Sunday Times article - request for help

#1

Dear all,

I am writing an article about how Google goes about blacklisting sites,
why it happens, whether it is fair, and whether the search giant has
too much power.

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

Any help much appreciated.

Stewart Mitchell

#2

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:19:06 +0100, Mitchell <sgmitchell (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

I would ask at webmasterworld.com

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#3

"Mitchell" <sgmitchell (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Dear all,

I am writing an article about how Google goes about blacklisting sites,
why it happens, whether it is fair, and whether the search giant has
too much power.

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

Any help much appreciated.

Stewart Mitchell

I have a site which has been hit by the
minus 30 penalty and will never appear above 31
in the SERPS.
It went from over 10,000 visitors a day to a just few
hundred overnight and has been like this for nearly
12 months.

#4

Mitchell schreef:

Quote:

Dear all,

I am writing an article about how Google goes about blacklisting sites,
why it happens, whether it is fair, and whether the search giant has
too much power.

Only chewing tabacco has been chewed on more.

Quote:

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

Any help much appreciated.

I would phone kinderstart.com but if they will answer you, and when they
do it won't be a rant, i can't tell you.

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#5

Quote:

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

BMW?

#6

On 12 Nov 2006 02:19:06 -0800, "Mitchell" <sgmitchell (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

Quote:

Dear all,

I am writing an article about how Google goes about blacklisting sites,
why it happens, whether it is fair, and whether the search giant has
too much power.

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result?

SEO Dave does, his old lingerie site.

BB

#7

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:54:19 -0000, "T.J." <no1 (AT) home (DOT) invalid> wrote:

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"Mitchell" <sgmitchell (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:1163326746.336478.254530 (AT) b28g2000cwb (DOT) googlegroups.com...
Dear all,

I am writing an article about how Google goes about blacklisting sites,
why it happens, whether it is fair, and whether the search giant has
too much power.

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

Any help much appreciated.

Stewart Mitchell

I have a site which has been hit by the
minus 30 penalty and will never appear above 31
in the SERPS.
It went from over 10,000 visitors a day to a just few
hundred overnight and has been like this for nearly
12 months.

I can't see that as being permanent. Did you check it over for
everything? Silly me, of course you have. Weeeeell, I'd think it would
come out eventually.

BB

#8

On 12 Nov 2006 04:38:29 -0800, "Phil Payne"
<phil (AT) isham-research (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Quote:

Does anyone know of a company/site that has been blacklisted and
struggled as a result? I need to interview someone for a case study and
would like to highlight what it means to be delisted, or even have
rankings slashed.

BMW?

That was just cosmetic.

You could ask this guy; http://www.rob-james.com/ he's a well-known
magician (apparently, I don't follow these things) and his site was
ding great and then it tanked for a while. His site was very spammy,
loads wrong with it, and it got banned or demoted or whatever, and he
cleaned it up and submitted a reinclusion request and it's doing well
again. But he could be a good study because he's already someone in
the public eye to a degree. You can mention I suggested you contact
him. Not that we're buds but he'll probably ask how you knew about any
of this.

BB

#9

"Mitchell" <sgmitchell (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Dear all,

I am writing an article about how Google goes about blacklisting sites,
why it happens, whether it is fair, and whether the search giant has
too much power.

To show the other side of the coin, maybe also tell the story that some
sites *don't* get blacklisted despite of what they are doing.

Another good question, or at least something I am wondering about, why is
it next to impossible to have blogspot spam sites removed even though
those sites are using JavaScript redirects which has clearly an affiliate
number to a site that's clearly spammy. (One might wonder why this whole
thing is possible in the first place).

Finally: does a company that's not evil really need a mantra staying the
obvious?

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