penalty: REW got Whacked
- 01/27/08 03:00 AM
I am a little bit late to the party but it looks like REW has been struck with some sort of Google Penalty. A few people at REW noticed that site was not ranking for some terms that they did well on previously and even lost rankings on their own name. Currently their forum ranks first for the term Real Estate Webmasters but not the main page. Under it are a few blogs discussing the issue of REW losing rankings. Morgan wrote a blog post discussing it here. A couple of other bloggers wrote about it as well but they delve … (7 comments)
penalty: Squidoo Spanked by Google
- 07/12/07 02:27 AM
It looks like the infiltration of spammers at Squidoo has caught up with them. I read a post at Search Engine Land discussing Jason Calacanis efforts to out Squidoo as a source for SPAM. It appears that his efforts worked and Squidoo was hit with a penalty. They started to lose rankings and it looks like their lenses are no longer passing any PR. I just received an email from Squidoo discussing this issue and how they are going to combat it. Hopefully that can work the issue out because IMO it is a neat service. Unfortunately the way it worked … (13 comments)
I am a little bit late to the party but it looks like REW has been struck with some sort of Google Penalty. A few people at REW noticed that site was not ranking for some terms that they did well on previously and even lost rankings on their own name. Currently their forum ranks first for the term Real Estate Webmasters but not the main page. Under it are a few blogs discussing the issue of REW losing rankings. Morgan wrote a blog post discussing it here. A couple of other bloggers wrote about it as well but they delve … (7 comments)
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