I have lost my website traffic a sudden. Google was the only source of traffic for my website. The only thing immediately came into mind was that Google has banned me or penalized my website ranking. But I was not sure, in fact initially I was not even aware of Google Penalty but when I gone through from many articles and Google webmaster guidelines I came to know that punishment from Google really exists. Though I was not aware with this before but now I knows the difference. If your website has been penalized by Google, it means Google has imposed a penalty on your domain and you will loose your rank. The penalty will remain until your website is clean from their violations while if Google ban your website you will not be having your website listed in Google index which means you have been de-listed or block from Google search.
My Story of News Website Banned by Google
It seems Google is going to crack down on all News websites which are formed by individuals. Why I noticed that is because I myself was banned when I was running a news website www.newsatweb.com in past. When my website has been started up generating Good revenue I employed few staff and speedup the work but after a short while I have been banned completely. Obviously I was not generating my news and all my work was not copy/past but it was copy/re-written, even though it is violation and now I understand this.
Google will Forgive and Lift the Ban?
I don’t think so Google will lift the ban from an news website violating quality guidelines. Except real international and local news websites, all individual news websites are based on copy and paste or rewritten content which strictly violated Google terms. I my self tried very hard to remove the penalty after lots of modifications in website and repeated consideration requests but Google did not given me a chance because Google knew I am not a real news source. So do not waste your time in this and try some thing real in which you can put your real efforts, uniqueness and quality.
A Natural or Human Mistake?
Look, why do you think it is Google who penalized or banned your website? May be this is disappearance is your own caused human mistake? Just like error in your robot.txt, your website sitemap or any similar activity which has forced search engine to show this behavior. The very first workaround would be to investigate your wesbite setup. Go to depth if you find any thing missing or malicious in your website.
Copied Website Content?
Remember Google is very strict with their quality concerns. If Google is redirecting heavy traffic to your website, giving you a reasonable rank, helping you for potential earnings then it is responsibility that your website should comply to their quality guidelines. Google do not wants any money to get you listed in their search engines, Google sending traffic to your website for free then why you are making you trick by having copied or poor content? Think on this.
Do You own a Spam Website?
If you own a website with spammy contents, Google will not let you stay for longer in their search results. This is an straight violation of Google terms. The reason is simple, you are supposed to offer quality contents instead client lands on your pages and found nothing for what he was looking for. There is absolutely no need to have spammy pages, if you are a serious webmaster you should follow the Google guidelines.
