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I went too fast! (I think)

by mookinman
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You might remember my post last week asking the forum if I was doing too much too quickly (building too many backlinks, blogs, lenses etc pointing to my main site), as I didn't want to get penalized by the almighty Google.

Well last night, and today, I've googled my url (the stag do site in my sig) only to find it's disappeared off Google. The hen night site is still there (I created both the same day, and a similar amount of backlinking has taken place for both) but no sign of the stag night site.

Thing is, I was careful and didn't do any of the following...
- Posting on link directories
- Spamming of any kind
- Use duplicate content on my site

I probably only created 4-5 links per day on blogs, lenses etc, not 1000's... My plan is/was to maintain this every day - I'll still continue... my site will probably re-appear on Google one day.... has anybody else out there experienced this? Or can anybody advise me about why this has happened?

Thanks for any clues/help you can offer, guys!
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  • Profile picture of the author Lesley Huntley
    I had the same sort fo thing happen to me last week, and I posted a thread too. Some of this may help you too:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...mediately.html

    My sites reappeared within a few days, which was an almighty relief. I've had it happen to every site I've been creating in the past few days.

    Hang in there. I think it will return very soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author mookinman
    Hooray my site is back on Google again! I think I understand it now! Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    your just experiencing the sudden Google pop

    if you did nothing wrong they will always come back this is common

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    • Profile picture of the author Lindsay Brynn
      yes. this happened to me too a couple times. But on another site all of a sudden I went from page 2 to like page 15 and I'm still down there. It kind of sucks but I guess I'll just have to work my way back up again.
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  • Profile picture of the author SpotOn
    thats like joining facebook and adding 50 friends in 10 minutes. The system will red flag you.
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  • Profile picture of the author KevL
    Doing the kind of back-linking you're doing is completely natural in terms of numbers, you would have to create quite a serious spike of activity to cause a problem, in my personal experience anyway. I wouldn't worry in the slightest that you're doing too much.

    I have one client who got nearly 20,000 backlinks in 3 months (this was before they were my client!) as far as I can see they have been penalized slightly in terms of page rank, and they're finding it difficult to compete with sites which have a much smaller number of links - so it does seem to have hindered them to some degree, BUT it's not got them de-indexed.

    In fact I've never seen a site de-indexed from google without very obvious cause, apart from the temporary stuff that quite a lot of people are noticing at the moment. It's common to get a drop in ranking without having any idea why, that's just part of the fun of SEO, it keeps you on your toes
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