Hello Everyone..
Many may have seen my posting here alot lately, as many of us are in the same situation and no idea what is going on with Google.
To refresh everyone,
My site was in the #3 to #6 position for all of my keywords on Google for over 3 years until 17 Dec. 2004. My site without warning went from the above position to #103 to #130 on Google and has been there since.
On Yahoo and MSN, and just about any search engine out there that does not use Google, I am still #1 to #4 for all my keywords.
Only on Google, was my site affected.
I update my site at least 1 to 2 times every week, as what we do, the people want tosee new information every week to help them decide what they want to do. This is in the tourism industry.
When searching on Google for any of my keywords, there are only 16,000 to 84,000 sites that come up for the keywords. Out of all those, there are only about 6 legit sites that do what we do. The rest are just joe blow trying to make a dollar for something they have nothing to do with, mirror sites, blatent spam sites, and tons of sites that have nothing to do with what you were searching for. All of course above my site.
There is not one site that offers all the information we do, and of course, there isnot one site that is up to date as ours.
There is not any sites out there duplicating my content. My site is up and running all the time, and has not been offline at all for to cause on any problems at Google. I have not other sites out there. There are no affiliate sites. My PR is at 3 now, but was at PR 4 until about 2 weeks ago.
From all I have looked at, there is no reason for my site to be kicked down by Google.
I am sure all this sounds familiar to many since 17 Dec. 2004.
This has been about 5 weeks now, and my site slowly is moving farther and farther down the index (103, 106, 110) etc.
Does anyone out there have any idea what is going on?
How many of you are in the same situation as I am?
I have personally e-mailed Google also about 6 times in 2 years about a person who has a site which is somewhat a legit site, but over the last 2 or 3 years, he has been making new sites offering the same thing as his first (mirror sites) trying to take the top spots on Google, and he keeps getting awarded by Google for a job well done. He now has 6 sites offering the same thing on 5 of them (2 mirror, 1 re-direct, and all are pretty much similar content with slight variations). All Google say's to me is that they may look into it. This has been going on now for at least 2 years and 6 e-mails to Google with complete details. All that Google keeps doing is awarding this person more top positions on Google, and then pushingmy site down from #3 and #6 to since 17 Dec. 2004 to #103 to #130.
I really hope that we can all put our ideas together to figure out how we can all get out of this hole on Google. It does not look like Google will admit that there is a poblem, and it sure looks like Google is just making things worst, not better.
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