photonstudios - 10:13 pm on Oct 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

One of my sites has also been hit by google, 80% of google traffic has been dropped. This site had links to my other two sites at the bottom of the page, on every page. Also, I had links from the other two site to this site that has been hit. This would be explained by the new "google has been penalizing sites for selling links" theory right?

Well then, how would you explain that a set of 6 sites which are all interlinked at the bottom of the page among each other and have similar content on all the pages, except the keywords, (I'm using these sites for testing purposes ;) )have not been affected at all? I own all these 6 sites too and watching google traffic closely, it has remained the same, while one of my sites has been hit hard.

Also, I checked the dates of the cached pages on the site that has been hit hard and the other 6 sites. Site that has been hit hard seems to have much older cached dating back to August, while the other 6 sites have newer cache, September 20-30.

Anyone got any ideas?