News sites and SEO blogs have been awash with articles discussing the Google penalty imposed on Gocompare.com for link buying. Especially following the data released by Hitwise.
Here are 10 of the best articles I’ve found on the topic, I’m sure they are many others as well. Enjoy!
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Here are 10 of the best articles I’ve found on the topic, I’m sure they are many others as well. Enjoy!
4 Comments
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Interesting read, so who exactly owns the gocompare blogspot? Is it an insider or has someone beat them to the name?
Hi there - we’ve just punlshed an update to this story using Hitwise data - it seems like the recovery process is long and slow...http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2008/04/how_long_does_it_take_to_recover_from_a_google_blacklisting_gocompare_update.htmlRobin Goad, Research Director, Hitwise
They certainly paid the price didn’t they. Well, that said they didn’t stay penalised for long enough, just a slap on the wrist really. I wonder how coverage like this affects those sites that peddle paid blog links, does business drop or not. We did a case study on gocomare’s seo campaign recently, it was one of the most transparent we had ever seen. And not the first time they’ve suffered at the hands of Big G either.
Here we go again - yup. Once more, Gocompare have been blackhat link buying. The result:GoCompare banned from Google again!