Looking at the bottom sig link I would have to wonder what you learned, you have gone to a great deal of effort to try to outsmart Google. Seems Google decided to show you who is more intelligent. You need to clean up the artificial methods you used for weightloss&diets.com before submitting the re-inclusion request. http://www.theacomplia.com/linkmachine/aomplia-resources/acompliares_health_weight_loss.htm Linkmachine????? should have been a clue for you.....seems it was for Google lol..
Did some research - found out what was wrong with linkmachine. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=7d2a799bd765defc&hl=en Your link is returning a 404 page. is it supposed to? As far as my signature is concerned, 1 affiliate link, 1 affiliate site, 1 site I'm working on and kept forgetting that I own. What's wrong with it?
I was not insulting you. I state fact and many people don't like my straightforward demeanor....but I pull no punches. You yourself admitted that you were banned so I don't see how I insulted you.....might have ribbed you a bit but thats the extent of it to be honest. Male enhancement type of sites often leave a negative connotation...and most who promote them do so using the wrong tactics so to speak. Not sure which link you found returning a 404....Thank you for letting me know either way....
How would you go about asking for reconsideration? I just had a site that was on page one for a bunch of keywords and now is in la la land somewhere.
Google is penalising duplicate contents this days. It is not -50 penalty. It is breaking Google webmasters guidelines.
I have been there myself with one of my very successful websites. After an aggressive link building and some hosting issues, the serps went down big time that I used to receive only 1 fifth the regular number of visits from google. I did many things to fix it but nothing worked and nothing was necessary actually. I came across a very good article on the web which said these symptoms refer to sandbox (-50 in your language) and that all you need is to wait for months (9 months indeed). I waited for 5 months and suddenly the serps started to be as they were in the past. The targeted keywords, which I used in link building, took like 2 more months to come back to me.
I edited my earlier message, deciding that I was over-reacting. (It didn't help that the plumber was telling me I needed a $1,500 pump for the furnace right after I read your reply) And I pulled my link machine installs on both sites. Thanks for the info as the Linkmachine installation has been there since maybe 2004. BYT took a hit last Spring, when I was seeing a 1,000 visitors daily. I worked very hard on it before it tanked and Weight Loss and Diets has been driving me crazy because I had no idea what was wrong with it. Very conscious about the "male enhancement" thing. I don't send emails, decided to play this solely on search results. Very careful what goes up on that site as bad karma sucks. I actually wrote an article about the whole Enzyte scandal - and how people kept ordering the stuff, swearing it works - that's how I got into the enhancement niche, after doing the research. If they're going to spend the money anyway...send some of it to me. I really appreciate your response. Thanks! V.
Sign into your Google account. Go to Webmaster Tools. On the right-hand side under "Talk to Google" you'll see Request reconsideration. Before You Tattoo is original content. There is ONE Ezinearticles article. Anything I've posted for article marketing - maybe 3 articles - were rewritten in their entirety and posted once. So dup content penalty should not apply. The other site is a mix of original and PLR. It's been a year on sites that have been up since 2003 and 2002. Not the sandbox. And just for laughs - I have a 1 page site with duplicate content that is a PR3 and ranks highly. Go figure.
I know the shock from the furnace bill can make someone crazy so no problem. Hopefully the male enhancement thing can kick in some $$$ and yes people will spend their money as long as they think what they are buying will help them. Is the Joomla site yours? I may have some work for you if so. Let me know in PM
thanks for sharing the experience, if really need 9 months to recover, i think that will kill me did you take any other action beside fixing your website?
I have a website also to experience the similar situation, but at that time should enters sandbox period.
I am 100% agree with marksz. Because Google has been changed it's algorithm before few months. And if you not follow then your site have maximum chances to penalize. If you want to see your site in first page, you should do organic and google friendly link building.
How would you describe too much link building? Are we talking thousands of links? I want to do link building, but I don't want to be penalized like the cases above.
GOOGLE PENALTY This is what I really hate about Google, why do they have to do such penalizing al the hard work you had done will just be put intro trash. recovering from such penalization is kinda hard for you should do double effort