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Basically try not to ‘game’ or make a fool of Google. You might think you’re always one step ahead but when you’re slapped with a ban, there’s no turning back. Bear in mind that before any ban was made, Google review team will review thoroughly your blog before preceding with the ban.

The ban is absolute but Alex from net-entrepreneur.com told me otherwise. He says “There is a turning back though.. You can write an email saying that you’re. aware that you were in breach of the TOS, and that since then you’ve removed the forbidden elements from the site. You kindly ask them to reconsider their decision and invite them to visit the site for another quality inspection”

But still its better to play by the rule. The peace of mind knowing that you’re safe is far better than fearing when is the day your site will be discovered using blackhat SEO. So far I’ve comply with all Google TOS and if you do too, you won’t find yourself in this predicament in the first place

So to check if your blog has been banned by Google you can

Method 1. Use this tool

http://www.iwebtool.com/google_banned

Method 2. Go to Google search engine

Search for site: YourSiteNameHere.Com in Google. If nothing is listed then you are banned.

Method 3. A confirmation email

If Google banned your Site, You will be receive an email from “Google Search Quality Team”

First Google will check the whois of your domains. If you using domain whois privacy or whois broken, Google will try send email to you by the the below format of the domain:

contact@siteurl.com,
info@siteurl.com,
support@siteurl.com,
webmaster@siteurl.com

Sample Email

Subject : Removal from Google’s Index

Dear site owner or webmaster of SiteURL.com,

While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that were outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, we have temporarily removed some webpages from our search results. Currently pages from siteurl.com are scheduled to be removed for at least 30 days.

Specifically, we detected the following practices on your webpages (which you did):

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don’t send automated queries to Google.
• Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don’t create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first

We would prefer to have your pages in Google’s index. If you wish to be reincluded, please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines. When you are ready, please visit:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to…nclusion?hl=en

to learn more and request a reconsideration request.

Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team

Well do take my advice. Longevity is what you need to be in this money making niche and not some ban. Don’t get a bad rep and all your chances to make money online are burnt. Good luck!