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Old 10-19-2008, 12:27 AM
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What do you do if you get one of these penalties? I have to poker room specific sites that have been #1 for their targeted keywords. A few days ago I noticed that they had disappeared form the SERPS, come to fin out they are both at #50 now lol..

I never bought links, sold links, or even liked to these sites. Not sure what I could have done to cause this. I don't do any shady linking or anything like that.

Any advice? Thoughts? How will I come out of this? Are -50 type penalties manual penalties??
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Old 10-19-2008, 01:32 PM
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I had a site that ended up in such a filter. I removed all internal links linking to my homepage using that specific term I was targeting and after a few weeks I was back on top again. So you might give that a try.
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Old 10-19-2008, 06:22 PM
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I relaly don;t think this is an internal linking issue though.

Randy/PPP, any wisdom here?? Anyone?
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Old 10-19-2008, 06:50 PM
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Ridge, are these new-ish sites?

I had two new site specific sites that ranked #1 for a time, then dropped to 100, and within 4 weeks recovered to top five again.
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Old 10-19-2008, 06:54 PM
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What do you do if you get one of these penalties? I have to poker room specific sites that have been #1 for their targeted keywords. A few days ago I noticed that they had disappeared form the SERPS, come to fin out they are both at #50 now lol..

I never bought links, sold links, or even liked to these sites. Not sure what I could have done to cause this. I don't do any shady linking or anything like that.

Any advice? Thoughts? How will I come out of this? Are -50 type penalties manual penalties??
I believe these penaltys are triggered and implemented automatically, can you share the site url?
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Old 10-19-2008, 08:46 PM
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One SEO strategy that almost always works: add more content.
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Old 10-19-2008, 08:48 PM
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hehe, thanks Randy -

These are not new sites, well they are a few months old.. Randy has it right though, I don't have much content on these..
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are you number 50 for yourdomain no .com? That's a good way to check for a factual -50 penalty. The -50 isn't the link buy/sell penalty, that penalty directly effects PR and trust, perhaps could lose ya some backlinks which could cost ya some rank, but it's not a 50 spot set back ..
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well they are a few months old.. I don't have much content on these..
I think you pretty much summed it up there. Lack of new content, refreshed content, and new incoming links = time to get pushed down.

I've suffered three penalties before. One comes and goes every few months for a specific page and the other two were caused accidently by Google....so don't ever rule out Google's algo gettin ya.
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Old 10-20-2008, 02:11 AM
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Yeah, Randy was nice enough to look at these sites and he basically said "Um, add some content dumbass"!

Ok, that's not exactly what he said, but close enough.

I just need to get off my ass and pay attention better. New content and some links will probably correct this. Luckily several of the other site son Page 1 for these terms are mine, so I'll get through it..
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