WTF GOOGLE!

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Hey guys,
Not sure if it's google dance or my web site just got penalized or something, but for some reason my web site - Jobs in Medford Oregon, Online Classifieds | Rogue Valley Ads just dropped in rankings dramatically, I'm talking about 700+ position ...
I didn't create any backlinks for it for the past 2 month, basically I haven't touched it ... It was sitting in the top 5 for 2 main keywords, now I'm in 700+ ...

WTF?
#search engine optimization #google #wtf
  • When did this happen?

    Many people are sick of Google at the moment even though it is meant to be "our friend". They are screwing the search results and turning them upside down.
  • That happened to me, went to 700+ and stayed there for almost 3 months. I thought it was a Google dance at first, but hovering around the 700 mark is a dodgey place to be, I've never been in this position and it be a dance. Weird, annoying and depressing - but life must go on.
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    • Why do you think google owes you a top ranking?
      Just because...?

      I don't get this, "Google owes me..." mentality.

      They owe you nothing, especially an explanation.

      They don't exist for you. You are trying to exist
      because of them. That's a bad way to look at it.

      Google just had record profits. So, it's quite comical
      when people say stuff like google is hurting everyone...

      Right.

      If you choose to live by google, you can die by google.

      If you can't take that as an option, then stop living
      by google.

      Paul
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  • I really hate google. The only reason why I'm pissed about it is because the page with my CPA offers (Free gift cards, get your free gift cards today from Rogue Valley Ads) went from 3rd to 700+ ... that's the only thing that I care about lol
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    • No one ever knows what Google is doing. They don't want you to know. You can thank spammers for that. People that have no intent to put out quality content without trying to cut corners. Owning a website is hard work. No way around it.
      Google owes us nothing. There are ways to succeed without Google. Harder, more work, but it can be done.
  • Google hates those kind of sites? Where did you heard that myth?
    That's why most of my pages get indexed within a day on that site? It's currently PR4 with over 1000+ indexed pages, yet google hates me?
    I never said that google owes me anything, but don't you think jumping from top 5 to 683 position is kind of too drastic? I understand going from top 5 to like a 2nd page or something, but not to 683 position ...
  • You are lost positions in Friday (14th October)? Panda update.

    You have duplicate content on your site - Copyscape search results for: http://www.roguevalleyads.com/
    Maybe this is not reason for losing positions, but I'am shure that duplicatet content is not good.
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    Dude no offense but that site structure is !

    Are you kidding?

    That's one heck of a long page-title/URL, every page I looked at is the same, looks like a messed up sentence rather than a page-title!

    hxxp://www.roguevalleyads.com/ads/

    What in the world are you trying to accomplish with this? It's totally random keywords.

    I count 7 pages worth of keywords in a single page-title/URL, actually that whole page looks like spam. That's not content.
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    • Just a heads-up. The recently leaked Google doc discusses this type of URL specifically and makes no bones about it - it is considered spam.
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    Panda.

    So that's everyones escape route huh?

    Don't practice basic seo, then blame it on Panda?

    Silly ideas. :rolleyes:
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    • Oh well, looks like "sandbox" is out of the game of blame and it is now time for "panda". LOL!
  • Duplicated content? It's basically has 10 same ads as the other classifieds web sites.
    No I did not lose my ranking after Panda update. I lost them most likely yesterday since when I checked my site it was still fine 2 days ago.
    As far as long urls, it creates url from the ad title, so if you put I want to sell this and that your url will be mysite.com/I-want-to-sell-this-and-that

  • Interesting footer links ....

    Buy backlinks, Quality link building services | Buy Backlinks Cheap

    not sure id put OBL to seo services like that for any pages i wanted to RANK
  • This whole thread is about spam IMO. Although you may not have seen issues when Panda came out it does not mean that a random Google bot recently scanned your site and found issues. From what I am reading in the thread and seeing on your site yes it looks like spam and I can agree with anyone who has said that as the answer to your issue.

    I do not even need to suggest anything beyond support for the previously posted answers. Try and provide a more quality search result.
  • This is exactly the type of site Google doesn't need nor want in its SERPs. Not only that, but your links are spam and they most likely just lost their value.
  • My advice is to start looking into other free methods of obtaining targeted traffic, Google traffic is great but if you lose your high ranking and have no back up plan your screwed.

    In the meantime make tweaks to your fallen website and build high PR links to it and see if that helps.
  • How is my web site spam, I don't get it? Look at the ads, 99% of them are legit. I do get spam ads 1-2 times a day, but they usually deleted within first 15-20 minutes. 2 keywords that it was ranking for were "rogue valley" and "rogue valley jobs"
    So you saying google marks all the classifieds sites as spam? Who came up with that myth? I said I'm not worried about since I don't receive a lot of traffic from organic search anyways (only 10-15 uniques / day), all my traffic comes from local advertising. Again I also know that google DON'T OWE ME ANYTHING.
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    • I'm not saying your site is spam but what I am saying is that Google's own documentation identifies sites with tons of hyphens in the URLs as spam. The hyphens are definitely a signal and could be hurting you.
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      Really, this doesn't look like spam to you?

      This came from your site.

      That is 100% Grade A USDA Spam!





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    I'm just clicking random pages, it's all spammy.

    Maybe you can show us on Google Maps, maybe it exist (I kinda doubt it)?

    At least make the pages realistic.
  • lol.. this is so amusing...
  • Hey..I think it might be because of new algorithm of Google. Just my thought. Yet Google is a authority, you can't tackle it easily. May be you have not done back linking for quite a while, would be the reason.
  • Lol Paul. ... so much hate. Every single time in read a post that sounds like god giving lessons that are not even related to the topic I take a look at the name and there is Paul, never letting me down. Listen to him guys, he knows the intenedtz.
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  • If you did not create backlink how Google will push you up. Try to create backlink to your site, also use Facebook, Twitter to get traffic. And the content at your site, I see it do not have any value, people will leave this after few second. I think this is a reason your website can not go up.
  • Looks like it was just Google Dance. It's back in the top 5.
  • Definitely not Google dance. One of my site was ranking top 3 and now it's on page 11 and has not recover for over 5 months...Something changed at Google.
  • Well, as you can see it was a google dance for me, because it was in 700+ position 2 days ago, now it's back in top 5.
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    • From here you're #1 for Rogue Valley Jobs. Not sure how much traffic that'll get you, but #1 is always nice.

      This thread has been entertaining.
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  • It is also happening to my website. The traffic All of my website down
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    WTF GOOGLE!

    Hey guys, Not sure if it's google dance or my web site just got penalized or something, but for some reason my web site - Jobs in Medford Oregon, Online Classifieds | Rogue Valley Ads just dropped in rankings dramatically, I'm talking about 700+ position ... I didn't create any backlinks for it for the past 2 month, basically I haven't touched it ... It was sitting in the top 5 for 2 main keywords, now I'm in 700+ ...