Will Google ban you for not using www?

Carthik’s WordPress-related site, WordLog, has been banned from Google since its inception in 2004. And nobody can figure out why.

Google’s support department apparently always responds back saying the site is part of a spam link farm, but there is no such thing there, and according to Carthik, never has been. Yet Google continues to fail to list anything at wordlog.com in its index.

Exhausting other options, one person commented that using www. in the URI might help. Could it be that simple? I doubt it. I don’t believe using www. in the URI will help Carthik get listed in Google, as they list many domains which (foolishly) don’t use www. I think the problem lies elsewhere.

If you have any ideas which might help, visit Carthik and leave him a note.

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www. is not deprecated

I have posted a draft of the main article explaining this site, www. is not deprecated, and a tutorial on how to implement redirection in Apache.

Welcome to www.yes-www.org!

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