One of my sites, a PR3, was hacked recently and I didn't find out until Google had marked it as compromised in the SERPS. Someone stole my FTP password and used my site to host hundreds of backlinks.
I wish I had a lesson to give but the only one I can think of is don't use a cheap web host...
One thing I am seeing them do is linguistic ranking shifts due to how they are deciding what people are really looking for. I know an ecommerce site that held #1 for 7+ years for one of its primary keywords and all of a sudden it dropped to #3. The two sites that suddenly appeared in #1 and #2...
Thanks for sharing this stuff. I only just joined hoping to find white hat insights, never expecting to find this depth of information.
What about factoring in domain age? Ideally you would factor in active site age but how would you get that information accurately beyond extracting it from...
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