question What reliable tools to check banned domains?

DzAH said:

I think the evidences are clear
1. my domain shows up in google search
2. it doesn't show up as banned by other services

Yet, Im not making claim of NW accuracy.. its just, how/why should I trust they are right? and if you are so sure NW is that accurate, how did you yourself confirm it to be accurate?

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I have found only maybe a couple of errors in ten of thousands of searches. But I don't check every search. I'm happy with that kind of accuracy. This has been more accurate, and easier to use, than any other Google checker, IMHO.

I also found that NW claims two of my other domains are not clean, nor banned, but classified as 'adult'. How to confirm, and what are the impacts?

btw.. now the NW's faillist search doesn't work at all?

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I think I've answered most of these questions in my previous post. Other than that. I repeat you should ask Google, or the websites themselves, if you have found any discrepancies. Nobody else has any inside track as to the working of Google's search results.

I would take @offthehandle's advice for removing both adult and banned stigma from domains in Google's search results. Google claim this works. But in reality you have to remove every previous backlink from the domain, and this can be an impossible task when backlinks can no longer be reached. I have never, ever been successful in taking a banned domain off Google's banned list. Google's Matt Cutts claims it's not impossible. But I claim it's probably close to impossible.

Sometimes NW does not work because of the additional volumes created with thread like this. Leading to hosting issues like Bandwith Exceeded or other hosting issues. This is a free service. You have to put up with interruptions like this now and again. Somebody has to pay for the hosting.

Removing backlinks to compile in a list to submit to goo gle for being disavowed is a pain. It also is tedious as you should check them all out manually. I had to do it on one site as I had a jealous competitor or two ruin my organic ranking (suspected only) spam me with unwanted crappy backlinks. It took over a month after submitting the disavow tool but my site rose back from being slammed. It still never came back to the top, but I had changed some things to mess up my SEO so I knew it. Backlinks are precious of course for SEO, so you need to be careful and take your time. Do not disavow all of them, some might be useful and are valid. It's time consuming but in my experience on this one site it worked. I have another contact who is well known for his SEO and he is the one that told me to do it, and he is successful with ranking many sites, glad I took his advice. The other way to handle this is to advise the customer and discount the price of the domain and they take the mission on. It also takes away finger pointing if you miss a couple in your disavow submission.

@offthehandle - You live in rarified air I've never once heard of a banned domain being resurrected like this. Even the parking companies, who might see a disproportionate number of these cases, will also tell you they've never ever seen a banned domain resurrected, and in their opinion, it's impossible. At least that's what one of the major parking companies told me.

You can check in a bulk via Bodis and ParkingCrew internal tools...
But only Ad-ban.

Regarding indexing/SERP - I don't know any tools...

This was only a couple months ago. I have to clarify a mistake on this as I have several websites. Sorry and I don't mean to confuse this. That business site had negative backlinks I disavowed but... it was not delisted or deindexed or banned, my confusion drifting off since I have too many sites right now. This business site fell way down in rankings. My other site was faillisted but I added it to the same G account and requested G index, never did the disavow or even examine links. But both are indexed. So communication with G in both instances worked for me.

So Maybe in the historical past, it has not worked and G has changed the algo to work better. I have no idea, but my business site is has had a good history since 05'. I once paid for blogging backlinks in 08' on the site which that a different SEO guy made a mistake. During that time I never ranked, but then hit first page in January this year then got slammed with negative SEO which made me fall to page 26 or something. I have to check where I am today.

Now the other site that is still faillisted as a dropped domain I bought as mentioned before, and was reindexed by requesting that it become part of my g account. The name was dropped, and I created a new website for it and never checked its history at all.

offthehandle said:

This was only a couple months ago. Maybe in the historical past, it has not worked and G has changed the algo to work better. I have no idea, but my site is and has had a good history since 05'. I once paid for blogging backlinks in 08' on the site which that earlier SEO guy made a mistake. During that time I never ranked, but then hit first page in January this year then got slammed with negative SEO which made me fall to page 26 or something. I have to check where I am today.

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So this wasn't an Ad ban?

No, these are not Adsense sites, but they were penalized in serps. One has Amazon affilate ads on it. My point of all this was to encourage OP to disavow, then try to get same good results I had since was surprised and that G responded, and that I was reindexed. So unless I put Adsense on the site, I guess I will not have a true answer to what you are referring to I guess.
I have no experience with adsense on parking pages.

https://ctrlq.org/sandbox/
Put your site in there, if it shows ads it is clear for google ads.

Thanks @stub this NameWest tool helps a lot and it's easy to use as with bulk check option.

It seems the namewest tool namewest.com/fail is inaccurate now due to voodoo api. It shows all domains as clean.

Is there any alternative?

Name Trader said:

Fail.NameWest.com is what you need. It will be as accurate as the information provided by Google is accurate.

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