Hi I just read this on another forum, but I think that google has dropped big mouth media homepage from google!! They used to be in first place for search engine optimisation, now the page isn't cached. http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/
I doubt the penalty will stick...big companies have a way of getting out of problems with Google. Their site is still indexed and has indexed backlinks. With Google rankings you never know if things like this are temporary or not.
Sites can still be indexed and have a penalty. The definitely an issue with their homepage, all the site is indexed apart from the homepage. It is possible there is an issue with the CMS that has screwed things up.
They have problem with Google because of sometime against the rule in the homepage, I think it is going to be resolve soon.
site:domain.com still shows a lot of result. It doesn't look like a penalty. Maybe a temp issue there. http://209.85.229.132/search?hl=en&q=site:http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/&btnG=Search
Not cached by google does not mean the site is penalized. It could be temporarily down just in time as google tried to crawl for it's cache file.
Their homepage has been cached but I do agreed that they have been penalized in some sort. Their homepage do not ranked #1 when do search for its domain with and without extension. Plus their links has been de-listed by Google too. If you do search with info operator. (info:bigmouthmedia.com) you will found that www.g-maps.com has been come up instead of them, which is redirected to bigmouthmedia.com. I bet their is something correlation between the redirect and the penalization.
now a days, google very strict due to lot of spamming done by people, so we need to follow google guideline to save punishment.
Google doesnt care who it is they will get you if you dont do as they say just like they did to the bmw site
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@hoffman19 - Your #5 and #6 items are spot on. I tell clients all the time that, if we are handling link building for them, that they'll need to allow us to spend time a resources to also get links from nofollowed locations and also allow us to get links from every possible type of site imaginable. I believe our internal link building wiki has around 16,000 places to build links now - nofollowed and followed, allowing content/hosted pages, social sites, forums, blogs, other wikis, etc etc. Mixing is the only way to go.
How about if a big company such as Google or Microsoft launch a new website and the website get tons of backlinks from all over the world? Why it is not possible to get hundreds of websites link to a brand new website? Okay, for Artificial Backlinks. According to your point, I can simply build the same anchor text links to my competitor's site and get it penalized. If big company such as Google or Microsoft launch a new website ABC, if the website get the same anchor text ABC linked to it then it looks artificial and there’s a high risk of being penalized? I don't think a website will be penalized for something that the webmaster cant control. Especially the backlinks not only can be build by the webmaster of the site, it can also bone by competitors.
I have heard about BMM several times that it has been penalized by Google but when I check the status in Google, it's all fine there.