly the long, inconclusive discussions about PR0, gray bar, penalties, bans, etc), but this may be useful for you.
I once was in the process of exchanging links with a PR6 site (I mean, I was writing the HTML to link back to the site); after I uploaded my page, I checked the other site and it had a gray bar; I checked out the usual places, the dance was still far away; at the same time, several sister sites of that PR6 went gray (later on, I saw some shady techniques on all of them). *My* conclusion: those sites were
manually banned; I saw a ban happening right before my eyes.
OTOH, all instances when I saw a site getting a PR0, it happened after a dance (*my* conclusion: PR0 and other penalties are applied by algorithms).
brazzb at yahoo dot com