when i search www.domainname my listing is 3 pages in ???

[mobilebay]

any ideas why my listing when i search for my domAIn (the insurance one in my sig) it appears around 3 pages later not first or 2nd , is this the alledged -30 penalty , and if so any ideas how to stop it and recover?

any help appreciated ;)

thanks people

[Jack Squat]

I guess google forced you to change your way of thinking about just adding content (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=239292).

For my site that was hit with this penalty it seemed to be all about affiliate links. I had a young site with very little reputation and added quite a bit of affiliate code to just a few pages and the site went to page 4 then to page 100 and back and forth in between. Here is the cliff notes version of what happened.

1- added a bunch of affiliate code and went to page 4
2- removed pages immediately
3- 2 weeks later submitted reinclusion via webmaster tools
4- 1 week after inclusion request returned to normal
5- 3 days later I was knocked back and noticed the pages were still cached
and due to an issue with my site the removed pages did not return 404 error.
6- site remained on page 4 for 3 weeks while I tried everything possible.
7- removed pages and made sure they returned a 404
8- blocked those pages with robots.txt and removed them from cache with google url removal tool.
9- 3 days after properly removing the pages the site returned without a reinclusion request.

I know it could be coincidence but it seemed like google wanted to make sure those pages were gone from site. During this time content was added and links were gained. I know your situation might be different but I hope that you can at least find something to try from my horrible experience.

good luck

[mobilebay]

lol, thats where i got the idea Jack and thanks, my site is 1 yr 2 months old, i just added an affiliate ad sitewide, hmm got me thinking...

thanks for the advice and case

I guess google forced you to change your way of thinking about just adding content (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=239292).

For my site that was hit with this penalty it seemed to be all about affiliate links. I had a young site with very little reputation and added quite a bit of affiliate code to just a few pages and the site went to page 4 then to page 100 and back and forth in between. Here is the cliff notes version of what happened.

1- added a bunch of affiliate code and went to page 4
2- removed pages immediately
3- 2 weeks later submitted reinclusion via webmaster tools
4- 1 week after inclusion request returned to normal
5- 3 days later I was knocked back and noticed the pages were still cached
and due to an issue with my site the removed pages did not return 404 error.
6- site remained on page 4 for 3 weeks while I tried everything possible.
7- removed pages and made sure they returned a 404
8- blocked those pages with robots.txt and removed them from cache with google url removal tool.
9- 3 days after properly removing the pages the site returned without a reinclusion request.

I know it could be coincidence but it seemed like google wanted to make sure those pages were gone from site. During this time content was added and links were gained. I know your situation might be different but I hope that you can at least find something to try from my horrible experience.

good luck

[Jack Squat]

hopefully you can trace back and pinpoint the problem. one thing I learned is to avoid the shotgun approach at the fixing the site. As far as the affiliate links go, I added more than 1 when my site was affected:D Keep a log of what and when you change and be sure to utilize all google's webmaster tools.

[mobilebay]

im wondering if its omg 's longtail affilate addresses , any ideas?

i changed my affiliate , link to a js include... see what happens , cheers 4 the advice ;)

ben:0)

[Joesy]

Mmmm... I get "Stumbleupon" which contains your website address in it as number #1 in Google for: www. easyinsurance4you

[mobilebay]

yeh thats what i mean, the only thing i can put it down to is adding a longtail affil link, now changed it to JS lets see what that does :0)