Live search recently detailing how you can check your website if it is being penalized by their search engine or not.

1. Register with Live Search Webmaster. Follow all necessary steps to validate you site.

2. After validated,  go to ‘Summary‘ tab. Under ‘Blocked‘ column, (see the sample screen shot as reference) check if there are pages with ‘Yes’. If there is no ‘Yes’ mark, you’re safe now. Otherwise please proceed to the next steps.

3. Before proceed to other step, please identify what block your pages.

• Check if it is related to malware. In Webmaster Center, go to both the ‘Crawl Issues‘ tab menu (review the ‘Malware infected‘ issue type) and the ‘Outbound Links’ tab menu (select the ‘Show only outbound links to malware’ option) for possible malware issues. Please clean them up immediately upon detected
• If malware’s not the issue, please review carefully the Live Search Webmaster Center Guidelines. Pay special attention to the bullet items listed in the section titled, ‘Techniques that might prevent your website from appearing in Live Search results’. Posted there are the basic rules that can cause your site to be penalized. Some time it is your SEO technique or SEO consultant that you hire apply an optimization techniques, that prohibited by Live Search.

4. Once you clean up all the mess, go to the Live Search Support page and request re-inclusion into the Live Search index. Wait for a while before checking back the Live Search Webmaster.