Recent content by ganja420

No my sites are still in the same situation. I'm starting to get convinced my penalty is not Panda but a result of having too many similar websites selling the same product. I think they are rolling out a lot of different algorithm tweaks lately that some people are mistaking as Panda.

I also tried a reinclusion request with google for 1 site, but that may have been a mistake. Now instead of that site just having an automatic algorithmic penalty, it also seems to have a manual penalty as it is ranked page 9+ now. It may have been better to just fix everything and let the...

Well my whole network of sites got hit. So I've been trying different things on different sites. On one site I used robots.txt to block all pages that had affiliate product feed duplicate content. On another site I embedded product reviews between products on search pages. I will also be...

You should watch out for any search results pages or anything similar that produces a lot of duplicate content all on one page. Sites that broke up that duplicate content with embedded reviews seem to have escaped penalties.

Mark by what I'm reading, Google apparently does these panda update checks every 4-6 weeks. So if you have fixed the issues by the time the check happens, you should be able to recover. Then again, Google has admitted that affiliate based sites may need longer to regain trust with Google. For...

I recently got my google rankings slapped. So I'm digging deeper into any issues my sites might have. One of them is that my sites have lots of affiliate links throughout. My links do use php redirects in a folder that is blocked via robots.txt. Is this enough though? I've seen people...

Wow you are so ignorant. Matt Cutts himself talks about google penalties in his videos. And yes you can get penalized for being over aggressive with link building. Perhaps you should stick to talking what you actually know something about. The reason SEO isn't one big game of sabotage is...

hitch are your 2 websites related? I had a network of 12 related websites all get penalized to page 4+. So I am looking for answers too.

I had the same thing happen to my affiliate sites around August 2nd. I suspect it was due to using affiliate product feeds combined with lack of quality unique content. Also I might have also had problems with link velocity. This happened to my whole network of related sites. They're all...