Published: May 21, 2008 - 05:38 pm
Story Found By: annie7 1854 Days ago
Category: SEO
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3 Comments
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Arent these filters and not penalties?
Are you referring to the "sand box"? If so, yes there are definitely penalties when you misuse the priviledge to use search engine optimization. One thing I can tell you and Ive read about it more than once and thats copying another web sites content. I wouldnt recommend it. Im sure some here will agree with me. -L
Cant say for sure that I am in the -950 penalty, but thats close to describing recent Google rankings loss on my site. Heres a quick rundown. Tell me what you think:Started www.monkeybriefs.com in 2005. Rankings coming along in all the SERPS since then. (including google). Late 2007, site was hit with the iFrame hack. I cleaned all my index.php and index.html pages and contacted stopbadware.org. They notified google and the This Site May Harm Your Computer was removed. Over the next couple of months, rankings started diminishing. At this point today, I rank in Google for only terms with miniscule results. People are typing my URL and sitename. And that makes up for 95% of my Google traffic. This being the case, I am still getting 2000+ uniques (organic only). Just to give you an example: (suspecting some penalty causing this)KW: free video clips Yahoo: #5 (main page) MSN: #5 (main page) Google: #643 (video.php page - I cant find my main page) I am doing no black hat seo, no paid links, etc. My structure is right in line with all my competition. You can check sites like dorks.com, holylemon.com, etc.So what gives? My pages appear to be indexed. But nothing showing up in the rankings. If anybody has a suggestion or three I would appreciate it.Bryan R.