In the last few days, it has come to our notice that the host site along with all subdomains (blogs) have been de-indexed from Google’s search index.

I’ve no idea why this has happened and speculation in the forum is rife. Its possible someone from outside the community is aggrieved that they cannot create a blog with registrations limited to community members only and has maliciously reported the site as spam.

Its not very nice but this kind of thing does happen from time to time. I’ve heard of other blogs and WP mu hosts having similar problems, especially where they are a closed community and someone trying to get in that can’t goes and gets all shirty and reports the site to Google simply out of spite. This is a nasty, underhand thing to do, but being realistic, it happens.

In an attempt to remedy the situation, I have contacted Google and requested a re-inclusion. Hopefully a real person will come and check the site and all your blogs out and verify that we are indeed all using this package for perfectly legitimate purposes and we’ll get back into the index.

I know this is not good news for those of you using blogs as affiliate stores with Christmas coming up as it will affect sales considerably. All I can hope is that what goes around comes around and the nasty piece of work that reported us (if that is the case) get’s what’s coming to them in kind.

So hold tight and hopefully those nice people at Google will see us for what we are and let us back in!

Terry