SEOmoz Penalized By Google For No Reason!

Just discovered today that SEOmoz have had their web 2.0 awards page penalized by google, just because it was successful and lots of people linked to it.

More info. on my blog:

http://www.seoco.co.uk/blog/2008/06/12/seomoz-penalised-by-google-for-web-20-awards/

 

Will be interesting to see what happens with this one.

 

Sometimes I have seen site vanished from Google then come back later. It may be one of those cases.

 

seomoz are penalized? I still see them on google search results :S

 

Yeah but the page they have been penalised for is absent from the results.

 

Also worth knowing: The page used to have a PageRank 7/10 and now it has a gray bar.

 

I don't think because of this reason Google panelized SEOMoz.

How could you control others linking to your website ?

 

So true, they are not forcing people to link. It is a users choice. Check the page again it is showing page rank for me.

 

as the article says

it might be because of the link back which they gave in forum of badges!!

G many times takes things just too far I guess

 

No one was penalized lol - search for "web 2.0 awards" and you can see your site is there!

 

It is not the right page that comes up, the one that should come up is:

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0

Up until today it had a Google PageRank of 7/10 and ranked on the 1st page of Google for web 2.0

 

I am a member of SEOmoz and the page shows nothing for PR if I am logged in or not. It does however show a ton of back links.

 

I went to google and searched, then found the page, then clicked it...and seomoz is giving me a server not found for me...might that influence how google sees it?

 

if this true, then google is starting do evil now

 

It is better not depend on Google .

 

Hmmmm, thats interesting

 

what a pity to seomoz. i hope the others will find the better way to tweak google

 

google is becoming so crazy for these days. ranks are changing more than usual.

it also may be a temp. problem for seomoz

 

I crackled then laughed at this, ROFLMAO

 

Just FYI - the "penalty" isn't really a penalty at all. It's just a filter that Google puts on all URLs ending in .0 (they won't include them in their index). When we changed the awards URL from http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/ to http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0 (no trailing /), that caused the page to be booted from the index.

Jane wrote about this more at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unwritten-google-webmaster-guideline-dont-end-urls-in-0