wow the number 1 site in my niche has been wipe off the face of the earth

[nest28]

The number 1 site in my niche was a page rank 4 with over 30,000 backlinks showing in yahoo site explorer. When checking my own rankings I discovered the entire first page of results were upside down, and the number site to beat was nowhere to be found, even after typing in the site exact web address there was nothing, strange though I thought I would be happy since that site was far harder to beat than the remaining competition but I kinda feel bad for the guy he had to be making at least 1,500 a month now down to nothing. On another note I can definitely see myself ranking well with that site out of the way.

[reloading]

I too would like to see a link to your competition to view their link profile.

I wonder if they got removed for purchasing links or spam tactics.

Lucky you thought! This should be highly motivational for you.

[nest28]

Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson

Could we get link to that website?

I would but that would reveal my niche, but like I said when typing in the exact web address the only thing that appears are these type of stat sites

XOM Website Reviews
Backlink Checker, Check Your Backlinks
SmartViper - domain worth analyzer, historical statistics. Knowledge Is Power
Plot IP - Your Source for Web Information

[nest28]

Originally Posted by reloading

I too would like to see a link to your competition to view their link profile.

I wonder if they got removed for purchasing links or spam tactics.

Lucky you thought! This should be highly motivational for you.

Yes out of those 30,000 links most were bought. It was easy to tell because all his links were on the home page of those site linking back.

[yukon]

All he has to do is buy a new domain, redirect the old domain at the new domain, passing the external backlinks to the new domain.

Assumes the old backlinks are still indexed.

Did you search the competition domain with site:domain.com ?

[nest28]

Originally Posted by yukon

All he has to do is buy a new domain, redirect the old domain at the new domain, passing the external backlinks to the new domain.

Assumes the old backlinks are still indexed.

Did you search the competition domain with site:domain.com ?

yes nothing but sites with info on the de-indexed site comes up

[johnnyflex]

if its not an EMD, im sure it will not reveal your site. I hope you can share to us the site so that we can analyze his backlinks.

[PandaPoacher]

I'm going to guess it's the new variation of Panda or the new system google is doing. A lot of sites are getting kicked back it seems.

[stephenwaldo]

That almost sounds like a manual review -50. If you search their specific domain and they're not anywhere on the first page you're virtually guaranteed that's a manual penalty as opposed to an algorithmic penalty.

Unless of course the guy just took the site down. But that seems very unlikely.

Panda hammer strikes again I suppose. Lucky for you, though.

[samual james]

it looks like JC penny case, google will ban you if they found any suspicious activity, beware of purchasing links