I was extremely happy to learn that one of the biggest SEO FRAUDS of all time finally got what he deserved.  I was banned from Real Estate Webmasters years ago for calling out the owner, Morgan Carry, that his SEO practices were unethical, and sometimes borderlining blackhat.  Finally being validated on that assessment feels damn good.

If you do a search for "Real Estate Webmasters", you'll see that the site has been dropped from number 1 to number 40.   Sitting #1 is a blog post by Greg Boser discussing this issue in further detail.  He even points out an email sent out by the REW staff that is clearly an unethical linking scheme.   REW members started noticing their blogs were "disappearing" from Google and going to 0 pagerank on the 24th.

If you link to REW or any of their clients who link to it, I'd advise you removing that link... or at least add a rel="nofollow" like I did above.  Google doesn't like sites that link to "bad neighborhoods" and Real Estate Webmasters and the Realtors who particpated in their lame-brained schemes, definitely fall into that category.

 
Posted by David Kyle, Charlotte SEO on 01/28/2008 07:40 PM   Comments (4)   seo, google, penalty, rew, morgan, carry  
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