Maybe just a glitch or possibly intentional due to demand they can’t cope with but today I noticed you can’t file a reinclusion request to Google. If you look at Google’s webmaster support page it says”

If your site has violated our webmaster guidelines, and you’ve made changes to it so that it meets our guidelines, you can request reinclusion and we’ll evaluate your site.To request reinclusion, log in to Google Sitemaps, choose the “Request reinclusion” link, and follow the steps outlined there.”

Now here is where the problem is. I can’t find a “request reinclusion” link. Does that mean that I don’t need to or is it something that has been missed. It used to be there as I have seen it in the past but this morning when I looked it’s gone.

It’s also interesting to see that you now need to have a Google webmasters account in order to submit a reinclusion request. Is this another way of pushing webmasters to use sitemaps?

Of course you don’t need to submit sitemaps when you do have a Google Sitemaps account and there are other benefits too like their robots.txt checker, reporting of errors on your site, choosing your preferred domain with or without www, etc so it is still worthwhile.

Its just a shame you can’t submit a reinclusion request to Google at the moment.

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