Hey Guys,
I am starting to notice huge changes in the serps in various (mostly affiliate markets).
People doing nuke, scrapebox, srummer, and other auto-linking schemes seem to be getting slapped, but I have no hard data on how many, and how much.
Some people are fine - perhaps they use these tools differently or have older sites with a stronger link profile that can handle more spam pages linking to them. But some others are getting hit.
So let's post here if you have a site that's lost some ranking and what linking you were doing and we can (however anecdotely) at least see if we can see some recurring patterns. If everyone says they got slapped and they were doing X, then we can start to make some educated guesses that X may not work anymore (or is at least risky) and we can start detecting trends, and looking further into what's going on.
I am starting to notice huge changes in the serps in various (mostly affiliate markets).
People doing nuke, scrapebox, srummer, and other auto-linking schemes seem to be getting slapped, but I have no hard data on how many, and how much.
Some people are fine - perhaps they use these tools differently or have older sites with a stronger link profile that can handle more spam pages linking to them. But some others are getting hit.
So let's post here if you have a site that's lost some ranking and what linking you were doing and we can (however anecdotely) at least see if we can see some recurring patterns. If everyone says they got slapped and they were doing X, then we can start to make some educated guesses that X may not work anymore (or is at least risky) and we can start detecting trends, and looking further into what's going on.