Hi thanks for the tip. The reason i have images from pooldawg is that the site is an affiliate website from shareasale I signed up as an affiliate of pooldawg and got there csv file that comes with text and images to create an affiliate store. I have a few affiliate site that have products and text that has been created with csv files i just hope that this will not effect the others also. So if i was to contact google to ask them why? what would be the correct email address for them ??
It seems everyone on DP has posted on this thread except me. I certainly do not want to feel as an outsider.
heck, could someone help lock this thread until Google update began? I can't resist myself checking this thread every hour
FRom what I have read, Google has made an effort to weed out "bad" affiliate web sites from their index. Check out this information: http://www.searchbistro.com/spamguide.doc or do a seach for "Google affiliate spam". As far as contacting Google, you can find information on how to contact them at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/update-jagger-contacting-google/ for more info and a link to reinclusion requests.
A question to MC on 2nd Feb and his answer Q: Will the PR update take palce with BD update? AR updates are completely orthogonal. That means that we dont have to wait for BD update to see our PR changes but the question is when?
My website pages are re-considered by google. The traffic for my site increased 3 times starting 3.02.2006, 8 PM GMT. The IBL is the same and ranking (wich I hope to update 4 > 5) also. May be just a SERP re-consideration, but I wait for this about 3 or 4 months.
My SERPs are all over the place now. For all my sites. After being stable for around 3 months most of the keywords jumped or dropped quite a few spots.
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My traffic from google is x2 its normal level for today. This is a first for me, it never goes above 50 visitors in a day, I'm already at 75 for the day with 6 hours or so left to go.