Banned or blocked - that's one tough problem a website owner has to learn to handle.

If your site get banned or blocked by web search engines, how are you to handle such a situation?

I know a person who experienced such a dilemma. His site was not indexed by Google and Yahoo despite his efforts. To ascertain the problem, check the links, write original content, and be patient in doing your search engine optimization services.

Additionally, the owner of the site should contact the search engine involved. There are cases when you mistaken an unindexed with blocked or banned site. That's quite odd.

Check on the robots.txt file. If there's none, check the html code. There are times when you will see this code: < META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="None" >

What does that means? The html code is equal to this: < META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" >

The code orders the robots not to index the page and not to follow its links. How awful!

The next time you suppose your web site was banned or blocked by Internet search engines, check on the robots.txt file. Check the html code for the robots meta tag.