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More options Feb 22 2008, 4:01 am

From: ShyBoy

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:01:26 -0800 (PST)

Local: Fri, Feb 22 2008 4:01 am

Subject: Re: Please Help! -60 penalty from Google due to proxy site.

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I had no idea what the cause is so removed everything that might have
caused the problem. After the drop, I sat down myself to read the
webmaster guidelines and decided that the links could also cause the
drop. I never thought reciprocal links were a problem as pretty much
all of our competitors have them. Much larger then ours at that.
Why would our site drop while all the rest still be up there? Some
competitors have over 100 pages of links. Thus, I discounted the idea
that it is the cause of my problem but removed just in case. Nothing
was done in bad faith as you seem to suggest. Thanks for your help.

On Feb 22, 8:43 am, seo101 wrote:

> How do you know it was due to the proxy hijack and not the five pages
> of links exchanges that you had and now deleted? Why did you not tell
> us about them when posting here asking for help?

> Here is the cache of one of them:http://72.14.253.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ...

> On Feb 22, 6:36 pm, ShyBoy wrote:

> > We are a small family business and we have just been dropped from the
> > serps due to a proxy hijack (I think that's the term). We have blocked
> > the IP for now while I look at ways of preventing this happening again
> > in the future. (Not techy at all)

> > When you searched on Google for a bunch of text on our page, his site
> > appeared and upon clicking on the link, it forwarded us to our site,
> > through a proxy site.

> > This is the proxy site.http://www.tylerschnaidt.com/blocked/nph-index.pl

> > It seems to feast on sites as every day it grows by around 3000.

> >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.tylerschnaidt.com&btn...

> > It seems that the proxy version of our page was re-crawled last night,
> > and, due to the IP ban, was de-indexed. Unfortunately, our ranking is
> > still stuck between the 40 - 60 mark for all keywords, phrases and
> > even our domain name. We used to rank really well and now we are at
> > the bottom of the pond. We have (what we think) is a good site which
> > we worked on for hours and hours every night to get just the way we
> > wanted it.

> >www.farawayfurniture.co.uk

> > I have filed a re-inclusion form and a spam report when it first
> > dropped us from serps.

> > We have had the penalty for over 11 days now and it is really
> > affecting our business. We just can't afford to miss out on the
> > beginning of the spring season here in the UK. This is our only source
> > of income and as such this is causing my wife and me great stress and
> > sleepless nights. This is extremely serious for us, but we feel as if
> > Google has let us down as we have not even had an automated response
> > to say they are looking into it. We feel helpless and distraught. Why
> > does it take so long for Google to act on these people who literally
> > ruin honest people's lives? Why is there no-one to talk to even via
> > email?

> > Does anyone have any advice on this? The SEO guy we used for advice
> > ran out of ideas.

> > Sorry for the rant,
> > Shai- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

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