I think the penalty is because of the same anchor text being used for all the backlinks. Such backlinks do not have natural looking profile. That is why it is advisable to change the anchor text for backlinks.
Thank you Rand for Clarification the point of URLS ending in .0 also Jane wrote all the Details with other Examples like . Out of Google's Index (but in Yahoo!): * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_4.0 * drupal.org/drupal-5.0 * keznews.com/3799_Vista_Transformation_Pack_8.0_Final_-_VTP_8.0 * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_8.0 * drupal.org/drupal-6.0 Cheers John
Well there is a phenomenon going around right now. Many sites have been losing their SERP's. I mean, many established sites that used to get a lot of traffic. This phenomenon started at the beginning of June. My site has also lost a great deal of it's serp's, no sign of improvement so far. Maybe this is the case with seomoz too.
Thats funny.. I never knew about the 0 stuff.. Thx for the info guys.. And I wish the best of luck for SEOmoz
interesting post I really never knew anything about that kinda stuff. So now I will have to look for NO zero in my URLs
That explains why SMF forums search engine friendly urls don't get indexed *sigh* things like /index.php?board=137.0 /index.php?topic=244522.0 vagrant
google incites rage in me. They took away my adsense because i had an influx of visitors on my site as well. what a joke.