anyone encounter google penalty? I wanna know what does it like to google punish your site. remove your site from google data? or dramatic degrade your rank on purpose by man-made?
it's done all the time. i bet the bigger site flip flop all the time. till they filp or flop big time.
same happened to me i was ranking number 2 in google for "fun online games" and "online flash games" for 3 months and right after the last update both rankings were gone! Have no freaking idea why. I think it might be because i have some adult content on the site! I am still ranking well for "sexy flash games" and "adult flash games"
I don't think you guys were penalized, same thing happened to me for two sites and several keyword phrases, and there would be no reason for them to have been penalized. I think whatever G did with their algo on the April update caused this to happen with many websites.
i think every site had some penalies from google for some time period. but google never says the reasons
I think any SEO that wants to push his site to the max will at one time or another feel the wrap of a Google penalty. They come in all sorts of spaces and sizes and some are easier to fix than others.
I have had 2 sites hit with a google penalty this year. One was hit because it linked out to my lingerie site 2 times on every page. Made all the links nofollow and came back!! Now I rank for high heels, sexy shoes and what ever else I want to target. Lingerie takes a hit I'm still dealing with and I blame most of that hit on crap inbounds going supplemental and the the links page I used to have with MANY unrelated sites on it. I also think you can take a hit for letting your site go stale. (Not adding new pages) My lingerie site is crawling back and is now ranking for stuff like sexy lingerie and PVC lingerie but I still have a long tail problem. The lingerie site went from 12,000 google references a day to about 400 a day in less than 3 days when it was hit. I dont think there is such a thing as a time based penalty. I could be wrong but I think different sites get hot for different reasons and once the problem is fixed you will crawl back. Not flash back like so many think happens.
My friend many sites have been killed by google~~ Because they do the SEO so "fast"~ Just 10 day the site reach the top~~
I had a site that they throw out of both google and msn index. I was trying a lot of stuff to get it to rank and went to far. Then I cleaned it up and came back in googles index, its out of msn still 7 months after.