Google 3 Weeks: From $1,300 A Week To $300 A Week...

Hello Guys,

I despearately needed to sign-up to this site. Very talented people over here. I would like to share my situation so hopefully can learn from it and even give me few tips on it. Kind of a mistake not being in business for yourself and not reading the forums as often as needed. Lesson learned. Here is my little reality story:

Out of no-where Google decided to eliminate from their index search engine channels my main affiliate and eBook business sites. From being in the top 3 for the main profitable keywords with minimums of 800 plus targeted visits a month, I am now no-where to be found on Google for such profitable words.

Take a mortgage payment of almost $3,000/per month payments and loans to pay, and the only thing remaining is my two social networking sites with just a few additional sites remaining with $3-4k a month in passive revenue.

Potential Issues I Believe Are Causing This:

LinkMarket.Net
Links-Exchange.Net
LinkDash.Com
SeoLinkExchange.Com

Can anyone confirm the potential possibility of me being affiliated with this cause my index and sub-pages from Google being de-index and out of the Google search query?

Thing is, I'm still doing fine with Yahoo and MSN... but I need to discuss this. Anyone know a little about this? The likely mistake here was not deleting my account from those sites.

Anyone agree or has potential solving issues/suggestions for this?

Thanks for reading.

Jonathan

 

If you have mortgage, you better get a "normal" job that provides guaranteed income. I would not rely on internet income to pay off a mortgage.

 

Of course that is inadequate advice.

I would not rely on something as random and uncontrollable as search engine traffic to pay off a mortgage though.

 

WOW! what a welcome message I guess. Anyways thank you for your suggestion. However, please consider removing...

...if you think that paying a mortgage from Internet income will be a bad idea

Not here to form controversy, just to get potential facts as probabl causes of Google turning "Bad Boy" on me.

Can the above sites that I mention be related?

Thanks.

Jonathan

 

If you over-used these then a google ban/penalty wouldn't be surprising.

 

I did not mean to be controversial. What I mean is, income from adsense can be quite volatile, even for biggish earners, that relying on it to make repayments on a big loan is pretty risky. However, I would assume you have income from other places.

 

My advice:

- Still have a look on competition
- Check your inurl:website_address and see if any real bad neighbourhood websites were linking to you (It's a blackhat technique, maybe done on purpose, not sure how to avoid)
- Try checking your real position in Google for the specific keyword, using this perticular website http://www.googlerankings.com/

All best wishes, hope you fix this, it's frustrating comming from top to bottom.. hope it helped

 

Ok, first make absolutely certain that your sites have (or have not) been banned. You state that they're banned, deindexed, and nowhere to be found. Are your sites banned or have they just dropped in the SERPs? There's a huge difference.

Second - google is in the middle of one hell of an algo and SERP update. Lots of old established sites are jumping around. I've got stuff that's fallen from top 10 to below 300 in one day. It happens.

Third - As stated already, check your competition. There's a good chance they've increased their backlinks and other SEO techniques and you're simply being outranked. You stated yourself that you haven't been keeping up with those things. The internet, as you know, is a dynamic place. You can be here today and gone later today.

Fourth - I seriously doubt the link exchanges you mentioned would cause your site to be delisted. You ""MAY"" be penalized in some weird way that only google understands. Don't go dropping yourself from link exchanges that are bringing you traffic. Wait a few days. Keep checking the SERPS. See if your sites are moving up and down. Let things settle.

Meanwhile, get more backlinks with targetted anchor text.

 

Google states that a lot of unrelated links in the footer can give you discredit ranking wise.

 

Do you have a sitemap with Google? www.google.com/webmasters

That took one of my sites from 1 indexed page to 1750.

 

Link farming and buying links has brought down many profitable sites owned by people I know personally. Natural and manual link building (asking a webmaster to join an affiliate program, posting to free directories, etc.) is boring and takes time, but in the long run it seems to help. It's a much better investment.

BTW 3000 for a mortgage!!?? Maybe an apartment or a smaller house would be a good idea as well.

 

I assume that link exchange services allow control over themselfs, so you can choose with wich site you want to exchange, just do it with relevant sites and you will be ok.

 

Hope your situation improves.

What does Google Webmaster tool say on pages indexed?

 

I would take off all links on your site that don't link to reputable, related sites (sites you would be willing to show your mother). I'd do that without waiting a moment.
Link exchange as a basis for link-building is not a good idea and a google representative said so recently.
If those sites stop linking to yours - so be it.

 

You should check out if you are linking to a bad neighbor.... some users already posted above.. avoid linking to sites that are not quite related to yours.. ...

 

I sorry to hear what have happened to you. Just yesterday i was reading about a guy making really good money from adsense. I have no idea if those links did effect you. I hope your site gets back its position as $3000/month on loans is a big responsibility. Best of luck to you.

 

Man, that sucks. I'll edit back if I can think of any tips.

 

I used LinkMarket.net for a while a long time ago and also LinkMetro.com and I was "accused" by MSN for having an "illigitimate linkexchange" and was banned Not a good idea to use any link exchange site anymore.

 

I tried using that (googlerankings.com), and don't have a Google API key. Likely he does not have one either, it won't work for new users.