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SEO - How to programmatically check if a website has been Banned by Google

if your website links to another site that has been blacklisted by Google this is bad for your ranking
Sites like onlinealley helps you to know if there're problems with a website you are linking to.
Does any Google API Exist .. or how are websites like this checking if a url is banned?
Are they checking the 'PageRank value' or something else?
Thanks

Solution

  • I like the nofollow suggestion. Its what SO does. Take a look at the page source.

    You could also maybe do a 'site:PLACE_URL_HERE' lookup on Google to see if it actually returns any pages.

    Also have you looked at the Google Safe Browsing API? Looks like that might be what your after.