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Hope that you should never require that in your life time in the internet, i’m compelled to list a link that will suggest you how to proceed for a re-inclusion request in Google.

First the link:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/

Now the need analysis, when i was a completely new-comer in this internet, i hosted my first serious website with the support of a free sub-domain hosting company. What happened you know, i created the pages in different segments ( like header.php, mainbody.php, menu.php, footer.php so on) and used style-sheet to align them in my home page and also in other pages of my website.

As my hosting co. inserted Ad-banners at the top of my webpages, and i used position: absolute in my style-sheet declaration, so my top-most header frame got overlapped by the Ad-banner.

I had to take lot of trouble to re-organise the layout, and managed to do that by some means. But that covered top-most header.php was strill there. I could see it in my local server but not in the web-server, as you can guess it was overlapped by that Ad-banner.

It was long way back, and i tested my site ( for which i spent many sleepless night as well ) with all the available web-tools and nobody suggested a change for any reason whatsoever. It was picking up well in Google presently. With msn and Yahoo, its performance has all along been good.

A month’s ago, i noticed that all of a sudden, pages were gradually de-indexed from Google index. I really do not work much at present for this site, as presently i’m working on to use my small PHP knowledge for development of a CMS.

Sometimes it improved but at other times it was showing nothing. I really ignored that and for obvious reason, i forgot every thing about that over-lapped header.php

Only last night, when i was conducting a routine check-up, i found it has gone!

I was clueless at that moment.I posted the entire event in Google group, many people reviewed my site, but no one found out any fault. And how can they do so, if the publisher himself can’t find one.

I just could not let it go out of my mind and i also could not re-collect anything about that culprit header.php - a poison file planted by me long ago.

Couple of hours ago, while sitting alone in my working table and reading the recommendations of the link i have mentioned above, i got the point suddenly.

I have kept a copy of that header.php and in my re-inclusion request ( this time i want to make sure that everything is right, so i’ll take few days again ) i’ll show that too.

No, atleast i can’t put blame on anyone, neither Google nor my host. They have done what they were supposed to do. It is my mistake though out of ignorance , as i have told already in my previous post that i’m not an SEO expert, forget about employing SEO tricks. Though i feel, i need to learn a lot of SEOs from hence-forth to avoid such frustration.

Now i’ll do two thing, rather three.

Before submitting a re-inclusion request, i want to make it sure that everything is ok. It will definitely take some time.

I’ll post a new thread in Google group, to make people like me aware of the dangers that may be caused out of inadvertance and what to do in that case.

And for you all, who has spent few moments reading this bogus blaberring of a totally dissappointed web-publisher(????….), please do not make a mistake like what i’ve done. I had little idea regarding this world and now i’m feeling that path in this world is also not always full of pleasure.

Anyway enjoy your time friend.