Google grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I very much doubt that google counts sigs in posts on a message board as belonging to the message board per se.

I have been saying for some time that indiscriminate linking is going to be a problem…. and if that is not the case here yet, it’s still a very bad idea.

Thanks Webber!

i forgot to remove links to my banned site….

Sooo… even 25 links linking out in the footer wouldn’t hurt?

(except those to banned sites?)

You really can’t have too many backlinks. Depending on where the backlinks were coming from, they may have been de-valued. What can hurt your site the most is linking out to banned sites and having duplicate content, both big no-no’s to Google.

As for your question on having a footer link here at CAP repeated 800+ times…that won’t cause any issues with Google. They pretty much look at the 800 or so links and count it as 1 link.

Exactly the same thing happened a week ago to my non-gambling related site. I have not changed it, it is still indexed, not in the supplemental. Just a month ago the site finally got out of the sandbox, started to get 70% of the total traffic from Google. I was so happy about that, but the traffic from Google stopped as unexpextedly and suddenly as it appeared. Can’t understand what it was about? The sandbox does not let it go without a struggle?…Time will tell.

Google is doing some major ungrades, mainly with their Data Centers. Do not get too worried Elgoog I am confident this is only temporary. Some of my pages de-indexed only to pop right back up. Some days I have a PR assigned to every page, today my PR is only assigned to my index page. For me this has been going on for at least 4 months and is getting a little annoying.

Another thing Google is mopping up spam sites. Implementing many new algo’s, filters etc… One very prominent web-site who is a CAP member I noted has been thrashed by Google. Once a PR6 site degraded to a PR2. Probably because of the sites he was cross linking with vanished. I am not a PR fan but serps do matter and having pages removed from google gives less weight to your site, therefore a drop in serps would follow.

Bare in mind this is only speculation I and admitt my expertise in this area is limited. But if you are following the Google’s Guide for webmasters I am confident you will be okay.

hang in there brother!

greek39

no, its not the supplemental disease……

elgoog is de-indexed completely (not the one in my sig)

since today i lost rankings on 15 other sites/subdomains
still indexed, but nowhere to be found

Are you falling in the supplementary index?

For unknowledge reasons sites with no duplicate content or spam tricks , are suffering that problem.

Surgical assistant needed….

What can hurt your site the most is linking out to banned sites and having duplicate content, both big no-no’s to Google.

Now this is quite wrong – linking to banned websites will not ban your website – look at CAP for example – half of the people’s sigs are banned websites, and CAP is doing just fine. And there are quite a few websites in Google’s top 20 which have 10+ HOME PAGE links to banned websites – and they have been doing well for a long time.