DISQUS

DazzlinDonna · 1 year ago

And I'm very happy to have been a small part of you getting your problems solved, Robin. Woot!

Christian · 1 year ago

I'm an outsider on this a bit...

but you said, "1) If you have text links - wipe them out of sight. Better yet to kill them completely."

Are you saying that any site I link to out of the goodness of my own heart should be be removed? Has it gotten this bad?

What if it's a banner/button? Is that any different than a text link in the end (anchor text not withstanding)?

Acupuncture · 1 year ago

I was directed here from another post on a site I read often. The poster had a 1 year lump from google because of a paid add on his site.

I find this all rather hypocritical on google's part. How do they make all their money? Advertising? And they pay people to put those adds on their site, but we can't do it ourselves?

It seems google has become MS in the world of search engines and will slap anyone that tries to make income the same way they do. Sounds like we all should be using YAHOO!! ;)

I understand google's desire to give the user good content but they allow tons of robot produced sites to still get SERPs. They seem very good at finding what they want but getting rid of these sites that have no content, lots of adsense, and links directing you to where you really want to go flurish. . .

Meritt · 1 year ago

I love to blog on my 'coffee' site, and I love having my 'recipe' website and my 'budget' website - and to be able to make money on it is a Godsend since I left the career world and I'm a full time Mom now.

However, I'm frustrated as can be at the Google smack down. Why? Because I signed up with Google ads in 2004 (?) and it took 4 years (YEARS) to reach the $100 payout. In the same breath, let me add that I can make $8,000 a year with other companies.

Of course I'd love my page rank back... But it's a catch-22 situation for me. Google owns the page rank world and advertisers want a high page rank in order to pay decently for posts, yet Google smacked my page rank because of those said-posts.

Vicious Circle. And yes I want my page rank back... so I can get high paying advertisers. I may get the SAME TRAFFIC as a PR 4 or 5 site but advertisers see a zero and "assume" it's really a zero site when it's not.

Sigh.

jp50 · 9 months ago

I can't remember how I got here on Sunday morning but it was defitetevely my lucky day.I have a website that was penalized by Google with all its pages down to a round Zero PR and ,believe me,I've been struggling for about 1 year without success until now.I read this article and follow all the advice,I cleared entirely the site's pages from all the paid links and even from links that might have been mistaken for paid,then,I wrote a reconsideration letter from my Google account and,voila',miracles happen,today wednesday 4th march after only 3 days my website page rank is back thoroughly on every page.
Thank you

RobinGood · 9 months ago

Jp50,
I am so very happy to hear this!

Cheers to you!


Robin