A few points to take from this experiment

A few points to take from this experiment

- You can recover deindexed sites, even if your site was a load of shit

- You must make prettify your site dramatically to recover your site

• custom logo
• remove old content that might be “thin”
• remove content that’s similar to other content on your site
• don’t have content that’s thinly targetting google keyword tool long tail results
• ensure your site has plenty of content (i’d say at least 10 pages of content, preferably 20ish+)

- Make sure to write a long paragraph in the reinclusion form stating your intent to make a community-based site that’s all about quality

- If your site is about a specif topic (especially in the health niche or about something salesy), make sure to change to site to be something community orientated. Convert the site into a forum only site (you can swap it back after you get back in the index), add a bunch of community features, etc.

- Sites that have spammy domains or real longtail domains may struggle to get reindexed. You’ll have to work extra hard with a site like this. I suggest making sure the logo is a custom one and NOT the domain name. Also change the title to something general.

- If you get rejected, KEEP SUBMITTING NEW RE-INCLUSION REQUESTS OVER AND OVER (could be one quality reviewer might accept what another rejects)

- The Google Search Quality Team that reviews your website will be from India

I made substantial changes to the site the first time around and in my mind, the changes were good enough to get the site reindexed. Apparently not. Now it could have just been the mood of whoever reviewed the site (the first review spent less than 30 seconds on the index page before rejecting my request, the second reviewer spent 12 minutes shuffling through my site). So tinkering with the look of the site and making a couple surface changes might not be enough to fix your site. You can try, but you may have to significantly beef up the content, remove content that’s thin, etc.

I hope this case study /experiment has been helpful to you folks and I’m glad the experiment proved successful. So if you have a money making site that gets the boot, it’s totally possible to restore the site to Google’s good graces. You just might need to revamp the site dramatically and submit multiple re-inclusion requests. There is that saying that’s true: The Squeaky Wheel Get’s the Oil.
Cheers from Thailand