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By: BetsLoader

BetsLoader — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:50:55 +0000

I’m wondering if anyone else experienced a slaughterhouse effect on their back pages on their way to a higher PageRank.

By: Jesse Brede

Jesse Brede — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:19:08 +0000

Don,

I’ve recovered my site from the minus 30 penalty. I’ve started a blog with a step by step approach for webmasters at http://minus30.com.

Its not as hard or as ambigous as it may seem. Google’s webmasters tools are basically an instruction guide of whats important to google – no httpd errors, keyword density, sitemap, etc…

I’m open to feedback and user submissions.

By: Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:54:38 +0000

I’m glad the PR export is finally done, Matt. I’m wondering if anyone else experienced a slaughterhouse effect on their back pages on their way to a higher PageRank.

By: Jesse Brede

Jesse Brede — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:27:23 +0000

Matt,

Thanks again for taking the time to write your blog.

Could you please address the alleged 30 serp penalty that I have been reading so much about and appear to be suffering from as well? I think you could clear up some massive confusion for a good number of webmasters.

Jesse

By: Jim Clouse

Jim Clouse — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:16:19 +0000

Mister P:

Thanks for mentioning http://hotelmotelNOW.com/ and my 30 serp penalty which I have incurred for 10+ months. Although Matt didn’t respond, I think my old programmer and I finally found and fixed the problem yesterday.

The programming firm I hired last fall was not as qualified as I had been led to believe. They really failed at error reporting. When a hotel was no longer in the database, they used first a 302 and then a 301 when they should have used a 410.

It gets even worse. Some of the 301s were resulting in a loop. In fact, we had to shut down the server to clear it out. Anyway, my old programmer is back and he fixed the problem in 10 minutes.

What the bad error reporting probably triggered was sneaky redirects and perhaps even suspicion of cloaking. Neither of which are true but I can see where the algo was tripped.

This morning I filed a reinclusion request explaining the problem. As soon as the reinclusion team looks at it I feel confident that Google will remove the penalty if it is not removed automatically via the algo because Google always liked hotelmotelnow.com before I hired those programmers. Thank God my old programmer is back!

Jim

By: JLH

JLH — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:19:59 +0000

When you do a search and there is a suggested second search, the syntax is:

Did you mean:

Don’t we usually use a “?” as punctuation for a question? (or is it “:” )

By: Don Reese

Don Reese — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:52:43 +0000

So….this minus 30 penalty is a big topic onlne right now,
What does one have to do to have it removed?

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:33:46 +0000

Mike -
You have to create a NEW account for the URL removal tool. One of my pet peaves is all the different accounts you have to have to use the various Google services.

By: Don Reese

Don Reese — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:58:35 +0000

Simple question Matt, How does one get a manually imposed penalty
removed? ie the minus 30 penalty for one

please comment

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:31:16 +0000

I’m unable to use the url removal tool because it says there is already an account for my email address. When I try to login, I get a “Login Error”. Is this a true error or is someone else using my account?