Yes sir! I am a believer! Google serve me lots of 0 pagerank. The funny thing is they will update my sites with a pagerank and remove it a few days later.

Man, Goog is just handin out shit sandwiches to all the webmasters with that bullshit PR penalty and now the link bomb penalty, plus the crap that is going on with Adsense. I don’t get why we still deal with them!

Hey man! The thing is G does not want you to get lots of links with the same anchor text and I’ve seen this penalty example too often. I think it might also depend on how you’re big and old. New small sites tend to be penalized with less number of “rapid” backlinks easily.

To Austin Overton – dude, we still have to deal with G coz there are so many black seos trying to trick big G. It’s all about quality serps and if G starts taking into consideration all this spam we flush on it – we will have no reason to use it.

I hate Google penalies… I hope I dont get it on my sites… but anyway I think I got one penalty for site where I had few TLA links to sell.

Ah good old manual manipulation by the monkeys at Google. They love to feed the blogging community with this fodder, just to keep people scared and under their thumb.

I was bitch-slapped by Google because of my AdSense implementation. And there are still thousands of websites out there who breach the AdSense policies each and every day, yet nothing ever happens to them. My website was very popular, and either someone jealous told Google about my AdSense ads or they just happened to notice it.

Maybe its better to rank well in Y! and MSN, which will bring fewer visitors, but those few (especially the ones coming from MSN) are more likely to click on an ad. And yes, depending on a single company for high traffic sucks. It is better to have 20,000 backlinks or even hundreds of thousands and even if Google removes your site from their index it doesn’t matter any more because you are already well-known and established. And that can be used as a leverage point to get back into their search index, because it just makes them look bad.

ack weaksauce

I dont think its e ridiculous that they can do that to results that are supposed to be accurate. I think the Job of SEO consultant would be difficult just for the fact that is only based on principles and googles pretty much decides the final straw.

I think it is ridiculous*

In your buyblogcomments case, I don’t think the reason is that links were built up too fast. No one can control natural links coming from a buzz. It might be something else. Manual slap triggered by something else..

I dont know anything else that would set it off. The site is fairly new but I have sites with 10 backlinks that would rank for its own name like “buyblogcomments”.

What else could it be?

I believe hehe, happened to me to

I agree Jon that, even though PR is useless, a lot of advertisers still take it into consideration so that neglecting it is impossible.

Alan Johnson

Sad but true.

It’s funny how a new web site can do well, build nice links, and all of a sudden drop like a stone. I watched the page rank go up an a lot of my web sites, but my blog (a sub page of my site) lost it’s PR even though I’ve been getting nice links. Hasn’t hurt my SERPs at all though.

At least you’re still on top of “buy blog comments” on Yahoo and MSN. I would guess as well that your site was hand edited.

I think that was enough negative feedback through the blogs and that matt cutts or another google/blogger gave you a manual hit? Thats what I was thinking?

Went from PR 5 to PR 0 and from 1k a day from google to about 200…WOOF

Seen this ‘biuilding links too fast’ penalty myself after adding probably over 100 links to one of my sites in a short time period. PR went to 0 and the domain doesn’t rank for its own name.

These penalties suck. Google has too many of them.

It has no sense at all

I think that google is too exigent when it comes to backlinks.