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If your web site has been banned from Google it will no longer show up in any search results. For many this can lead to a considerable drop in web site traffic and can even force web site owners to abandon their site due to difficulty in making revenue. So how do you unban your web site from Google?

First of all think about why your site has been banned in the first case. To start with, are you sure that you have actually been banned by Google? To find out if you’ve been banned simply search for your entire URL at Google – if there are no results then the chances are that you’ve been banned. Remember though, if your site is new then it will also show no results in Google so this is only a reliable check if your site is at least a month or two old.

If your site was banned for a valid reason then you probably should have a good think as to what caused it. For example, you may have violated Googles webmaster guidelines which means you have done something which they do not approve of. If this is something small all you need to do is correct your site so that it fully complies with the webmaster guidlines and you can move on to the next step. If however you’ve done something a bit more serious like duplicating other sites content, using cloaking or any else like that then it is likely that Google will not unban your site.

So if you still think that you haven’t done anything wrong and that your site fully complies with Googles webmaster guidlines then you can request a reconsideration of your site. This is where you send a request to Google to manually take a look at your site. Someone will then either approve or decline the request and depending on the outcome your site may be unbanned from Google. The down side to this though is that asking Google to unban your site can take quite a while and you won’t receive a reply from them if and when it happens. It’ll be up to you to keep an eye on the search results to see if your site reappears.

To unban your site from Google log in to Google webmaster central which provides you with a suite of tools to manage and monitor your site within Google. Add your site by clickikng on the “Add a site” button and make sure that you verify it If you don’t verify your site then you will not be able to ask Google to unban your site. Once verified go back to the main page of webmaster central and on the left hand side click on “Site reconsideration”, or click here.

You;ll then have to fill out a tiny form which will be sent to Google. Over the next month or so every so often keep checking Googles search results to see if they have unbanned your site. If they have then congratulations! If however after a couple of months they have not unbanned your site and your site is still not showing in Google then it is probably safe to assume that they think your site still does not comply with the guidelines or your doing something else wrong.

So that’s how you unban your web site from Google.