How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
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How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
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Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#2You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history.
Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could have promptly disavowed them and be done with it.
It's not Google's fault that you didn't dot you i's and cross your t's as a webmaster.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#3Site isn't loading for me.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#4You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history. Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could have promptly disavowed them and be done with it. It's not Google's fault that you didn't dot you i's and cross your t's as a webmaster.
Google's automated systems should still be smart enough to figure out the situation...
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#5Sounds algorithmic and not manual.
A lot of the junk in the trunk of a once-spammmy domain is hard to chase off. It's always important to complete due diligence when buying a seemingly authoritative domain.
From the horse's mouth:
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-dom...
Personally I think Google should figure out a way to wipe clean a domain's history when it transfers owners, but... that creates an incentive to spam the shit out of a domain and then just "transfer ownership" once it's hit with a penalty. Kind of a hard problem to solve, but an important one. I imagine someone like my dad, not knowing the first thing about the internet, wanting to set up a small site for his business. I picture him trying to buy a domain that matches his business name or something, and then never getting out of the gutter due to past damage to the domain. Not really fair to him (maybe this is a bit of an edge case, I dunno).
I think you'll find a thorough re-inclusion request here will likely help but won't completely bring a recovery (but seriously, make it as thorough as possible, including disavowing every link you didn't build).
Disavowing "dozens" of links is not exactly hard work - I've had people ask for help disavowing THOUSANDS of links their ex-agencies had pointed at their site.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#6You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history. Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could have promptly disavowed them and be done with it. It's not Google's fault that you didn't dot you i's and cross your t's as a webmaster.
It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static, and for not understanding that spam sites pointing to 404s on another site are a prime indication that a change has happened.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#7You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history. Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could have promptly disavowed them and be done with it. It's not Google's fault that you didn't dot you i's and cross your t's as a webmaster.
It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static, and for not understanding that spam sites pointing to 404s on another site are a prime indication that a change has happened.
Spammers are certainly able to have the whois data on a domain changed. It's simply a catch 22 for Google.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#8One thing I don't see anyone mentioning is why Google ignores the 404 and still applies the penalty.
PageRank is fully automated, and probably probes pages very frequently. If you let a 404 remove a penalty, people could probably occasionally 404 Google's crawler and see if it helps their rank to automatically remove poorly performing backlinks.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#9It seems like investigating the history of a domain before you buy it, and if it has a negative history either not buying it or ensuring you fix the issues with it would be considered, good practice. It seems like if you do not do that you have yourself largely to blame. Similar to buying a house that was built on the location of previous toxic spill, or that had lead paint, or is haunted.
Re: How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit
#10My friend, I sympathize with you. But surely you can email those webmasters in at most 30-45 minutes with requests to remove those links, give it a week, and then do the disavow tool? Is it not worth it to spend 2 hours to rescue your site that you care so much about?
RapGenius was able to do this in a few hours and they had THOUSANDS of bad backlinks. They even published their source code for automating it.
You gotta try. Good luck!