Google can follow dynamic links and will pick up the redirect. Not sure if yahoo or msn can though.

I think google means that they dont store sesion ID's in the index but I dont think it will stop it spidering the site.

Your site has been excluded from the index so the only way right now is a manual inclusion. This means that a human will look at your site and deem if its worthy to come back in so doing anything to trick the engine at this point in time is inadvisable.

I'm not trying to trick the engine. The only thing that I can think of doing is to just give Google a miss.

If I edited all of my listings and pulled out of the ones that have 0 PR then I still have no guarantee that I will get back into the index. So I would probably just do all of the work for nothing and loose visitors at the same time as pulling 0 PR sites out will mean that I will be pulling some good paying sites out of my site.

Some of these sites I am earning money from for just listing them.

When my other site got pulled out of Google and I revamped the whole site and spent about 20 hours a day doing it for about 2 - 3 days just so that I could get it back in Google quickly.

They didn't even bother emailing me back or listing it back in Google again.

That was a waste of my time.

I guess I will have to just keep my sites going with the help of Google. My two sites have been out of Google for about 6 or more months now and I have been handling things fine so getting back into Google was really a bonus.

OK!

Please help!

I have just checked all of my sites and I have used meta refresh on the 404 error pages. I have set this meta refresh to 0 where it redirects straight back to my homepage.

I was just wondering could this be the problem that has made me banned as Googles software may think that it is not a 404 page and think that I may be using a doorway page or something.

If this is the case, then would there be away that I could redirect a 404 page straight back to the homepage that will not break google's rules.

After I had checked all my sites I noticed that 3 of the sites are using this meta refresh. One of the sites is still in google and the other two have been banned.

So anybody that knows about this, could you please help me out.

Thanks!

This could be the solution!

A 0 second meta refresh can cause the infamous Google "hijack" under the right circumstances and if this is returning a 404 and the hijack effect, it's goodbye listings.

You would need some server side code to handle the 404 AND safely redirect and careful coding to ensure it works correctly in all cases (Don't try this at home kids )

I have total control over my server, but even though I have it, I think I will go for the safe rought and just have no redirect.

I was wondering how many times can you email google asking for your site to be included. This is because I have done it about 5 times in the last 6 months and they may probably just ignore my emails now.

I will now modify the 404 error page plus I will be stopping accepting link exchanges as I don't think they are working all that well anyway. I will still be keeping my link exchange directory, but I will delete the listings that have a 0 PR.

I will keep all of the affiliate programs listed though.

Do you think this is the best action to take and then email google asking for a re-inclusion.

Thanks!

I had one of my sites with PR 3 banned from Google for cloaking. But after redesigning the site I requested for inclusion and it was included in the Google index within 6 weeks. But of course all backlinks were reduced to zero and page rank was also zero. So I had to start from scratch once again.