What should I do if my blog violates Google Webmaster policies
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We recently found out that Google have penalized our main site http://www.ineedcarrepair.com for “Unnatural inbound links”. Unfortunately, we hired the wrong company to do our web advertising, and it looks like they did a lot of blackhat stuff that wasn’t even close to being inline with what’s acceptable…
Anyway, we’re going through the process of cleaning all this up, and I found that they created this wordpress page for us: http://autorepairshopaustin.wordpress.com/ It’s a pretty weak page; no unique content, relatively spammy article re-posts, and it has site-wide links to our main site along with address blocks for our two locations on every page…
What I’m thinking I should do is just delete this site altogether, but I’m wonder if anyone else has another suggestion. One thing I’ll say is that we definitely don’t need another blog, so I wouldn’t be interested in creating new content for this page. I’m just wondering if first, I should maybe get it verified with webmaster tools and then submit request to remove pages from their index, or something like that.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for your help.
Lenny
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Hi Lenny,
I’m sorry to hear about your bad experience with that web advertising company. :(
If you no longer want the site at autorepairshopaustin.wordpress.com, you can either change the privacy settings to make the site private or you can delete it altogether. Either way, once the site isn’t public anymore, Google will eventually remove it from its search index without you having to manually request the site’s removal.
We have more details about managing a site’s privacy settings here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
And more information and a guide for deleting a site here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)
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Clearing the content an leaving the site up and empty might help search engines a bit over deleting the site
you don’t have much content – try clearing the body of the Posts but leave the URL intact (i.e. don’t delete the Post completely) then when search engines crawl your site they will update the Posts with blank content – or put a note “this content has been deleted” – that should cause the old content to be “updated” – also remove all the links to your real site
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