cmarket - 7:42 pm on Nov 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

Got a site, surprise, surprise.... Been consistently ranking page 1 or top 5 in UK financial sector.

Saw a competitor, several months back, with hundreds of links from student union sites and was in fact #1 for the search 'loans' imagine how much money they were making......

I thought cooooOOOol, and asked a financial blog site for some links, before I'd paid, the links were up, sitewide.

Then I read an article about the bad practice of link buying... I very quickly made sure all the links were removed again.

Then.... Google finally finds all these incoming links! (after they'd been removed!) My ranking however, was unaffected.

It wasn't until Google picked up on the fact that the links had been removed that my rankings were affected.

Now down to page 4 in some cases and not listed for some other searches.

I'm only trying to obey the rules and I've been penalized for not being able to predict the future....

Written to G. See what happens...

Any other suggestions..?

Just gonna keep on marketing....!