Are You Getting Nuked By Google Lately? By: Martin Lemieux
Since the last Google update, there have been many instances and
examples of the Google Nuke Bot! This is what I call it anyway.
Have you visited a favorite website lately only to realize
they’ve been nuked by Google?
More and more we are seeing internet marketing / SEO companies
getting nuked, by Google completely removing them from their
data banks. I am not going to mention any names because I’m sure
the owners of the once populated websites already know and are
embarrassed from this development.
Since the word went out on WebPositionGold getting banned from
Google for automatic queries sent to Google, we are noticing
other related websites going down for the count as well.
For the info on WebPositionGold, go here:
http://www.socialpatterns.com/search-engine-marketing/webposition
-banned/
The things is, we already know about Webpositiongold, what about
other sites that are getting hit hard? Has your site been nuked?
It seems as though, some sites that had thousands of links
pointing from Google are getting hit the hardest. It seems like
Google is cracking down on “spam tactics”, “submission tactics”,
and anything related to unethical SEO practices.
Is Google Making An Effort To Uphold Their Webmaster Guidelines?
Will it come to a point where if we don’t uphold the Google
guidelines, we cannot be successful online? This thought is
ridiculous but almost scary to think it could happen! What about
website’s that still hide text through same background colours?
Hidden div layers? and mirror pages? Why hasn’t Google attacked
those issues first?
You can almost make the assumption that by Google nuking
websites that send automatic ranking & link popularity queries
to their data base, this may be a huge effort to relieve the
strain on the query servers in order to free up some memory.
How Does Getting Your Website Nuked From Google Affect Your
Credibility?
An event like this could ultimately ruin your reputation online.
People who have come to trust your knowledge and judgment on
Google rankings may never look at your company the same ever
again. People might think to themselves “I don’t want to get
nuked like they did!”.
How Can You Tell You’ve Been Nuked?
* Your Google Page Rank is now 0-2/10 and should be at least
5/10 * You have zero backlinks listing in Google anymore * You
have zero internal website listings within Google by doing
(site:www.yoursite.com) * Google’s cache of your website is no
longer to be found
For newer websites, don’t be confused between this nuking
process and your own evolution online. Getting and maintaining a
high PR level takes a lot of work.
Once Nuked, Does Google Still Come Back?
The question I have for websites that have been nuked: Can you
still see Google in your stat log files for your site? If so, I
wonder if Google is still keeping an eye on you and watching
your every move?
In Conclusion:
Stay away from programs that generate automatic queries into
Google. Don’t check your link popularity 3 times a week and
especially don’t check your search engine rankings twice a day.
Just simply promote your website and measure your success
through your internal website stats and monthly profits. Google
doesn’t appreciate websites that consistently draw their power
in order to measure their success, just simply take that out of
your daily actions.
Cheers to your online success!