jpmon - 12:33 am on Apr 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hello to 31 club.

Perhaps it was told somewhere, but for the most competitive keywords I found my old days competitors around 30-40 together with my site.

Just been hit last week, so building new site seems like good idea - the only problem is duplicate content. I can put robots.txt to disable google bot, but what about all those copies of pages indexed somewhere in the net - now they will be more original, then pages in my new site!

Site had PR6 and ranked perfect since one year (#1s on many keywords). It is my private site and I'm positioning also 20 other sites - one of them got also penalized same time - the only common thing is, that I put some link-vault links on them lately. Second site was not yet doing well, because it was on #7 but was old and very honest site in every aspect. Had a lot of honest links (magazine publishers usually does) and almost natural PR5 - I just can not believe how google could penalize them. They had some stupid menu, that opened index page with POST (so toolbar could see only series of index.aspx - this could be the reason to ban:). They had some easy keywords where they ranked #1.
Being a very black hat (reading google guidelines not found any rule I did not broken) I do not feel much angry on this, may be will create two or three sites same time to have playsers ready to play the game.

In my opinion it is automatic behaviour, but based on very long analyze of the site, very costful in computations, so runs randomly and hits some of the speeders randomly. May be I had bad luck to have two sites banned same time - but having a dedicated person, that found who am I positioning and banning one - it is what I'll never believe.