penalty: Matt Cutts of Google Penalizing Real Estate Websites - Part 3 - 07/07/07 05:10 AM
I wrote a blog post recently about being penalized by Google for having state pages with excessive reciprocal links with other Realtors.  You can read more about it here: part 1 & part 2.
The good news is that I came out of the penalty box today and looks as though I came back where I left off.  I rank # 1 in Google for "Sarasota real estate" and bunch of other phrases.  The 60 day mark is July 9th as I was penalized May 9th.
Be careful with the useless reciprocal linking with each other. Matt Cutts of Google is very clear … (12 comments)

penalty: Matt Cutts of Google Penalizing Real Estate Websites - Part 1 - 06/21/07 11:11 PM
Executive summary of this post:
Google gives more weight to websites that have good inbound links However, Google does not like link schemes designed to increase a site's ranking - reciprocal linking with hundreds of Realtors across the country Matt Cutts heads up the Google web spam team and enforces the Google webmaster guidelines Matt Cutts has mentioned in the past that he does not like the excessive reciprocal linking that Realtors engage in to pump up their results. I have a website focusing on real estate in Sarasota, Florida Advanced Access (AA) is a very large Realtor website provider AA hired Greg Boser, … (53 comments)