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I have a site with (currently) more then 6000 backlinks, a year or what ago it had a pr7 (for a month or so), but went down to pr6.
I has a picture gallery, a forum and a blog.
I didn't pay much attention to the site, and it build up a lot of spam comments (in the gallery). I also had DP Co-op links on it...
After my brother (his pic is in the gallery) kindly reported the spam I removed those comments and looked at rankings and pr of the site. I also removed the DP Co-op.
I then saw that the visible pr on (only) some pages had gone to zero.
And.. the search term where I used to rank high for was taken by a proxy site, listing my content. Even if one searches for my family name, which is the domain name, the proxy site shows up.
This proxy site lists about 7000 pages from other sites in Google.
The proxy site doesn't seem to do any 302's at the moment.
I blocked the ip addresses belonging to the proxy site, filed spam reports, added a sitemap to my site and did a reinclusion request telling about removal of the porn spam and DP co-op.
Until now no luck.
The current pr update seems to zero my pr for most pages (but not all) on my site.
I wonder, if this proxy site is doing this on purpose, (looks like they have (had) some form of 302 in effect at a certain point)
Or maybe there is a nasty "competitor" using a hole in both the proxy and Google (other sites from me are also listed in the proxy / Google, but with little effect)
I am lost....
[edited by: tedster at 3:23 am (utc) on Sep. 30, 2006]
I've gone through the usual - Google Report, 403 the offending IPs, contact the proxy website.
Just wondering what people think is causing this? I'm thinking some black-hat competitor has been attacking our website.
