I know you don’t actually read every single mail but I’m really upset as how people try to ruin someone elses hard work on line. I just realised that I can’t comment on my own blog with my domain name. I earlier spoke to Richard at SEOgadget and we shared our views about what might have happened. Who will be the right person to speak to when you have your domain not banned but blocked from the internet?

Thanks

Mon

Sorry to go off topic but do you have any leads on how to get support for the new Google Videochat? We gave it a try here in the office with our Macs this afternoon and nobody got it even close to working. The installer completes, your browser restarts… not a whiff of a hint of a suggestion of video chat being installed. If you go back to the videochat page you’re invited to install it again.

The really odd thing is that there doesn’t seem to to be anyplace to report problems or seek support on it. Very strange. Looks like there may be a catch-22 here in which the installer has to work before you can seek support.

We’re all on recent-model Macbooks with Leopard.

Thanks!

Go ahead and take a look at the paid-for articles at the bottom of WebMD. The first article is for “Allergic Asthma Info” and if you search for that term on Google it actually returns that sponsored article at #4!

Of course, WebMD isn’t the only site to do this, but it seems to be accepted by G for some reason. Can someone please clue me in why one method is the devil and another method is not only accepted, but supported?

Out of curiosity, did it come from an @gmail.com account? Gah. I get tons of spam from @gmail.com email addresses. More so than from hotmail, yahoo, etc.

> How on earth are you supposed to get links if you are a new company?

Having recently picked up a spam penalty and spent the last 6 weeks trying to get rid of it, i have definately learnt from my mistakes.
http://www.cane furniture warehouse.co.uk (broke the link as don’t want to be seen spamming)
I got the penalty through ignorance, and had a resources page etc, breaking g guidelines. Basically i’ve learnt that you have to think differently to getting the ‘quick fix’ . you need to think ‘how can my site benefit people so much that it rewards being linked to?’

You need not to try and get passed the guidelines, but to use them to help you develop a worthwhile website that deserves links.

I’ve had a lot of time to think about this as this penalty has cost me a lot of money, and possibly my business.
My only other comment is that I wish the reconsideration request was a quicker process and that they emailed webmasters back, not knowing what’s going on is hard…..