Tobias Funke

Am I being Punked?

Kenilworth

I was about to ask the same thing...

I haven't lost any ranking, my sites have jumped in ranking. My secret? There is none.

That's the secret. Work and stop playing this game of trying to get the most for the least value added...It's what's wrong with pretty much everything in our world today

IceToEskimos

I'll just leave this here.

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jetto

I'vet been noticing a lot of people get fucked from gaming social bookmarking. COMMON THEME GUISE?

IceToEskimos

How varied were these anchors in terms of relevancy?

widgets| blue widgets | used widgets


or


widgets | read more | link ?

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bulldogzg

I've been dancing like crazy lately - from top 3 to out of "top" 1000 and back etc., but ONLY on sites that used high PR private blog networks, so guess the links are getting flagged/deindexed :/
+ seems like there is a pretty big change rolling out as we speak

ly2 from WF

I think if it's not bounced back by 2 weeks to 2 1/2 weeks, I don't think it will be back anytime soon.

I've tried to link build my way out of slaps before and it's never worked so I dunno. Maybe it will work but I've tried quality links, small amounts of links, retardedly large amounts of links like SGW, and more links never gets me out of a slap.

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waltertech14

After investigating what happened on my sites i got 1 piece of the fucking google puzzle..

I got 24 sites. 11 sites are with hostgator and the other are with the unknown hosting names. Anyways all the 9 sites that got hit are with my hostgator account. So to say I'm building the same kind of links to "All" my sites. But why did the other sites didn't got hit?

I'm not saying this is the final shit. But this is just my conclusion of what happened on my sites. 9 sites are with hostgator and before this happened I am putting up "NOT A SPAM" Scrapebox links (The one where you harvest your competitors backlinks and put it in your site) into only 1 site and all other 8 including the one with scrapebox got slapped. I mean 1 site with scrapebox but all 9 got down. All other sites are going good with the same backlinking strategy just with a different hosting package.

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marcoose

Thing is though, how do we know that these are slaps? Could just be link devaluation (I doubt this personally) or algorithm tweak/fucking overhaul.

kingofsp

I lol'd

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marcoose

One thing I will say thought is that each of my sites that have been hit were being worked on by a SB provider. I sold a site a few days prior to using these social bookmarks and it had exactly the same profile as my other sites - it hasn't been hit though.

Could the SBs be causing my problem?

suddenly_tits

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ly2 from WF

If they ain't back after 3 weeks then it's probably a permanent algo change of some sort.

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ly2 from WF

I have about 60 sites I am actively working on. 95% of them are on hostgator. The two that got hit are not on hostgator. One is on rackspace and I don't remember who hosts the other.

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ly2 from WF

Everyone is throwing around wild ideas and none of them make sense.

It's either an algo change or some sort of weird fuckup by Google and shit will come back in a couple weeks. It maybe some type of link devaluation but that doesn't add up because of my 60 sites, one of the two that got hit is clean of blog networks. The other has had ALN. And the other 58 sites have had heavy ALN, SB, blog commenting, xrumer, and a slew of other nasty shit and they are all doing fantastic.

So yea.

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Rusky

For the people loosing ranking.


Now get back to work.

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Suddenly_Ass

DocApocalypto

wow that was sudden!

DocApocalypto

Mr. Matt Cutts,

It seems like your recent algo updates have added increased scrutiny to offsite anchor diversity. If so, how do you prevent sabotaging competitors SERP rankings by shady webmasters? It would seem rather easy with the way I have ruined some of my own sites. Blast said website with a million articles with one keyword = page 6 drop.

zingo

Matt please tell me why you have fucked over so many innocent people give me a nice polite spin please. Much Thx Bro

AustinP

I doesnt even take a naked or partialy dressed woman to put my mind in the gutter.

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greyhat

Seems nobody has nailed it yet. SB links, blog networks who knows. Anybody looked at their on site shit, Bounce rate etc..??

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Noobzy

I've checked the sites where my spun content was posted before, 90% of them lost PR and a lot of them are deindexed. That means that blog network links are being de-valued...

BTW, I checked buildmyrank domains, they are still alive and with PR.

Conclusion - spun content garbage networks without quality control SUCK.

Noobzy

Anyone with update on this? Is it just "devaluation" or its devaluation+penalty?

One of my website which had stable #1 rankings for its main keywords, dropped to #10. The site has no blog network links at all, I started adding blog network links only since Dec 2011.

All my other sites continue dropping in rankigs...

Noobzy

I have highest quality content, its on insurance, 300+ pages.

Time on site 3-4+ minutes
Bounce rate under 40%
Pages/visit 3+

daseoman

From the other thread it seems that big anchor diversification can bring your site around, but i have to say that we have not yet managed to pull it off on any of our affected sites..

Armakuni

Decent content
+ Link diversity
- Insane blasts to money sites
= climbing in the SERPs

Having a fine February so far.

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Izaya

Might be your site design. Am in the same niche as you and I got fucked hard. Am thinking it was anchor text diversification/ little links to inner pages.

Kelowna

We had one of our sites get hit. We always add lots of links to inner pages, maybe even more than the main page so that is not the problem. The hit can right after doing some very minor adjustments to the index page. We found that we were ranking for a phrase that was not found on the page at all so we added it one time to the text and next day boom- huge drop. Not just the index page but inner pages that were on page one dropped as well so the whole domain seemed to have lost power.

Anyone else find the drop right after minor on page tweeks?

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1yerrot

That is SUPER weird, no I've never experienced that before, thankfully.

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pzelf

I saw the same thing happening to one of my sites. Actually it wasnt a real site yet. I had yet to start building it but i regged the domain 6 months ago placed 3-4 unique content articles and was gradually building links. Site was starting to rank on the first page in G.
So it was time to build the site further. Last week i started to make some changes in the template and added a few keywords in the content on the index page. then 2 days ago: boom my site was nowhere to be found, and still ranks below 60

Im pretty sure the drop is caused by the onsite changes. The backlinks that i build were mostly quality links from related sites ( no spinned shit or bulk)

1yerrot

That sucks, who doesn't make tweaks here and there. That's ridiculous.

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Noobzy

What are your main backlink sources? Detailed reply will be appreciated. I dont ask for all your secrets, just throw some.

Noobzy

Thanks for the reply.

My anchors ware VERY diversified... now I think that the only reason can be brand linking, which I was NOT using widely...

What does design have to do in serp drops? you mean latest above fold algo update?

On about 5th of Feb I lost #1-5 position rankings for main keywords, no longtails were hit... 2-4 days after I totally lost all rankings including longtails.

Now I only rank on my exact domain keyword... damn.

Noobzy

I was using spin content and blog networks heavily, but I also had high quality links from similar sites.

Here is what I think as of now:

1. No brand linking (I should not have over used anchor texts, even click here is natural)
2. Over using spun content (as more as you use it, it gets less unique and easily trackable)
3. Over using blog networks... I checked about 50 of my 2-3 month old backlinks, all the homepage PR is 0, they lost it... some of them are deindexed.
4. In general, over using low quality link sources.

I feel i have a penalty because all above.

Noobzy

Updates? Anyone managed to get sites back on serps? If yes, what have you done?

andrew365

I had a similar thing happen to one of my sites. On Jan 23rd I tweaked the content on the home page and few other pages and increased the keyword density for a few high value terms. 3 days later my rankings for all pages dropped like crazy.