Google certainly gave me a "-30" or "-60" and a few "-100" penalties for mostly all targeted keywords..... why? I don't know It all happened when I tons of internal links onto the homepage, and put content from my 2nd most popular page onto my first.... I am now ranking very crappy for 24 out of 25 for my targeted keywords, as well as ranking crappy for 100% of my long-tailed keyword I am still come up 1st page for 1 keyword..... I do not know why Also, my subpages have not been effected by the penalty.. they are still ranking in place........ but my strong homepage that was bringing in all the hits a day has been badly damaged BLACK HAT THEORY: I also have another theory....... I have been building links in Gangster Ways..... such as signing up on reciprocal link forms, and then not linking to the other people.... telling them to screw.... and also writing tons of articles with the same anchor text I read this could be a problem.... But then, isnt sabotaging competitors possible by giving them over-optimized links?
Hi Ot1282, When did you first notice this effect with your homepage? It could just be Google shuffling things around for everyone; temporary. Bompa
It started about 2 weeks ago..... I was 1st page for about 20 keywords........ now im around #100 for the same keywords, and 100% of my competitors are still in place
It could take quite a while still, if at all. Google is really mysterious when it comes to these sorts of things.