How INCOMING backlinks can HURT you !

Hi cagliostro,

From this post I would deduce that the article directory was infected with a virus, else why would your anti-virus software block it.

Is it possible that your own website is now infected? Have you checked your Google Webmaster Tools account to see if they list the reason for your de-indexing? Did you use the site: operator to verify that your websites are totally de-indexed? Did you check your sites using Google's Safe Browsing Tool?

Sorry about your income, hopefully you can get your rankings back soon!

Respectfully, I think you must have done something else to get banned.

I've even checked other sites that are listed on the same directory and they are not banned by Google

That's not crap. It's reality. I read your post. And I responded. This is a very true scenario. There is no way to find out if it's directly related to those sites you mention. I was simply suggesting qualility over quantity and not to submit to sites that link farm.

Now and days directories other than yahoo, dmoz, and google to name a few do not hold a well reputation. They are refered to as link farmers. They are open databases without guide lines that farm links. Generally filled with spam and malware.

I read a couple weeks back that google launches a big operation to crack down on these type of sites as well as sites that have more than 3 ads per page without any valid content.

If google banned the directory, there is a good chance that yor site felt victim or decreased its serp value. Check your logs .. See when the last time google bot crawled your site. A

Is your site on a shared server. If another user is spamming from that server google will ban the ip. More generally true with email tho.

It could also be an issue with your DNs. Maybe you are pulling from a different google server that doesn't have your site indexes.. Very very common for small sites.

I know a lot.. And there was no reason for you to discredit my post. I came to this forum from namepros looking for a more credited/ mature environment.

Unless you provide some data to back up or support that claim, it's - opinion.

Oh it is a fact now huh? One of the most deliberated topics in IM forums but thankfully you have swooped in with your vast experience to sum it all up for us in two sentences. Amazing.

I guess we can lay that whole debate to rest now guys. Someone alert the rest of the internet that we have discovered the truth.

In other less sarcastic words.. No sir, it is you that is wrong...fact.

Is it possible getting backlink even from high P website can hurt?

Thumbs up! As I said, keeping the myth alive in forums likes these and having Goole themselves send out notifications, will help them keeping the spam within a certain radius.
If Google would actually lower rankings of websites or even deindex them because of bad backlinks, then please bombard my top 10 competition with backlinks from bad sites! Oh wait... doesn't work, many SEOs tried it, never worked! Why? Because Google doesn't work that way! For as long as backlinks are the way to define rankings in search engines, it will not change.

I'll leave this conversation now, but please keep up the rumors. Because if everyone would stop being careful with backlinks, I wouldn't be as successful as I am now.