Delisted in Google for inboung linking. How long until recovery?

Get 100-500 high PR article links, it'll be back about 2-4 weeks after.

 

Either Google is doing a very rubbish job at penalizing unnatural linking or the above statement is false. Which is it?

 

So you actually had 2 paid for people on staff and you had to fire them because of lost sales.
Since 2 paid for people tend to cost money I assume you could pay them because you earned money, if so was there no option to redirect part of your income to ppc or ppa advertisments on google or other ad platforms to attract visitors ?

 

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/
http://bakersfield.craigslist.org/
http://fresno.craigslist.org/
http://monteray.craigslist.org/
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/

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I could go on, there are HUNDREDS of sub domains, all inter-linking. Yeah craigslist has a great amount of trust-rank, but I doubt that the subdomain interlinking was a problem for the OP, especially if the subdomains were relatively different. Do some research before calling someone out as wrong.

 

You shouldn't be mad at people here, everyone is trying to help you with their experience even if it is not helpful for you. Its an open forum not customer support, we don't owe you anything, neither does Google, so please be polite!!!!!

 

For a professional SEO to say banned vs. penalized and to say sub sites which can easily be taken as subdomain....

There is a site - memorials com who has many other sites pointing to the main site. They are designed similar to a MFA site, but with overall higher quality content. You may be the one who made the sites??? See cremationurn net as an example.

Are you saying what they are doing will get them penalized?

 

I feel that you may have been banned due to duplicate content. I have a blog which got delisted completely due to duplicate content and several manual reconsiderations paid no results. It has been almost 8 months and the site has still not got indexed.

 

LOL!

Oh the irony! I think you should do the research my friend before opening your mouth. You are wrong and you should appologise, but I would presume you are one of these people that will either ignore this now or still argue the fact knowing your wrong.

Posted on Jul 28th 2009, 10:15 pm

READ THIS - OH and USE the search button one once in a while.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=12091880

Your comments on this forum are what ruins debates like this as people will read your post first before the facts.

A quick sample just from the homepage.

http://24hoursoncraigslist.com
http://craigslistfoundation.org/
http://territories.craigslist.ca/
http://calgary.craigslist.ca/
http://athens.craigslist.gr/
http://bangalore.craigslist.co.in/
http://beijing.craigslist.com.cn/
http://london.craigslist.co.uk/
http://madrid.craigslist.es/
http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/
http://melbourne.craigslist.com.au/
http://mexicocity.craigslist.com.mx/
http://shanghai.craigslist.com.tw/
http://tokyo.craigslist.jp/
http://zurich.craigslist.ch/

Each sites homepage and more interlinks back to the homepage http://www.craigslist.org without no follows.

Classic noob! HAHAHA

Ditto my friend.


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The reason I bring this all up is exactly for questions like yours. If indeed you have used whitehat tactics and that is the only reason the:-

Watch this:
http://gregable.com/2009/08/duplicate-content-multiple-site-issues.html

In my opinion Greg Grothaus is either a liar or is not very good at his job!

Whatever one he chooses will create an interesting situation for him.

8 months ago sounds around the date of the Algo update in March time, is that correct? (about 7 months ago)

 

Sorry, I'm trying to keep up but you have lost me, who is this directed at?

 

check WHT

http://www.webhostingtalk.com
They have links to all their sites in forum footer and don't have any issues with Google

OP,
was there any duplicate content?

 

Siredted at solarpanelsdirect

 

I think this is because the links are mostly web hosting and Google looks at these links differently because so many sites link back to a webmaster/designer/hosting type of site. What do you think?

 

I'm experiencing the same problem..

The difference is, I can wait till next August for my rankings to improve so I'm testing with few "new" things and methods.

First, Ive done the same thing, had 6 domains on different languages, all different IP's, TLDs and whois, unique content, SEO was done by the book + I have like 7 successful years in seo business.. so I thought, what can go wrong..

I linked them heavily through footer and language flags above the header. All the links, from all the inner pages were pointing to homepages of 6 domains..

I know it was kinda shady technique but I had to try..

After 2 months of nice progress on serps, happened exactly same thing that happened to you.

So what I did next;

1 n half month ago Ive paced all my sites on same IP , I wrote contact forms with my comapany details on every domain, placed TOS and submitted all of my domains to local business directories with correct company details ( paid submission only to few authoritative local dirs ), and Ive done even more heavy internal linking.
All of my 6 sites and all the inner pages ( apx 7000 inner pages each website ) were linking to each other from language flags above the footer.
For example: www. xyz.com/folder/page I linked to wwwxyz.de/folder/page and so on.. Links in flag images are titled ( same link title as H1 of the site they are linking to ).

So all the domains, folders and inner pages were connected to each other.

Many of you will prob say that I have no clue about SEO and I'm gambling to much, but G thinks different

My goal was to make google to see all my domains as ONE project and to give

weight to ALL of my domains as it was 1 domain. That I couldn't do with diff IPs and footer links only.

Now I'm seeing a great progress, its kinda slower that I was hoping but its here.. Im monitoring progress and I see that after my "new sites" are crawled and indexed, they go up on the serps.

Im no1-5. on thousands of long tail kw's with almost every inner page on they're languages. ( I wasn't there before )

G actually sees all my domains as 1 project and gives link value to all my inner pages.

I have to say, 3 of my homepages are still under penalty and they are ranking same as before but I see huge progress on all of the inner pages and categories so Im kinda sure that its just metter of time for homepages to go on SERP's surface .. 3 other homepages are doing well and on 1 Im already no3. on my top kw.


Of course, I'm spending bunch of time on quality linkbuilding and offpage seo but I was doing the same thing before penalty and it wasnt helped me in any way.. like song says, I was going deepr and deeper..

I cant and I wont say its a way for every one to rank higher, here is bunch of seo factors included, specially in onsite part and authoritative backlinks.

Normally I would suggest this technique only to my worst enemy but hey, it done good to me ..and if I go down again, I can afford it.

G'luck Seobiznezz !

 

I think the issue here is that no one knows for sure how temperamental Google is when comes to specific sites, and by that I mean....if I create a site with 10 subdomains and sitewide links going back to it's mother site..I may get sandboxed. Craigslist can commit the same act with 100 subdomains and not receive that penalty. The difference is the level of trust and age of the domain. Google would be crazy to de-index sites of that stature and tenure.

But here's something I read that disturbed me. It was from a recent post by Matt Cutts. He claims that if an Auto Dealership has multiple locations and multiple websites (for each location) and they all link back to the mother site that they "may" get penalized because this falls under the definition of what some refer to a "mini-net".

Is that an intentional attempt to manipulate SERP's? Not in most opinions but it's their Machine and they can make case by case decisions.

Is there any disagreement in that?

 

I had a similar scenario. I too got delisted for about 48 hours. When I searched for my domain name there we're over 88K backlinks That's probably what did it but thankfully the delist only lasted 1-2 days.