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Google Penalty Hits eBay’s Bottom Line, May Cost Up To $200 Million In Revenue
Earlier this year, eBay was hit with a search penalty by Google. The loss of traffic resulting from that has been noticeable enough that eBay...
Google’s Matt Cutts: MetaFilter Hit By Previously Undisclosed Algorithm Filter
Last month, MetaFilter, a news and discussion site from back in the old days, told us they got hit by a Google penalty years ago that had a...
Google Takes Action On Seven Link Networks In Japan
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter this morning that Google has “taken action” on seven different...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Determining If Your Site Ranking Is Result Of A Penalty Is “Tricky”
Today’s video from Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts tackles the question, “How can you tell if your site is suffering from...
Google Slaps Greek Sites With Penalties
It appears that Google has taken action on spammers, potentially link spammers, in Greece recently. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search...
Google’s Matt Cutts Implies MyBlogGuest Publishers Will Receive Penalties
Google has taken action on a large guest blog network that we believe is MyBlogGuest.com. In fact, the owner of MyBlogGuest.com, Ann Smarty...
Manual Spam Action Revoked! A Case Study
Checklists of how to get out of a Google penalty abound. Five things you should do, five things you shouldn’t do, etc. But the number one...
Hiding From That Google Penalty? It May Find You At Your New Home
Did you know that even if you try to run away from your Google penalty, it might end up finding you anyway? In a recent Google Webmaster...
Penalized & Sad: When To Abandon The Sinking SEO Ship
Sometimes the captain can’t afford to go down with the ship, no matter the temptation or emotional investment. Every few weeks, I receive...
Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums
The latest large brand to be hit with a user-generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large US wireless communications...
Google: That Mozilla Penalty Only Impacted One Page Out Of 22 Million
We reported yesterday that Google penalized Mozilla over user generated content. Today, we learn that it was a really, really small penalty that...
Google Penalized One Article On BBC’s Web Site
Google did end commenting on why the BBC received an unnatural link notification despite offering us a “no comment” on our story...
Google Sends BBC News A Manual Link Penalty Notification
Google has sent the world’s largest broadcast news organization, BBC News, an unnatural link notification last Saturday. The Search Engine...
Did Google Just Penalize Another Link Network? SAPE Links
Unconfirmed reports are surfacing throughout the SEO community that Google has penalized yet another link network. The rumors within the...
Google Demotes The Pirate Bay UK Search Ranking
TorrentFreak is reporting that Google is demoting the rank of the search result for the phrase “Pirate Bay”, the well-known...
Google’s Cutts: We Don’t Ban Sites Critical Of Google, But Here Is Why We Do Penalize Sites…
In the latest video from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, he addresses Google’s standards for manually removing spam from...
After Penalizing Interflora & UK Newspapers, Google Warns Against Advertorials
After penalizing Interflora and UK newspapers, Google has issued a stern warning that selling links on sites that pass PageRank can lead to a...
Google Says No Comment On Why Interflora Was Penalized
The popular UK flower website Interflora seems to have been penalized in Google. They no longer rank for their key terms, such as [flowers],...