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 More options Feb 22 2008, 6:38 am
From: ShyBoy
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:38:18 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Feb 22 2008 6:38 am
Subject: Re: Please Help! -60 penalty from Google due to proxy site.
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Hi silverstall. Yes, when you did a search for a chunk of text on my
front page, the tylerschnaidt showed up in the results instead of
farawayfurniture. This changed overnight last night after I blocked
his IP 3 days ago. I was hoping the serps will return after that
happened but it has not.

Actions taken so far:
1. Blocked IP of the proxy site as detailed above
2. Removed reciprocal link pages (they had a global nofollow on them
btw)
3. Added nofollow to the only two external links on my front page (one
was Unite Nations Env Program and the other was the website designers)
4. Files a re-inclusion and Spam report from WBT (done 10 days ago)

Is there anything else I can do? Seriously, I am not just saying this,
but this is a massive problem for us. Without exaggerating, this could
cost us our home if it carries on for more then a week or two.

This whole episode has taught me two valuable lessons. One is to never
trust someone else with your source of income without continually
checking up on them and checking for yourself that what they are doing
is 100% ok, and the other is that no business should be reliant so
much on one source of visitors. But, as it's a new business (3 years
old), we could not afford any other type of advertising.

Anyone else have any suggestions on what I can do next? Any idea on
how long if at all the site will come back into the search results?

Many Thanks,
Shai.

On Feb 22, 10:59 am, silverstall wrote:

> Are there any results in google showing any of your URLS preceded by
> 'tylerschnaidt' in the url name ? If not I think seo101 is correct
> that it was probably due to links or other problems on your site.
> Google are pretty quick at removing proxy duplicates of a URL. If a
> 302 redirect is used the tendenacy is to index the destination URL in
> preference to the source URL.


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