Ive a (well a few) doms that got hit from Nov 2003 onwards by Google.
A bit of background - all were doing extremely well in the serps.
Interlinked domains (not 100% but general reciprocal and some oneway) with (unfortunately pretty much identical anchor text) and also all linking to page x for example was done FROM a page which was about the same target keyword as page x.
So a "gay fuck" page would link to another "gay fuck" page.
Around that time (nov 03) - and for the following months, my pages dropped site by site into oblivion over a few more "dances" as they were known then.
So starting with around 40 domains all in the top 5 for their words, by the end of Nov 03 there were only 30, then by say march 04 there were only 20, then by then end of 04 - I had no domains left in the top 1000 results from this group.
No sites doing interlinking were on the same IP.
All sites are affiliate sites
No sites have gone to PR0
All sites are still indexed
Does this sound familiar to anyone - maybe happened to them too more recently or around the same time?
If so - anyone know a fucking fix for this - as its pissed me off trying to sort it out.
Thing is they do well in MSN and unless I can find a guaranteed solution for the google problem and get them back, Im worried about changing them as Ill lose MSN too.
It is a grim situation.
A bit of background - all were doing extremely well in the serps.
Interlinked domains (not 100% but general reciprocal and some oneway) with (unfortunately pretty much identical anchor text) and also all linking to page x for example was done FROM a page which was about the same target keyword as page x.
So a "gay fuck" page would link to another "gay fuck" page.
Around that time (nov 03) - and for the following months, my pages dropped site by site into oblivion over a few more "dances" as they were known then.
So starting with around 40 domains all in the top 5 for their words, by the end of Nov 03 there were only 30, then by say march 04 there were only 20, then by then end of 04 - I had no domains left in the top 1000 results from this group.
No sites doing interlinking were on the same IP.
All sites are affiliate sites
No sites have gone to PR0
All sites are still indexed
Does this sound familiar to anyone - maybe happened to them too more recently or around the same time?
If so - anyone know a fucking fix for this - as its pissed me off trying to sort it out.
Thing is they do well in MSN and unless I can find a guaranteed solution for the google problem and get them back, Im worried about changing them as Ill lose MSN too.
It is a grim situation.
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