Google de-indexing BANS web sites
For those of you who aren’t familiar with BANS it is a great php script that makes it very easy to Build A Niche Store (BANS) and works with the eBay Affiliate program. You can find out more about BANS at http://www.buildanichestore.com/.
Unfortunately it appears that Google is currently targeting these stores and removing them from their index. This is because in the growing popularity of the BANS system there has been a huge influx of BANS stores, many of which are regarded as “Thin Affiliate Sites” or “SPAM Sites”.
A close friend of mine has heard from a Google engineer that they have hard coded the removal of BANS stores from the index and are asking BANS store owners to request re-inclusion via Googles Web Master Tools. This enables Google to remove all “Thin Affiliate” web sites and only consider re-inclusion for genuine BANS store owners who have put the extra effort in to creating an eBay Affiliate store with something else to offer.
In my opinion it is an unfair way for Google to deal with these stores and feel that legitimate BANS users should not be punished for the SPAMMERS creating thin affiliate stores, however, I can also understand that for Google to vet every BANS store fully would be a tall order even for Google.
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