I have checked your site thru backlinkwatch .. though you have not enough quality links to support PR6 but yes it shouldn't be PR0 too. It maybe some temporary glitch. and i hope for good soon.
I am starting to sound like a broken record, but here goes: I stopped using co-op before I started having problems
I removed link-vault 6 months ago but I am still having problems. google index and serps do not change real time.
If running co-op ads results in a google penalty, then everyone running them would be penalized. Everything I have done to computerbb I did to halobb at the exact same time, computerbb is penalized, halobb is not. The two have always been interlinked. This penalty is not a result of something I have done to computerbb because I did the exact same stuff at the same time to halobb.
halobb will have the same fate if you keep the coop. Let me show something, google site:www.computerbb.org check the cache 1 page that's supplemental (almost all of them) and check the time it was cached, then scroll down to the bottom of your page, there you go, coop links !
Your site is being battered by Google for a reason & i would say that is to do with Co-op, i had the same problem a few months back, a great forum with over 50,000 visitors per month, great SE rankings then came a sudden decline in SE ranking, visitors & even when i searched for my own domain in google i was on page 4 this was on going for months. I took note & removed the Co-op links & within 2-3 weeks my site was back to normal...
I was before, I wont be using automated link exchanges even it is for free (no links from my sites or fees), 10 relevent links are more valuable than thousands of those links, that's my experience anyway
I'll say it again..have you checked on your Google Web Master tools? I had a penalty (for duplicate content) and in my WebMaster Tools was a form to submit for re-inclusion. I fixed the problem and submitted the form. About a month or so later, the penalty was lifted...and there was no more re-inclusion form shown in my WebMaster Tools. I'd check to see if that re-inclusion form is there and check for other clues in WebMaster Tools. https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps
I am about to give up here. Did you actually check any of your internal pages such as this one? Check out the links. I just checked the source code and there are no links back to the home page. Do some digging you have problems with your site's nav right now.
I agree...so if you want to know what kind of penalty have you done, email google and do some actions...
Hrm, I am logged into Google Webmaster Tools and these are the tools they give me: Download data for all sites Report spam in our index Submit a reinclusion request Aren't those all standard? Ok, I am chaning the links from <a href="">.....</a> Code (markup): to <a href="http://www.computerbb.org">....</a> Code (markup):
Question, on the front page, where I link to all the subpages, it uses the code: a href="computer-help-forum-xxx.html" Code (markup): is that ok, or does it need to be a href="http://www.computerbb.org/computer-help-forum-xxx.html" Code (markup):
mhamdi If your sites are not already listed in the Google sitemaps and they have no clue who you are then i suggest you add your site here and were it says COMMENTS.. you might want to tell them you just bought the domain and want to get it indexed. I had just bought adultconnection and it stopped getting indexed then i added my site here with the message that this domain was just purchased and 2 days later it got re-indexed and its all good now so you may want to consider this option. thx malcolm
thanks malcolm, my site is actually indexed but most of the pages are supplemental now. that's why I say it is heavily penalized not banned.
they will be seen as absolute so there is no difference. ifyou set a relative link to page.htm from your domain root, google will see it as www .domain. com/page.htm The difference is getting the correct url, as long as you get the correct url when your page is online, there is no problem.
Google is not perfect, they ban some sites for hidden text and yet some have had hidden text and links for years and still don't get penalized. Just because one site got a penalty and the other didnt doesn't mean they weren't both doing wrong. Tons of people have recieved penalties for using the co-op network. you wouldn't be the first. You can take the advice or leave it but it does look like the most likely explanation.