Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google penalty'

Google Basically Admits to Minus 60 Penalty

Remember when I reported that we saw Google Sitelinks in position 60? I said then that it seems Google is admitting to the minus 60 penalty: What I do find very interesting is that Googler, JohnMu, tells the webmaster to...

Google Sitelinks in Position 60?

A Google Groups thread has discussion about one webmaster that sees Sitelinks for his site in position 60. The search is for vacation realty and in the 60th position. While, I do not see the Sitelinks at that position, the...

How To Penalize Your Competitor's Site in Google

Juicy title, isn't it? Well, that is the topic of discussion at a WebmasterWorld. A senior member decided to post some generic, not specific examples, ways to hurt a website's Google rankings. Here are some of the methods you can...

Google's Matt Cutts Replies to -60 Penalty Thread at Google

A Google Groups thread on the -60 penalty at Google (there are so many of these now, -6, -10, -250, etc) now has several responses from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt replies specifically to the nature of the posters site...

Google Reverses Number 6 Penalty?

In late December, we reported about a possible Position 6 Google Penalty. What that meant was that many people noticed their number one or two rankings all of a sudden dropped to position number 6. Google's Matt Cutts denied such...

The Position 6 Google Penalty?

WebmasterWorld administrator, tedster, has compiled the feedback of the December 2007 Google SERP Changes thread, which we covered earlier in a new WebmasterWorld thread. In this thread, he says there is a pattern of reports he has been noticing where...

More Fake German Google Penalty Emails Go Out

A new WebmasterWorld thread has new reports of German webmasters receiving fake emails from Google that their site has been penalized. Just a reminder, we covered this news in the past and that these are fake. Google said they would...

Drop 30 Points in Google? Meet The "Minus Thirty" Penalty?

This penalty, that penalty, this filter, that filter - we now have a new one named the "-30 Penalty." But this one I think may have some substance. A WebmasterWorld thread has a lot of discussion on it, 6 pages,...


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