Silent_Bob - 2:48 pm on May 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

JimLahey - 100% correct on those symptoms. Homepage at number 2 for

site:mysitename.com
site:www.mysitename.com

On:

mysitename
"www.mysitename.com"
"mysitename.com"
"mysitename"

- we are at the bottom of the first page(but there's very few sites that would use our domain name in their text, so this is a very poor position). Even a site called www.mysitenam.com (they missed one letter) ranks higher than us and its a blatant one page spam site with just adwords on it, solely designed to catch people who mistype trying to get to our site. Surely thats the definition of the kind of crappy site that google wants to filter out, not legitimate sites like ours.

Our site is virtually the same situation as da95649
and hollywood. We've actually been at the top of the serps for a long time, so it feels almost like google has knocked us down to give our competitors a chance for a while.

I dont think its a penalty. I think its a google glitch that needs fixing. Whilst its not really affecting us too badly at the moment, I'm hoping its not going to be a longterm issue.