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    My site http://bankcd.com disappeared from the index more than a year ago and I've submitted it a few times to http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx without success (site:bankcd.com and url:bankcd.com produce no results). On Dec/13, 2007 I submitted my sitemap address on http://webmaster.live.com/, verified my website (using a META tag on my home page) and validated my robots.txt file.

     

    1) The status indicates:

    Indexed pages: 1

    Last crawled: 0/0/0000

    Blocked: No

    My question: What page is the one supposedly indexed?

     

    2) How can I find out why was my website dropped from the index?

     

    3) How long do I need to leave the verification META tag on my home page? Can I delete it?

    Friday, December 21, 2007 11:36 PM

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    I recommend double checking the webmaster tools. Are you sure you are not blocked?  A website may disappear from search results because it was removed from the Live Search index or it was reported as spam. Occasionally, a website may disappear from search results as we continue to improve our website-ranking algorithms. In some cases, search results may change considerably as we test new algorithms.

     

    I suspect you may need to submit a reinclusion request on the webmaster tools if this is the case.

     

    Let me know if your status has changed and we can take it from there.

     

    Jeremiah

     

     

    Friday, January 4, 2008 1:39 AM

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    I recommend double checking the webmaster tools. Are you sure you are not blocked?  A website may disappear from search results because it was removed from the Live Search index or it was reported as spam. Occasionally, a website may disappear from search results as we continue to improve our website-ranking algorithms. In some cases, search results may change considerably as we test new algorithms.

     

    I suspect you may need to submit a reinclusion request on the webmaster tools if this is the case.

     

    Let me know if your status has changed and we can take it from there.

     

    Jeremiah

     

     

    Friday, January 4, 2008 1:39 AM
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    How can I know if my website is blocked other than checking the webmaster tools? When I wrote the previous post, webmaster tools indicated: “Blocked: No”, now it indicates: “No data is available”. Also, “Top links to” shows links from very reputable sites (eg, Forbes.com). Since my website has been out of the index for over a year, I don’t think this is a temporary issue.

     

    I’ve submitted reinclusion requests many times. At about the same time I posted I received a reply from Microsoft Global Escalations indicating that they have resubmitted it to the index and to wait 3-4 weeks. However I’ve not received a reply to my questions below. Can you help?

     

    1) How can I find out why was my website dropped from the index? (I want to prevent it from happening again).

     

    2) How long do I need to leave the verification META tag on my home page? Can I delete it?

    Tuesday, January 8, 2008 2:36 AM