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There are a lot of sites that try to make money off of people's personal information. Even if you've got an unlisted number and keep your name off of networking sites you can find yourself on different websites that use public records. And some of them won't take your name off for any amount of...

Yeah, it's hard to believe how awful Google can be, in 2012, at figuring out where content originated. 1. Gather your proof, the more the better. 2. Contact the site owner and tell them that they don't have your permission to use your content and they need to take it down immediately. Do not...

The problem is that blackhat is now mainstream. Webmasters who use blackhat techniques have no right to complain when their sites go down and generally didn't years ago but the commercialization of these ranking methods have brought a slew of idiots into the game. These people refuse to take...

It's not going to help you. It's not there to help you. All you're going to do is divulge the details of your activities, which Google will use to fight "webspam" and when nothing changes on your end you will be annoyed at how 'useless' this tool is.

Anyone who thinks that Google is handing you a tool to help you rank or recover your sites is extremely naive. Google could have taken the burden off the webmaster (that they created) and just rolled back the negative link portion of their algo -- but they're pleased with it and are now...

He wants to join them, not kill the method. It's not smart to inform the enemy - snitching only makes your own job harder in the long run. What are you doing on a black hat forum?

I have an EMD site that was #3 move to #2. But it's a real EMD, it doesn't have any extra words in addition to the keywords in the domain name. It's a fairly thin site - about 5 pages.

Believe it or not, those types of links seem to pass manual reviews even though they look patently obvious to us (though the lighter colored text in your example is really pushing it). I've come to this conclusion after watching competitors in highly policed markets live a long time on links...

I'm going to say that #2 is not exactly reliable. The site I described in my earlier post has the homepage come up first using a site:domain.com search and it definitely has a penalty. It even comes up first with a straight domain.com search.

There seems to be different grades of penalty but if you want to know if you're screwed just type in your site name and see if it ranks anywhere in the top 10. If it's even mildly unique it should. So if your domain is primatreadmills.com and you've done any decent linking to your site you...

Don't count on Google to know who's first. I've seen damage to older sites by completely brand new domains within days. It makes no sense but it is what it is. And if you're not completely snow white, I wouldn't invite Google to mediate. The point is to stop them from serving your content in...

I'm surprised at the lack of response to this thread myself. That quote about punishing sites that may charge for link removal is way over the line. And the presumption of guilt because a site owner dares to put monetary value their time should be alarming. I can only imagine the volume of...

Of course you're not crazy, you're just lucid. It's been surreal to watch how much power has been willingly given to Google to dictate the way the entire Internet works. It started with the introduction and mass adoption of nofollow. Naive webmasters thought it would stop comment spam and it...

I may be missing it but I can't seem to find a way to export failed submissions. I would like to have a list of everything that was unable to be posted to, specifically in the case of imported/custom url lists. Maybe even sort/separate export of failed urls by reason (ie. "no engine matches" or...

Tip: When making a thread to request help, phrase it in question form or make it clear that you're in need. This topic title makes it look like you have tips, which is clearly far from the case.