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mmcfadden · 12-17-2009, 03:15 PM

Since June of this year a website of mine was off the search engines. Couldn't find it unless I went to omitted results for the search terms and then it was in the 900's. It's called a -950 penalty. I resubmitted 3 times over the months and many changes and was able to get it into the 600's... that was it.

There are a few reasons for this but here is mine.

On my splash page which never had much relevant information I had a scroll box with deep text. The text was BS disclaimer type verbage but apparently google recently has issued penalties for this because their search engines are not reading text within scroll boxes. Apparently the algorithm penalizes for this due to the possibility the site is attempting to hide text.

I have done so many small and large changes to the site over the past six months and on the 11th of this month made the change to the splash page and eliminated the scroll box.

My site moved over 600 spots to #1 again.

I hope this may help some people out.

12-17-2009, 03:15 PM
mmcfadden So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: philly Posts: 5,099	I wanted to share how I got off a google penalty Since June of this year a website of mine was off the search engines. Couldn't find it unless I went to omitted results for the search terms and then it was in the 900's. It's called a -950 penalty. I resubmitted 3 times over the months and many changes and was able to get it into the 600's... that was it. There are a few reasons for this but here is mine. On my splash page which never had much relevant information I had a scroll box with deep text. The text was BS disclaimer type verbage but apparently google recently has issued penalties for this because their search engines are not reading text within scroll boxes. Apparently the algorithm penalizes for this due to the possibility the site is attempting to hide text. I have done so many small and large changes to the site over the past six months and on the 11th of this month made the change to the splash page and eliminated the scroll box. My site moved over 600 spots to #1 again. I hope this may help some people out.