JCPenny gets slapped by google for blackhat seo...lol

Aspired

12 years ago

This shows that no one is immune to Google.

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Ryan Parker

12 years ago

Isn't this old news?

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Alexander K 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ryan Parker

Isn't this old news?

It isn't old if it's the first time you are hearing about it.
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- CDarklock 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alexander K
  
  It isn't old if it's the first time you are hearing about it.
  
  Yes it is. What the hell do you think "old" means? It doesn't mean "stuff you already know."
  
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  Earnie Boyd 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  Yes it is. What the hell do you think "old" means? It doesn't mean "stuff you already know."
  
  Old - something with age, e.g.: A baby is 1 day old.
  stuff you already know - I don't have a definition of "stuff you already know" only you know what you know.
  
  News - stuff I didn't know even though it is old. History is good for creating lessons of life.
  
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  cashp0wer 12 years ago
  
  I remember reading about this last year and thinking that Google can get to anyone they want and do just about anything they want. It actually sort of scared me for a second there. I got over it pretty quickly though.
  
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  CDarklock 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Earnie Boyd
  
  News - stuff I didn't know even though it is old. History is good for creating lessons of life.
  
  He didn't say it was still news. He said it was not old. These are, oddly enough, not the same thing.
  
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Tina Golden

12 years ago

Are you just learning of this? I believe this came out in February of last year.

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MoneyMagnetMagnate 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Tina Golden

Are you just learning of this? I believe this came out in February of last year.

Yeah, really...I was thinking maybe they hadn't learned to turn the other 'check' (:rolleyes
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Long Beach Nathan

12 years ago

Hey, that's weird. I was just reading an old thread on here about Overstock and JCPenny a few hours ago. Is this the same thing you're referring to? Odd coincidence!

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smithwhite

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Long Beach Nathan

Hey, that's weird. I was just reading an old thread on here about Overstock and JCPenny a few hours ago. Is this the same thing you're referring to? Odd coincidence!

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i am working for overstock.com, and overstock is still ranking in top3 for 100's of keywords

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kalens99

12 years ago

Of course nobody is immune to Google's b**** slap. Why would they be? JC Penney should have been smarter about what company they used to do their SEO. It is amazing how companies hire people to do SEO for them and don't have a clue about what they are doing or what they should be paying for. Some companies out where I live have paid hundreds of dollars a month because some SEO guy wanted to rank them for a keyword that got 0 search results a month. When they ranked on the front page they treated the guy (or in one case woman) like a god.

I understand they don't know IM. But isn't one of the first rule of any business to do your research and know what you are buying regardless? If I was hiring an accountant to look after my IM reveneues I wouldn't take everything the guy said at face value and make sure I knew what I was getting and what it was worth. Sheesh.

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salegurus

12 years ago

Definitely last years news.

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GeeWhiz1

12 years ago

Yeah, definitely old news but it should serve as a lesson to new comers that no one is except from bad SEO strategies.

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12 years ago

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JeremiahSay

12 years ago

Osama has been shot.. he's dead! You're telling us stuff that we'd already know..

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12 years ago

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JoshN 12 years ago

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Lol wow thats right, blast from the past. They continued with that advertising for years with the CDs, which were pretty expensive at that time.
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JasonGrimes

12 years ago

Don't be so hard on the OP, it may be old news to you but new for the beginners.

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EllesBelles

12 years ago

Cor this thread made me laugh. It probably shouldn't have, but it's been one of those days.

As for the old/news definitions above - that story is over a year old. So that would make it old by your standards, but also news because you don't know it...so "old news", then?

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Fraser SellHealth

12 years ago

pretty sure this happened last year bro , get with the times

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JayNine

12 years ago

Originally Posted by fbwealthsystem

JCPenny gets slapped by google for blackhat seo...lol

Apparently JCPenny hired a very good seo company and JCPenny started getting 1st place ranking on thousands of keywords on the top search engines...

Google saw this of course and punished JCPenny listings...

If they're using blackhat tricks that got their client banned, I'd hardly call them a good SEO company lol.

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davejug1

12 years ago

Old yes, but still relevant, especially in the post-panda world where it's easier to be spotted.

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Cataclysm1987

12 years ago

Funny, everyone is laughing at the OP but still posting, thus bumping the thread.

Maybe if you just ignored it, the thread would drop? Lol...

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erichammer

12 years ago

And in other news, President Kennedy was shot and killed today...

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by fbwealthsystem

JCPenny gets slapped by google for blackhat seo...lol

Apparently JCPenny hired a very good seo company and JCPenny started getting 1st place ranking on thousands of keywords on the top search engines...

Google saw this of course and punished JCPenny listings...

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retsek

12 years ago

JCPenny's ban lasted all of 90 days. They were back quickly ranking for their terms again.

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nik0

Banned 12 years ago

Did someone just bump a 1 year old thread?

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paulgl

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nik0

Did someone just bump a 1 year old thread?

No, just someone sniffing bicycle seats again.

Man you people gotta check the calendar and some facts.

JCP was not penalized. Read that twice if you must. They
were not penalized. They returned to where they naturally
would be. That's not a penalty. Besides, google had no idea
what JCP was up to until someone blabbed. They had no choice
but to put them back where they belonged and devalue the
links.

That aint news and it sure is old.

Now please check your calendars. This is March. 2012.

Paul

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lovboa

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

No, just someone sniffing bicycle seats again.

Man you people gotta check the calendar and some facts.

JCP was not penalized. Read that twice if you must. They
were not penalized. They returned to where they naturally
would be. That's not a penalty. Besides, google had no idea
what JCP was up to until someone blabbed. They had no choice
but to put them back where they belonged and devalue the
links.

That aint news and it sure is old.

Now please check your calendars. This is March. 2012.

Paul

It's 2012??!?!?

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nik0 Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by lovboa

It's 2012??!?!?

That's impossible, the world would be gone in 2012
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retsek

12 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

No, just someone sniffing bicycle seats again.

Man you people gotta check the calendar and some facts.

JCP was not penalized. Read that twice if you must. They
were not penalized. They returned to where they naturally
would be. That's not a penalty. Besides, google had no idea
what JCP was up to until someone blabbed. They had no choice
but to put them back where they belonged and devalue the
links.

That aint news and it sure is old.

Now please check your calendars. This is March. 2012.

Paul

What do you call it then if it wasn't a penalty.

They WERE penalized for 90 days in much the same way the Google's own Chrome page was recently penalized for exactly 60 days.

Are you still saying penalties don't exist?

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nik0 Banned 12 years ago

I dont think you can call it a penalty when they put you back where you were without these links.

Personally I see sandboxing or getting deindexed as a penalty.
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