ncgimaker - 10:35 am on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

Well we have 7 hits from Google over the weekend down from 3000-5000. Yahoo is good and steady and on topic, msn search hits are rising.

Searches on our products and we don't show up on any of them. Search on our name, and we get mostly link pages to us. This is a 2.5 year old site, large number >3000 pages, diverse phrases but one group of products, different structures within the pages, all hand written, and all our pages still seems to be indexed and can be pulled up on a site search.

I think they have a new spam penalty system and its making a lot of false positives, the searches on major key phrases are a little cleaner of spam than normal.

The filter must be site wide, its affecting all of our pages. I don't think its an inbound link filter, our inbound links are real and solid and with a wide range of many different sites. (We've avoided link exchanging with link farms), DMOZ & Yahoo links.

I think its false positives in that spam filter flagging our site, because theres nothing particularly spammy about our site. Too many links off the front page, a language redirect perhaps? Who knows what triggers it.

In a search with 10000+ good results, it doesn't matter if they get 3000 false spam positives because there are still plenty of other good sites to fill the result with. It causes more problems in obscure product searches where there are only one or two suppliers.
Sure its bad if its your site in the 3000.