Someone advised me one time as to how to recover a website from the Google blacklist. A friend / competitor of mine stumbled into the Google blacklist, and once he realized his mistake, he tried to fix the error. No go. He was missing from Google for about 9 months, until I learned a way out for him and he tried it. It worked well. I was advised that all one needed to do to buck the blacklist was to allow the site to change ownership. The guy who told me about it changed ownership from his name to his wife's name. The fellow who I had advised changed ownership from his name to a company name. In both cases, the sites were removed from the blacklist in less than seven days.
wow........Google spam list is so important these days now....... Heard from some one that Google authority ship is been distributed in many people of your country.....10 of them sees your site and decide about rankings..... they see 1) back links 2) Original content 3) relevancy.... I will advice to see your back links in google webmasters tools and do remove recent Ads or changes for some days to see that does this come to normal again.
i'm some of the same problems. My site recently has dropped in search rankings. I'm now trying to retrace my steps as to the cause.
Google and Yahoo seem to be in a race to see who can crawl a website faster. With my sites, Yahoo tends to crawl more frequently, by a rate of 2x Google. I have to be honest. 90% of my online marketing and promotion is done through article marketing. I write and distribute articles through my own article distribution service. With a few of my articles, I utilize other article distribution companies as well, to ensure more diversity in my linking portfolio. To understand what I mean about a "linking portfolio", read this article I wrote on the topic at SEO-News.com The remaining 10% of my marketing is in the form of helping people in forums like this one, social bookmarking, blogs, on-site SEO, referrals, and paid advertising. When I launch an article into the big wide world of the Internet, those articles typically appear in Google results first, and Yahoo second (and Yahoo counts more of the placements of those articles). With some articles, I try only to place a plain text link (where the link appears as the URL to the website, for example: http://www.yourdomainurl.com) and with other articles, I try to place keywords in the links as embedded anchor text. I try to make the plain text link the more prevalent of the linking style, to ensure that none of my keyword links outnumber my plain text links. One of Google's red flags is when they notice a link to a particular website appearing more than 60% of the time with one specific keyword phrase. As a result, in addition to including plain text urls with the articles, I rotate the keywords I target in my embedded anchor text links. Whenever I am targeting a specific keyword phrase, I always rank well first in MSN, then Yahoo and then Google. When I reach the top of the pile for Google, I am generally already at the top of the pile for MSN and Yahoo. Same as the smaller websites, most of my search traffic comes from Google alone. In 2007, Google accounted for 52% of my search traffic. The other 48% of my search traffic was derived from 59 other search engines, with the majority of that coming from Yahoo, Windows Live, Ask and MSN, in that order. These four engines accounted for another 42% of my search traffic. That means that the top five search engines accounted for fully 94% of my overall search traffic. My secret to search engine success simply is article marketing with a focus on developing a diversity of linking websites, linked urls (I target several urls across my domains), and linking structures. I hope this makes sense and is helpful to you.
Exact same thing happen to me about 3 days ago, and not just one site about 2 - 3 of my sites, still cant work out why, just lost 80%-90% of its organic G traffic, see my stats above. If i work out why i will let you all know, but for now im just trying to build new quality backlinks in the vein hope to get the SERPs back
Google made some (big) changes last week - more than the regular everflux/GoogleDance... My site dropped from #1 for many terms, to nowhere last wed or thursday. it recovered a bit yesterday, but today it's dropped to nowhere again.. I use Kontera also.. hopefully that's just coincidence ..
I am experiencing a similar problem across all my sites the last few days; it happened a couple of weeks ago as well and then the SERPs came back. I don't worry too much about it at the moment; I will worry and take action in a couple of weeks if things don't improve. I suspect like many others have pointed out on this thread that this could be just another major update and the good sites will be back at the top soon. I guess I should mention that all my sites have unique content and do nothing to violate Google's TOS. Cheers!
That's a huge loss, and it shows the power Google has over making or breaking a business. That's part of the reason I am dead set against Yahoo and Microsoft merging. If anything, we need more search providers so that being delisted from one does not kill businesses. Maybe a pipe dream, but I would hope sooner or later Google's dominance will be challenged by inovation - even if its not from Microsoft or Yahoo. One of my sites was hit a few weeks before yours and never recovered either. Just as yours, it has a spotless backlink profile and even packs some good PR throughout the site. About the only thing it ranks for is its url, which technically should not rank if its penalized. Those reconsideration requests are a joke. We have no idea if they ever saw them or not. Now I'm not asking Google to diagnose rankings, but with a 100% compliant site it really has left many people wondering how subjective these reconsideration requests really are. Did you move to a different domain and start rebuilding? I never bothered because the site was not making much money and was more or less hobby related. Regardless, it still hold page 1 listings at Yahoo and Live. Even with that it gets 1/10th the traffic it used to...
same thing happened to me on the 5th June for my site..i was ranking top for a 2-word keyword and 3rd for another 2-word keyword..but on the 5th June..it disappeared Anyway, this morning i noticed that my site is back again..strange...but the traffic is not really back yet.. still need to monitor and pray hard that this is permanent.. Cos one of my hubpages disappeared from google for good even though it is ranked 2nd on yahoo, even on top of the company that my page is about... sigh..i can never figure out what google is trying to do...
I wish you were right, but you're completely off. The "official" share of Google is in the high 70%, almost 80% of traffic (78% +/-). Thus, unfortunately, not many people can survive on 20% of traffic. I have a site that was on G 1st page but not on Y/Live top page, and got a ton of traffic - for the same KW, another site 1st page on Y/live and gets about 1/10ths of the traffic or less! Google is essentially about 80-85% of search if you ask me.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=4 Search Engine Total Market Share View Trend Google - Global 78.23% View Trend Yahoo - Global 11.68% View Trend MSN - Global 2.95% View Trend AOL - Global 2.52% View Trend Microsoft Live Search 2.41% View Trend Ask - Global 1.27% View Trend AltaVista - Global 0.10% View Trend Excite - Global 0.05% View Trend All the Web - Global 0.01% View Trend Lycos - Global 0.01% Report generated Monday, June 09, 2008 5:53:28 AM
Happend to me today. My site lost almost 80% of the traffic it normally receives daily. Havent changed anything on the site. Not a single thing. Used to rank #3 for a very competitive keyword. My site maintained that ranking for almost 1 year now, and now i cant find it in the first 100 results. I noticed the fact that on google.com, my site still has very good rankings, however on google.ro.. serps vanished. What could be the possible reasons, guys? Also, what's your advice?
Neutral to me! But still looking forward to work out on my lose in almost all of the main keywords that ranked in top 5 and gives me great traffics!
Has anyone else heard of this? Can Google really blacklist you based on the information held in the whois records?
I got hit about 4 days ago as well. After listening to some of the issues mentioned here, I think Google might have docked me for similar content. Before this update, I had several listings where I'd be say 4th and then a sub page right under it was ranked 5th. The problem is now Google is listing the weaker of the pages for the term. I had schools listings and career advice. Where I ranked say 4th for the school term of say "fashion design schools", it's now listing my page on how to become a fashion designer, but not the actual school page. The actually school page which is far more relevant to the search terms dropped from 4th to 22nd, while my less relevant page stayed higher up. Should I be trying to use more differentiating terms on the pages so Google doesn't get confused?
My site has climbed a bit. It was ranking #21 after dropping from page 1 and #3 a month ago and today it has climbed up to #12. Lets hope it stays there because within a couple of minutes, I found the site missing from #12 and found it standing at #21. I was making $100+ and now it's $2. I would love to rank well on YAHOO but I have no idea what I should do to rank well on Yahoo. It seems so lazy and so pathetic when it comes to search quality. I have fixed every small thing that I could to fix the site. I am working on the content again. I think there are a couple of duplicate pages and I am going to re-write them which reminds me I have a simple question related to SEO If I find a page that's not duplicate (cuz others have copied it) and if I change its text but the URL remains the same, would that make any difference? Or should I delete it altogether and add another page with a different page name and unique content? What works better? You can find what happened to my site here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=874813 Hopefully, we'll all soon figure out what's happening with Google real soon Z