yep, probably due to the blog commenting package. We'll see if it bounces back in a week or two.
Fact or Myth: Xrumer Links Pointed to your site - Case Study
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I second/third that. Thanks for the more details and Spyro is the fucking SHIT. Play it all the time on my old school PSX emu.
I have you on the 4th page today for Business Card Printing, actually @ #43. It seems to have danced back nicely from page 11.
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Found on Page #5, Position #7 in Google / United States, Checked my SEOmoz Rank Tracker.
Found on Page #5, Position #7 in Google / United States, Checked my SEOmoz Rank Tracker.
guys, just read this article:
TheSpec - The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
according to the article, google has figured out how to combat manipulation of their search algorithm. Widely used by many seo "consultants". Google will drop a sites ranking. eg jc penny was/is doing this and google dropped their ranking....who knows if the people who wrote this know wtf they're talking about, but just thought i'd share.
excerpts:
from the article:
At 7 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, J. C. Penney was still the No. 1 result for “Samsonite carry on luggage.”
Two hours later, it was at No. 71.
At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Penney was No. 1 in searches for “living room furniture.”
By 9 p.m., it had sunk to No. 68.
TheSpec - The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
according to the article, google has figured out how to combat manipulation of their search algorithm. Widely used by many seo "consultants". Google will drop a sites ranking. eg jc penny was/is doing this and google dropped their ranking....who knows if the people who wrote this know wtf they're talking about, but just thought i'd share.
excerpts:
from the article:
At 7 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, J. C. Penney was still the No. 1 result for “Samsonite carry on luggage.”
Two hours later, it was at No. 71.
At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Penney was No. 1 in searches for “living room furniture.”
By 9 p.m., it had sunk to No. 68.
The bottom line is Google can't combat manipulation if it's done right. If you have the budget, you can rank for anything.
Great thread bro,
I did a similar experiment about a month ago;
I would buy 4 new domains all with the keyword in them, put up a 500 word article, then order 100 social bookmarks to each one, and bompas 100k xrumer blast with ping spread to all 4.
The result,
each one would get up to the top 5 spots for that keyword, make me money - then 2 weeks later receive a -50 penalty.
I did this for a while until I ranked my more solid sites for that keyword, but I've got about 10 sites all with -50 penalties. (if anyone knows anything about this penalty and what I can do with these sites now please share)
Every single time I did it, I received a -50 penalty after 2 weeks. I have a feeling though that this was caused by manual reviews of the site. I have done this for other keywords (which weren't heavily bid on with adwords) and they seem to stick.
Cheers
Naveed
I did a similar experiment about a month ago;
I would buy 4 new domains all with the keyword in them, put up a 500 word article, then order 100 social bookmarks to each one, and bompas 100k xrumer blast with ping spread to all 4.
The result,
each one would get up to the top 5 spots for that keyword, make me money - then 2 weeks later receive a -50 penalty.
I did this for a while until I ranked my more solid sites for that keyword, but I've got about 10 sites all with -50 penalties. (if anyone knows anything about this penalty and what I can do with these sites now please share)
Every single time I did it, I received a -50 penalty after 2 weeks. I have a feeling though that this was caused by manual reviews of the site. I have done this for other keywords (which weren't heavily bid on with adwords) and they seem to stick.
Cheers
Naveed
Truth. They got busted because they were doing it in a way that screamed "I'm manipulating the SERPS!"
I'd have to disagree with this, their last Algo change seemed to affect the whole article distribution industry and not any site specifically. It doesn't take a supercomputer or genius to figure out how to target a whole section of the Internet with a -15 to -30 penalty.
JC Penney was outed by the NY Times so Google had to react.
Personally I am not too worried since all my Keywords are relevant to my website and the products that I sell. But I am also not going to go out and do anything too stupid either like JCP.
Dude, this shit is epic. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to fire 3 million links in one week LOL.
Also, did you only use 1 anchor text? haha
I see you at #44, but it looks like your hosting account got suspended. Fix that before the crappy "suspended" page gets indexed....that will ruin the case study.
What I can't understand.... why would you be punished for links??? Google wants the links to be natural... But natural is created by people... How is any of it natural??? What the hell does natural really mean... Manupilation is created by people. News of giant earthquakes would create 100,000's of links to be created. How could this be punished because of an overnight explosion. I believe the -50 or the penality that usually is recieved is just the search engine calculating where to place you in the serps... Its scary when it last months but there is no pressure on google because they dont owe webmasters anything. The process feels like forever but what ive noticed is it always comes back.
If you think the amount of links created and the timeframe are the only signals, you're an idiot.
What about the %age of these links that disapear within a few days? That's a huge signal right here. It screams **SPAM**. There are a lot more signals like this.
Dig deeper.
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