So, how did Google penalize your site?

"With all of the messages on this board about PR0 and other Google penalties, I thought it might be useful to create a thread where those who have been penalized by Google in the past explain exactly how they were punished and what they were doing on their site(s) that may have caused it. This way, whenever someone asks about what causes a penalty and what to avoid, we can simply point them in this direction. It would also be useful to see which tactics tend to be penalized most frequently..." jaytierney

Ok, the truth everyone.

1. How did Google penalize your site?
2. What were you doing to get the penality?
3. What did you do to fix it?
4. Did it work?
5. And how long did it take?

Thanks to Ssandecki

 

I've had my site hacked before, and the hacker posted links to ch*ld porn, beastal*ty and warez sites. The site dropped totally off rankings within a day, and I searched and found the source of the problem.

I removed the links, waited, and within 48 hours my site was restored. Google is forgiving, and google knows what hackers do.

 

Ok, I really don't want to repeat the content and its 4 am here but I want to put forward these 11 points on Why site lose rankings (I have Seen all of them happening) as well as as this post on why sites get deindexed.

Let the discussion begin and I will reply to the posts in the morning.

Cheers

 

We were selling printer parts. So we created ~ 20 web sites. And yes, we crossed linked them all. For ~ 6 months sales were great until someone ratted us out. Within 1 week, everything was removed.

If you look today, the "scraper" have very nice "orginal" content. We have 19 PR0 sites and 1 PR1 site.

 

yes linking each other from the same IP address can kill you.

 

I also get links very fast and get dropped in the SERPs.

 

interesting conversation

 

I didnt know that.

Checking my sites now for cross linking.

 

The cross linking debate has been going on for a while, there are those who swear it gets penalized, and those who swear it is not. You can risk it or play it safe, it is up to you.