Re: Victim of US/China politics, or simply bad luck?

"GlobeTrekker" <SeeLaiHK@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Stacey wrote:
>>
>> Well you didn't say how old the site was, and did you gain a lot of links
>> quickly in a short period of time? Also how long was it indexed beofre it
>> left? Just remember you can't pick and choose what people want to tell
>> you
>> on the Usenet.:-)
>
> I think I did mention (in the original message at the top) that the
> site is more than two years old and that Google indexed it for two
> years.

Sorry missed it.

>
> Yes, I gained a lot of links starting (around) February 2004 (that
> would be almost two years ago). And many links were from reputed,
> trusted sites.


Nope, not what I was thinking as it has to be recently and lots at one time.

> The last I checked, until January 20, 2006, the site had high ranking
> and the commands "site:mysite..." and "link:mysite..." were displaying
> thosands of pages (yes, all posts and photographs amount to more than
> 3,000 - at the least).
>
> Also, during that time I had a PR (Page Rank) of roughly 5 and above
> (depending on the page, etc.) Main page was PR 5.

This would indicate some sort of ban or penalized badly. Are you linking to
and with any bad sites that SPAM or do other techniques listed in Google's
guidelines not to do. Or have you done anything of the same?
http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html

Stacey


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