Re: Victim of US/China politics, or simply bad luck?

On 11 Feb 2006 22:34:12 -0800, "GlobeTrekker" <SeeLaiHK@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi everyone,

While I am replying to this message from Borek, I am actually asking
for help from every/anyone. Many thanks in advance. Please scroll down
and read after Borek's message. Sorry if I don't understand the
etiquette here...

Borek wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:55:09 +0100, GlobeTrekker <SeeLaiHK@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I know. If there were any child-porn or even mention of say Tibet,
Taiwan, or Tiananmen Square posts at my site/blog, then I wouldn't be
complaining here at this group/forum. Besides, I post soft-porn
pictures of Asian (mostly Japanese) models and their pictures are all
over the Internet and other sites hosting their pictures are still
indexed and have a PR (Page Rank) of 5, 6, or above!

Anyway, in short, the models at my site are all above 21 years old, and
no, there are no underage models. Also, I avoid obscene words like f*ck
and use alternatives like "bonk." So what gives?

And even though I do criticize Hong Kong or China politicians, I do
refrain from using the three T's - Tibet, Taiwan, and Tiananmen at my
site. OK, I did mention Taiwan a couple of times.

Been to your site - no idea why you get banned.

Browsed few pictures - they are as pornographic as any Playboy picture.

I also doubt there is a political reason - there is a huge difference
between censoring content and not serving some queries to China and
banning sites. Google engineers are not that stupid to not understand that
CNN may quote some Chinese disidents criticizng Chinese government - and
that's not the reason to ban CNN.

Note that my opinion is based only on the look and feel of what browser
renders, I have not looked much deeper.

Perhaps you have accidentally triggered some of G filters? You have many
links to other blogs on your main page, perhaps they link back to you and
it was recognized as some kind of link farm or something?

Best,
Borek
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All right. Here are additional details to this problem:

I managed to get in touch with a human via phone in Google's office in
US. I spoke to a lady, who actually was a receptionist, and she
listened to my problem and details with great patience and was very
kind.

She then suggested I resend my email (regarding the original complain
of why my site was banned), to another internal google email she gave
me (No, I won't disclose that email here, yet).

Well, I did resend the complain and all correspondence that has taken
place so far. That was like one week ago. Nothing. No reply, no
response, etc.

Now, I read one of the recent comments here that if there is some
problem with my site (which I am unaware of - as in 302 redirects,
etc.) and if I resubmit - reinclusion - then I am committing suicide,
as in Google wouldn't give me another chance

Um, I believe that was from some new guy here I personally never heard
of. I wouldn't take his opinions too seriously, from what I've seen of
them. There's a handful of us (we know who we are, I believe) who know
that we know what we're talking about and we know that because we've
come to respect each other over a period of time.
Also we got a couple of folk act like they been here their whole lives
who only just showed up. Difficult for you to determine between us
all, I imagine. As a general rule, we're the ones who banter. And
bicker. And so forth.

(BTW, I have already
resubmitted my site to Google via their submit site form).

Therefore, I sincerely request if you could take a look at the
concerned site and see if I am (unknowingly) breaking any rules? So far
I have checked using CopyScape,

That doesn't check whether you're breaking rules yourself.

etc. And I have also checked keywords,
etc.

However, I am not sure about two things:

1. My site can be accessed via multiple addresses (even though the
actual site/blog is hosted on Typepad. Here are the different
addresses:

http://www.seelai.com (CNAME redirect via register.com to the blog
address below)
http://seelai.blogs.com
http://seelai.com (A Address redirect to an IP address at Register.com
that redirects somewhere to my site with a register.com sponsored
advertisement at the bottom of the screen).

Um...yeah but redirect how?

http://www.seelai.com/blog (the extra extension - blog - is added by
Typepad, as Typepad wants the user to name the blog, and in my case I
called my blog, well, "blog")

Well I don't think there's any crime there...

2. Some posts on my site are archived in multiple categories. For
example, the same story could be in say Category A, B, C, etc. And then
these stories are part of individual archive pages.

So you're worried about dupe penalties?

Well, that's about it. I am not sure if the above (either option)
creates a scenario where I am penalized for duplicate content, etc.
Otherwise, I have checked to the best of my knowledge that I am using
no spam techniques, no hidden text, etc. , and no tricks to boost my
site-rank.

Many thanks for your advice and or suggestion in advance. I have been
sitting tight for three weeks and things seem to get nowhere.

One more thing. If I search Google via "site:..." command, I get
nothing for "site:www.seelai.com"

However, if I search Google using "site:seelai.blogs.com" I do get at
least 9 or sometimes 23 results from 2003! All pages indexed there are
like two and a half years go! Though the latest cached page by Google
for that result is Feb 5, 2006. What gives?

Sounds like it sees one of them and not the other, eh? A suspicion
glimmers in the dawns here but we'll see what the propeller heads
say...

BB
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