Have you ever had a site penalized?
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fb3003
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- Aug 14, 2015
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is yours penalized? if so, interested to know what you did to get it penalized?
what happens when you search for site:yourdomain.com ? do you see your site in the number one position?
starcity83
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- Jun 30, 2011
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Yes, once I posted the names, locations, and phone numbers of virtually every restaurant in the USA on my restaurant review site. I had huge traffic for a few days. Then suddenly without warning Google mob did a manual action against my website and it never came back. I had to forget the plan and make a new website. The good thing about IM is there are always new ideas. Especially if you hang out on BHW Saturday nights.
KHer0
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- Mar 22, 2011
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Makes sense, google don't like competition. You were doing their job ^_^
@OP : None for me.. just the usual shuffle now and then but never panelized or had major change in rankings
nethead01
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No I have never had a site penalized, just curious how many people experienced this. I would love to see some examples because I've yet to see it.. what does it actually take, buy the wrong links your gone? I'm beginning to think it's mostly a myth
watsonovedades
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- Mar 10, 2011
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Never had
Matheus Moreira
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Lol
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Never had such experience!
TheVigilante
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Yes where I was working the guy had created profile links so had to delete those links to get the penalty removed
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Happened to my client sometimes. Penalties typically result in your website dropping in the SERPS, seeing less traffic, or even being completely de-indexed in extreme cases. It can take over weeks/months to solve it.
Starblazer
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My first site got a penalty. A competitor spammed it to death. I disavowed some links but nothing happened. I disavowed all links still nothing happened. I learned that Google employees are too lazy to manually check anything and most of them don't bother about what's happening in SERPs. I used this information to rank my parasites and made more money than what my site could make in its entire lifetime. Screw Google and live happily ever after.