"SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE

How does Atlas grow? Google search is one critically important way. People find Atlas when they do a word search in google ie "Obama birth certificate", "Obama odinga", "honor killings", "Obama campaign finance fraud"  - stories that I broke or did groundbreaking work on and Atlas is usually in the top five of the search results. That's how folks find my work and generally I keep 15-20% of them as return readers. Regular Atlas readers know the media refuses to cover these stories - building readership is the only way to boost awareness in this increasingly dangerous world.

A couple of days ago I was wiped off google search pages. Yes, if you google Pamela Geller or Atlas Shrugs, I come up, that is not the issue. My work is not there, it does not come up in google's search results. It is critical to building Atlas that I be searchable.Youtube searches are still intact as are images.

Further my google search box (left sidebar) which I use almost constantly to search my site for reasearch (as do my readers) has been dramtically affaected. Input any term, any word in my search box and the same thing comes up - FORBIDDEN.

I have had to hire a separate security/consulting firm to get me back online. It is costly.  I need your help. Anything you could contribute to help offset the cost - it's a lot of hours would be greatly appreciated.

You can paypal my email address writeatlas@aol.com - go here to paypal.

Or write me offline if you wish to send a check.

UPDATE: And my google ads, which used to throw off a few bucks a day, generate nothing now. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

I juat want to be Atlas again in the googlesphere

I earned it.

THE GOOGLE OBAMA CONNECTION:

Owen Thomas, editor of the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, has penned a reasoned argument as to how Google is winning political influence in the wake of this month's presidential election. In the column he wrote, he takes a sharp-tongued look at how CEO Eric Schmidt appears to be trying to win and use influence in the new Washington.

Schmidt is savvy enough to realize that YouTube's growing prominence as a media outlet could help the company become a larger political player -- which is why the site sponsored two campaign debates. Traffic? Come on. YouTube hardly needs the help.

Thomas concludes:

In that light, isn't there something that stinks about handing the president's weekly addresses to a single commercial outlet controlled by a political ally of the president? Obama's YouTube chats amount to a large, unspoken, behind-the-scenes government kickback. Every election has something dirty about it. And there's no question Google won this contest.

UPDATE: Google CEO Could Be Obama's Tech Advisor

Rumor has it that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be occupying the newly-formed tech advisor position to the president of the United States. Barack Obama created this position just shortly before visiting the Google headquarters during his campaign, and some believe that the reason this happened was because the job was promised to Schmidt.

The head of Google endorsed the Democratic candidate throughout the elections, though the ads the company posted on various sites were mostly Republican. However, Google employees donated far more to Obama's campaign than they did for John McCain – about $487,355, and $20,600 respectively, as estimated by the Wall Street Journal.

Me thinks it was the birth certificate story .... I broke it. I have the forensics.

Remember this back in June? Atlas Shrugs: GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES

UPDATE 2:23pm: Jan did a little investigating:

How is this one for lies?

Policies and Principles: Google and censorship

It is Google's policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so. When we remove search results for these reasons, we display a notice on our search results pages. Please note: For some older removals (before March 2005), we may not show a notice at this time.

UPDATE: Mike in Texas pointed me to Google Ranking Diagnostics

Website Diagnostics panel
Helping you self-diagnose your website

Please note that this page is using NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOFOLLOW to prevent it from being indexed.
Check URL: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ -
what to look for

Uh, please note I am indexed, and I am archived.

Banned from Google
Penalized by Google

UPDATE: From reader Mairi:

After checking the online support site, I found out there is NO WAY to access information on WHY a site has been deemed "Forbidden" or HOW to get the problem corrected.

     I phoned google again. The young "no named" woman stated that NO PERSON handles the problem, and NO ONE would take my call. When I told her I had been to the support site, and there was NO WAY to get info or support there, she stated that was my ONLY option.

     The rest of the conversation was something like this:
Me: Someone had to have made a conscious decision to label the info on the Atlas site "Forbidden"
She: I don't know who that person would be, I cannot release any "name" information, and if there is no support online, than there is no support, we don't do "tech" support, and there is no one I can transfer you to who does "tech" support.
Me: Someone made the decision to label the site info "Forbidden", who do I contact to straighten this out?
She: I cannot give you any other information. I don't have any one to transfer you to. Me: So if a site has been labeled "Forbidden", then that decision has been handed down, and there is nothing else that can be done?
She: I would guess so.
Me: google STINKS! Mairi

UPDATE: Have a look at my google earnings for November:

Totals	582,541	1,503			$262.67
Date	Page impressions	Clicks	Page CTR	Page eCPM [?]	Earnings
Saturday, November 1, 2008	25,411	60	0.24%	$0.81	$20.59
Sunday, November 2, 2008	28,109	57	0.20%	$0.53	$14.79
Monday, November 3, 2008	41,367	90	0.22%	$0.67	$27.80
Tuesday, November 4, 2008	42,606	52	0.12%	$0.26	$11.25
Wednesday, November 5, 2008	47,634	47	0.10%	$0.27	$12.96
Thursday, November 6, 2008	36,408	53	0.15%	$0.32	$11.63
Friday, November 7, 2008	32,684	49	0.15%	$0.34	$11.03
Saturday, November 8, 2008	27,604	33	0.12%	$0.35	$9.65
Sunday, November 9, 2008	30,147	66	0.22%	$0.43	$13.10
Monday, November 10, 2008	36,732	103	0.28%	$0.36	$13.24
Tuesday, November 11, 2008	31,011	129	0.42%	$0.58	$17.95
Wednesday, November 12, 2008	28,618	118	0.41%	$0.68	$19.38
Thursday, November 13, 2008	34,782	139	0.40%	$0.36	$12.65
Friday, November 14, 2008	30,009	128	0.43%	$0.51	$15.41
Saturday, November 15, 2008	20,087	93	0.46%	$0.49	$9.79
Sunday, November 16, 2008	20,132	91	0.45%	$0.44	$8.91
Monday, November 17, 2008	25,438	76	0.30%	$0.48	$12.23
Tuesday, November 18, 2008	25,990	74	0.28%	$0.29	$7.54
Wednesday, November 19, 2008	17,692	45	0.25%	$0.72	$12.75
Thursday, November 20, 2008	13	0	0.00%	$0.03	$0.00
Friday, November 21, 2008	17	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Saturday, November 22, 2008	16	0	0.00%	$0.01	$0.00
Sunday, November 23, 2008	9	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Monday, November 24, 2008	9	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Tuesday, November 25, 2008	14	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Wednesday, November 26, 2008	2	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Totals	582,541	1,503			$262.67
Averages	22,405	57	0.26%	$0.45	$10.10

UPDATE: Reader TGH posted this -- until it's censored?

UPDATE: Boycott Google

Comments

[kobi]

pamela:
we wish you the best on this.
i would hope that some of the websites which are earnestly pursuing justice re the birth cert. issue, for example, would support you and put up a message on their title pages.

and, hopefully, there is a conservative of integrity in the us congress who can back you up re free speech/free press issues.

shoot, contact sarah palin, why not?

[Ron Coleman]

Hey, hey, hey.... what the H-E-double-hockey-sticks is THIS about, Pamela?

[Pamela Geller]

Damned if I know .... freedom of speech? It came out of nowhere, no warning, no notice, no nothing.

[flyingsongster]

Pamela have you removed the Google sidebar and reinstalled it? Also, have you
thought in the meantime about putting your name(Atlas Shrugs) in each header, so that the search engine will find it? Google may have had an update and dropped a lot of info. There is a change in their search engine. It used to be that it kept the memory of my prior searches. Try, first to reinstall the sidebar.

[horselady]

I'm not surprised. I used to have a photo account at Photobucket and I had no problems there until Google either bought it outright or bought into it. None of my photos violated their TOS but there were several photos of Islam that were less than flattering. Suddenly one day, I could not get into my account and was told my account had been banned for violating the TOS. I could never get an answer about which photos were in violation. Even worse, I could not get in to retrieve my photos, which numbered over 2,000. They told me to get a court order and were very nasty about it.

I didn't want to spend several thousand dollars on a lawyer. I was able to find about 75% of the photos but it was very time-consuming.

Now I keep my photos at FOTKI and have had no problems. But I do keep a backup file of most of the photos just in case.

I don't know why they gave you a forbidden listing but I assume the same thing will happen to my website eventually, too: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com

[Randall]

Pamela:

Please have the user change the client=pub-2934720(numbers) in their URL to simply client=pub and that will free up the searcher.

I sent stats on link popularity, Atlas Shrugs links have been flushed by both Google and Microsoft Live

[Randall]

I am disgusted that certain people feel that they are in control of what the citizens shall or shall not know. This is censorship in a subtle manner and is against the principles of our nation's founding fathers who knew that the news media was the only way to keep a check on government abuses and excesses.

I am angry that no warning was given you, but you left to figure out on your own what happened. I thought antisemitism was waning, but this is ample proof that it's now growing as we approach a new administration.

I did notify World Net Daily about this, but perhaps other news agencies need to know too. If Google can do it to you, they can do this to anyone.

Again, I am very sorry that this happened, and will pray for even more success for Atlas Shrugs then you've had.

[Pamela Geller]

flyingsonster, I reinstalled the sidebar as you suggested - created new code - and still FORBIDDEN. No change. I need to employ IT specialists and I have ......... it will take some time

[Citizen_Cane]

“Yes, if you google Pamela Geller or Atlas Shrugs, I come up, that is not the issue. My work is not there, it does not come up in google's search results.”

What are you talking? Atlas Shrugs is the first hit if I google after “Pamela Geller”? Paranoia much?

[LeftCoastConservative]

Citizen Cane - get a clue. You sound as though you are not understanding what Pamela is talking about at all, and maybe that is because your understanding of english is not too good.

Pamela clearly stated that doing a search based on the topics that she has uncovered or has done a great deal of research on and has written articles on her web site are excluded from the google search.

[sheik yer'mami]

Censorship in another way. Stealth Jihad.

The 'Illustrated PIG to Islam" was taken off the web entirely, run by a very brave fellow who (still) lives in a Muslim country. Sheik yer'mami was taken off a few months ago because a Muzz complained over 'nudity'- if you can call a picture with a hijabbed broad with a suicide belt 'nudity' you're moving the goalposts. For me she was (and still is) well dressed. We're porn again!

Money talks. The Arabs got it all, perverting everything we hold dear. No wonder in this world full of suckers and bootlickers.

[SlimGuy]

Google and yahoo both have been playing games since the election.

I have customized up portal pages at myYahoo and Igoogle and have multiple tabs set up there and any rss feeds from conservative sites are not refreshing but any other content works fine on the other tabs.

Yesterday I couldn't get to any of the military blogs I follow.

I have a backup method in place but it really is a pain.

All those years working with China how to deal with 'objectionable' content is paying off for them I guess.

[Zero]

Socialists. Google is a politburo.

FountainheadZero
"Existentialism on election night"

[Timur]

Who owns controlling stock in Google, George Soros or the Saudis?

[George Mc.]

Randall, you can remove the numbers after client=pub in the search and get to google results, but that won't help. Google has pushed Atlas Shrugs way, way, way down the priority list on any search results. The first time you search, Google omits some results, so none of Pamela's work shows on any of the pages of search results. If you repeat the search to include all results, the first time you will come to any result with AtlasShrugs is about page 44. How many people are going to scroll through that many pages?

[SlimGuy]

The only way on google right now to get results of quality is to add the qualifier to the search string of site:atlasshrugs.typepad.com so that it limits the search just to this blog.

You get about 9000 hits by doing that , but how many people even know this capability exists?

[SlimGuy]

Correct that site modifier by putting the 2000 in where it needs to be..my bad

site:atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

[Brutus]

What is the deal with Google? So much for "don't be evil."

I kicked in a few bucks to the tip jar. Keep up the good work on this excellent blog.

[MooPig]

Please try contacting this person Jayne d'Arcy... via blog:
http://pribek.net/2008/10/07/a-message-from-jayne-regarding-the-slurp-bot-affair/

and/or --

http://pribek.net/2008/07/01/more-google-nonsense/

or maybe here...

http://pribek.net/2007/07/12/does-google-knowingly-commit-fraud/

[flyingsongster]

OK Pamela, it was just an easy try.

I noted in putting a query into google, "Obama, Odinga" that the first page showed
2 Wordpress blogs...During the Hillary Clinton campaign lots of writers, as you know were blocked by Google.
They moved to Wordpress, and used the free service.

Even when I had a very small blog, a query of chosen words, put my teeny little blog at the top. Pamela..you can leave the Google world, by entering the Wordpress blog world..Call Wordpress...

[flyingsongster]

Ok Pamela, I tried several queries: Techdude birth certificate, brought up
Citizen wells, wordpress blog first...

In all of my google queries, I have seen no Typepad...dot coms..
but lots of wordpress blogs.

[David Perkins]

Anytime the distribution of information is in the hands of a few, it means the ease and availability of it is subject to the whims of that few. And the opposite, the restriction and concealment of information, is JUST as easy, and that is the mark of the totalitarian.

Google has already knelt at the communist altar of China, and it would never shock me to find them manipulating advantage to take it from Jews and give it to ARabs, Muslims and secular leftists.

Google is soon to go that route. They're already on the way.

[TINBH]

the leftists' "c.i.a." - google

[Lede Agenda]

And so begins the censorship. All hail the Obama-Messiah! No Dissent Tolerated! Hope and Change! Hope and Change!

/sigh

[Timur]

Scarey, since Google would also have the ISP's of anyone who tried to find certain kinds of information and could, in theory at least, disclose those addresses to whomever it wished. And if their CEO is one of Obama's right hand men...
"1984" was 24 years ago... (Orwellian reference)

[2T3MzooK]

I googled "obama birth-certificate forgery" and got the first result as follows:

Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Birth Certificate ForgeryHere is the evidence: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN (7/20/08). This provides "reasonable suspicion". ...
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/obamas_birth_certifcate_forgery/ - Similar pages -

[2T3MzooK]

PS: I did not put the search in quotes of course, just the hyphen between two words as you see, to make it a phrase.

[joe siccspack]

Your post about brownshirts was right on the money. I want to support you in any way I can, but I had to take down all of my blogposts because over at natural born citizen, google is investigation terms of use violatiolns againstg Leo Donofrio, who's lawsuit is at the supreme court, and NO one is saying this. It is unbelievable, and makes me wonder if there is even such lawsuits in action right now. It isnt here at your blog, or any other of the leading conservative blogs. It's like we are what KOS calls "tin foil hatters". Am I losing my mind? Google is CENSORING a man for filing a lawsuit!!!! Go look!
http://thenaturalborncitizen.blogspot.com/
there is nothing in the way of criticism, or accusation at that blog, only an assertion that since mR Obama was born as a dual citizen, he is indeed not natural born, and by the way, there is a growing concern that Berg's birth certificate thing was concocted by Obama to throw the real issue off the tracks- the fact OBAMA'S FATHER WAS KENYAN, WHICH MEANS BRITISH, AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS MADE IT CLEAR, 'only natural born citizen's need apply, no one else, especially BRITISH.". Come on Pam, shout this from the rooftops!!!!!! There are multiplt lawsuits that could cause the election to be stopped in it's tracks! Obama isnt even the president elect yet, not untill he gets the elections from the electoral college. He is no longer a US senator. If they stop him now, he is caught between worlds! Stop him!!! Shout this! tell the people that it's on radio stations across the nation, or did they get to you too? http://thenaturalborncitizen.blogspot.com/

[joe siccspack]

After posting the previous comment about Leo Donofrio being investigated by Google for terms of use violations, *POOf* they took down the ugly WARNING- POSSIBLE TERMS OF USE VIOLATIONS page and all is well. Guess us tinfoil hatters can get back to the busy business of trying to stop this election. Have a good day. (btw, I know you dont know me, but I love your blog. I am genuinely sorry about the brownshirts doing this to you, I am furious, but right now this other issue is time sensitive. J)

[2T3MzooK]

Blogspot seems to have a better system for dealing with "complaints"--rather than blocking the blog they merely put a warning page up, apparently until they do an investigation. So Donofiro must have passed the investigation.

[yonason]

I did the searches "Pamella Geller" and then "Atlas Shrugs" and both came up, and they were first.

Could they just be forbiding you access to your own material by blocking your IP address? or some other selective targeting of you personally?

[Pamela Geller]

IT'S MY WORK NOT MY NAME!
Atlas has no rank. I was ranked tops in my categories
This has definitely happened. This is not "coding". Another reader suggested I redo the search box code and I did with the same result so I took it down
I was getting 10,000- 15,000 referrals from google searches a day. Now NOTHING from word search.
Word search of google is the problem. My work has been scrubbed. The search box on Atlas is an unpleasant side effect of the scrubbing. As far as altering the search to include my URL - how are folks who never heard of me supposed to know how to do that.
That is not the problem. I appreciate your input.
Also I was earning $12 to $20 a day from google ads - now ZERO for 5 days in a row. The sandboxing has been confirmed by cyper IT specialists. I have hired a consulting firl to remove the ban

[David Perkins]

There's no doubt about what they did.

The earnings tell the whole story. None of the searches that people have done in the past week or so have found an Atlas story, so her content is no longer listed with Google, only her name.

FOr people searching by content, i.e. "Obama's Birth Certificate", Pam's site will no longer appear.

This is sabotage, skullduggery and an early sign of the potential totalitarian "information control" to be exercised by the sycophants at Google, proven eager to endear themselves to dictators and leftists.

Keep fighting, Pam, and any of you commenters who haven't donated to this effort, COUGH IT UP. :-) Consultants don't work for photo ops with beautiful women, you know...

although, Pam, you might try incentives like this to lower their hourly rate.. :-)) just a thought.

[LeftCoastConservative]

This is EXTREMELY concerning! If it can be done to Pamela/Atlas it can be done to anybody and nobody is taking responsibility for this.

I agree that the big issue right now is the birth certificate issue, but if all news and updates about the issue are scrubbed from being searchable how are we to keep up,get behind and support those who are on the front lines fighting the battle, and any other future battles?

While I realize that google is probably the most popular search engine out there right now, there are others. I've decided to quit using google.

Ask dot com is owned by CBS if my memory serves me correctly. We might be seeing the amalgamation of search engines which will cause them all to be controlled by the leftists.

[George Mc.]

Also, consider kicking in for legal fees. This has obviously been a conscious decision taken by someone at Google and it has cost Pamela revenue and has damaged her good name and reputation. Certainly, there is a case to be made here for monetary damages as well as a "cease and desist" order. If, during depositions with Google employees and managers, it can be shown that Google has done this to other websites, perhaps there is a case for a class action lawsuit and a lawyer would take this on a contingency basis. Go after them!

[flyingsongster]

Pamela, have you contacted TypePad? It seems that they are doing some updates as well..
WHen you have two companies doing updates, at nearly the same time, there can be
Problems. As I have noted already, there don't appear to be any Typepad sites in any of the random searches I have performed.

[Pamela Geller]

The IT consulting firm confirms that I have been banned by Google
Thanks flyingsongster - it's not typepad
and as you inquired previously, it's not search code - I changed it and results were the same

[Richard]

Contacting TypePad is useless. I don't think they could find the sharp end of a stick.

[sDee]

could it be TypePad?

http://foolswisdom.com/typepad-seo-blows/

http://www.sourban.net/Is-TypePad-Bad-For-SEO

[kobi]

i have faith that truth will prevail.

don't ever give up pamela!!!

[pythagoras]

I smell Islam (and Marxists-since they're joined at the hip, ususally) in Ms. Geller's blacklisting.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of Google's corporate shares of stocks are held by orthodox Arab-Muslims currently. Possibly more than any of us would care to believe. As I have posted here, control of the US media and thus censorship in America is a primary objective in the present day jihadist movement. That may partially explain Atlas' being scrubbed from the GOOGLE search engine.

The liberal movement sold out to 'radical' Islam long ago (even thought the libs were unaware both of what Islam actually stood for and what it would eventually do to them).

So one might reasonably conclude that Atlas' blacklist by Google came out of "left" field (if you know what I mean).

[LeftCoastConservative]

I found this at conservapedia.com ---

"The rationale behind political censorship is that the political party in power can protect itself from revolution if the public is kept uninformed."

I think that it is interesting that the reason given was directly tied to the "political party in power" and not tied to dictatorships or other forms of imposed government.

Here I thought that those who have fought for pornography were taking free speech/no censorship to the extreme while at the same time casting in concrete those who would not be going to that same extreme. I'm now sure that the liberals would prefer that the internet would be used for porn rather than intelligent challenges to their goals and ideals.

[Always On Watch]

As I scrolled down the stats, I gasped.

This development is astounding.

Nevertheless, I've been saying since January that 2008 is The Year of Silencing Voices. A Google ban can accomplish that, for all intents and purpose.

[Steve]

I'm not having problems locating Atlas Shrugs content through Google. Grabbed random text authored here and performed several web searches. Came right up. So, looks like you're still out there.

With regard to the embedded search issue, looks like it's bound to Google's AdSense. Thing is, I don't see any Google ads on this site. But I do see references to blogads.com. Normally, Google ads are indicated as such. Point is, if you're no longer using Google ads, that might explain the embedded search problem. Evidently, they're often bound.

Found the following that might address the embedded search problem when AdSense is active. No idea whether it will work but sounds like it could re-enable the embedded search while the advertising issue is worked out.
1) Go to http://www.google.com/cse and click on manage your existing search engines.
2) Click on Control Panel next to the search engine’s name.
3) Click on the Make Money Tab and disassociate the AdSense account

Seems the key is to disable AdSense for this site. Unless, of course, this site is enabled to receive Google ads and they're no longer sending them because of your politics. Seems unlikely but never know. Strange times are indeed upon us.

p.s. Not sure how fishy this particular situation is but the thing with Donofrio's site sure smells funny.

[S. Aujero]

Can anyone tell me why I can type in atlas shrugs into my google toolbar and atlasshrugs.typepad.com comes up? I don't seem to have a problem finding the site this way. I'm certainly not doubting anything that Pamela says. Would it be because there are cookies stored on my computer? I was in the process of deleting anything Google on my computer, and thought to give it a try to see if I could do a search. It still stinks, and Google is still going in the trash can. I like DogPile search better anyway....

[jj]

pamela:

freedom of the press. for him who has the keys to the press room.

freedom of speech. for him who has control of the press. the media outlet. the keys to the library.

the relation between google osama bin obama is indeed ominous.

cash for legal fees will be forthcoming, my friend.

john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

[jj]

correction:

"the relationship between google and osama bin obama is indeed ominous."

p.s. i might well have said, the relationship between soros and google and osama bin obama is indeed ominous.

[Pamela Geller]

Steve, Not sure what planet you are operating your system on but the site has at least 4 google ads running.
Further, my articles are not showing up in the searches and my sitemeter does not reflect any google word search referrals (where I was getting 10,000 - 15,000 a day).

As I explained repeatedly, Atlas Shrugs and Pamela Geller if googled will come up, but my work doesn't. Look at the google earnings chart (above).

Yes, you can find the site. It is word searches that I was scrubbed from. Word searches is how new readers find me. Word searches is how folks looking for news the media won't cover find that news (Danish cartoons, global jihad, Obama Odinga, Obama birth certificate forgery, etc). If the work is scrubbed, folks can't find it.

This is a freedom of speech issue and the blogs are the last vestige of free speech.

[The Liberty Sphere]

Pamela,

So sorry to hear of your woes with Google. But I'm glad to see you have hired some specialists to get this corrected.

In the meantime, I will post a story about this on The Liberty Sphere tomorrow so that my readers will be informed. I hope that this helps in some small way.

Regards,
D. Martyn Lloyd-Morgan

[Winged Hussar 1683]

Pamela,

The problem could conceivably be that atlasshrugs.com redirects to atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com. If I do a Google search for "Obama" at site:atlasshrugs.com, it comes up empty, but if I do the same search with site:atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com, I get more than 8000 links. This suggests that Google did not scrub the search results, but that it won't post them for a site that redirects to another.