Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
My site has been listed in google for 4 years. My site runs 2 topics, 2 very different topics. Its not a scraper site, its all original content and I've never entered into reciprocal link exchanges.
As of today Google has removed all the pages from where I actually make any money, every single one of them. All have a PR of 0.
Just when I thought I was safe i've been deleted. My income is now 0. Traffic is almost all gone.
Original content / no bad links / been listed for years. I give up.
I'm guessing the two very different topics is what has killed my site.
Deester
Anyway, bottom line is you shouldn't rely on one source of incoming traffic (Google in this case). Put more time in getting traffic from other sources. Both you and I learned this the hard way, in my case I lost 50% of income for entire month, I'm back at 75% earnings and slowly climbing.
If I do a site on model railroading and also talk about logging or mining or boilers or a ton of other things that the site would be nailed by Google.
Google might be a bit confused because it has the mental age of a 2 year old but it wouldn't nail a site just for that.
Bottom line is, nobody understands Google. Nobody knows what stunt next they'll pull. One day you're on top, next day you're being punished. A lot of people have and understanding of what's going on, yet no one can predict future.
Stick to building great sites with usefull and unique content, don't rely on one search engine as your only source of visitors and you'll do just fine.
Anyway, bottom line is you shouldn't rely on one source of incoming traffic (Google in this case). Put more time in getting traffic from other sources. Both you and I learned this the hard way, in my case I lost 50% of income for entire month, I'm back at 75% earnings and slowly climbing.
Yep, I can't agree more. We had a very good thing going and I was silly not to pursue other traffic apart form the mighty G.
Thankfully, I have a few SEO clients who should keep me going, at least I won't starve just yet!
I'm starting to think that their intention is to eliminate any page that makes money through affiliate advertising, regardless of what else is available on the site.
Thats exactly it. Google removed all the pages which were associated with affiliate programmes. It wasn't a gradual thing either, i couldnt believe it as I looked at the SERP's yesterday.
No wonder we have so many spammers and people on the dark side, it seems easier than trying to run a legitimite original content site.
All my competitors with the top affiliate programs are still ranking high.
Bek.
Nope,All my competitors with the top affiliate programs are still ranking high.
Bek.
It's only a matter of time!
That's what G would love to see. But to be honest I don't see (spammy) aff-sites will be gone any time soon. There has always been SPAM and it won't be gone in the near future unless all Spammers retire, which is very unlikely. ;)
