Site removed from Google Index
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Hi mozers,
Two months ago we published http://aquacion.com
We registered it in the Google Webmaster tools and after a few day the website was in the index no problem.
But now the webmaster tools tell us the URLs were manually removed. I've look everywhere in the webmaster tools in search for more clues but haven't found anything that would help me.
I sent the acces to the client, who might have been stupid enough to remove his own site from the Google index, but now, even though I delete and add the sitemap again, the website won't show in Google SERPs.
What's weird is that Google Webmaster Tools tells us all the page are indexed.
I'm totally clueless here...
Ps. : Added screenshots from Google Webmaster Tools.
Update
Turns out it was my mistake after all. When my client developped his website a few months ago, he published it, and I removed the website from the Google Index.
When the website was finished I submited the sitemap, thinking it would void the removal request, but it don't.
How to solve
In webmaster tools, in the [Google Index => Remove URLs] page, you can reinclude pages there.
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Since the "important pages" have been removed "by request" leads me to believe somebody with access to your GWT has manually requested to remove the site from Google via the URL removal tool. You should be able to see who has access to your GWT and who removed the URLs within GWT. Just go to "Google Index" then "URL Removal" then click on the select box to the right to see the URLs that have been removed by others. You should be able to resubmit the site/URLs to Google afterwards.
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