TerrCan123 - 9:39 pm on Aug 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

I don't have a clue what happened, but if I had to guess it would be some new filter by google to look at duplicate "unrelated" sites as duplicate content. If in same sector or industry perhaps it is now considered duplicate content. They have a trillion pages in the index and weed out things all the time I imagine.

I remember reading they use things such as domain registration to gauge site credibility so this may not be far off that they look at Adsense accounts or anything else to check for networks. I have to say I looked up a local search for my area a few days ago and it came up with domains registered just for that purpose with obviously canned content. So the travel sector has some serious competition as if that wasn't already known. To register thousands of domains to do these things muct be an immense project only capable of by deep pockets and serious players. The little guy is slowly getting crushed out of the internet I think as the money has arrived and it is wiping us out.

[edited by: TerrCan123 at 9:40 pm (utc) on Aug. 22, 2008]