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

On 31 Jan 2006 00:37:18 -0800, "GlobeTrekker" <SeeLaiHK@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Stacey wrote:
>>
>> Nope, not what I was thinking as it has to be recently and lots at one time.
>>
>
>Well, during the period of two years, many around the world
>continuously linked me. In short, not a one off bunch of links I got
>before two years, but people kept linking me until recently, and they
>still do.
>
>>
>> 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
>
>I haven't added any new links lately. And those I have, I have checked
>them at Google using "site:theirsite" and "link:theirsite" commands. In
>fact, I just rechecked all my outgoing links at both my blogs (under
>same domain) right now, before typing this reply. And each of my
>outgoing link (except parts of my own site - as in albums), are still
>listed under Google via "site:..." command.
>
>Logic tells me that if they were bad (sites) or were/are spammers, then
>they would be banned or blocked *before* I was banned or blocked.
>
>As far as I am concerned, I don't spam and I have never even advertised
>my site at groups, or via mass email (as in junk or spam). Hell, I am
>even lazy enough not to answer email from my readers (promptly).
>
>I have also checked the keywords, probable or possible hidden words,
>etc. And I do follow Google's guidelines. In fact, I try to follow all
>guidelines, and if you see the bottom right sidebar, I have also taken
>the pain to validate my site W3C XHTML 1.0 compliant (as in totally
>passes validation without any errors).
>
>In short, I have done everything to find out the main cause of the
>problem. And tried my best to correct any possible glitches. BTW, XHTML
>validation was done two months ago (as in early December), so there
>should not be any problems with new design, code, etc.
>
>And I think that if bad/spam sites are linking me (without my
>knowledge), then logically and according to Google, I wouldn't be
>banned or penalized if I *don't link them back*.
>
>Which is why this whole affair (of dropping my site) looks strange to
>me? Once again, many thanks for all your help, suggestions, and time.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Ron
>
>PS: I am new to posting to these groups. How do I include the
>message/header information when I reply to you? Like you seem to do,
>that is. Many thanks.

That will depend upon what newsreader you are using. you have to learn
how to configure it to do what you want. If it cannot do what you
want, you have to try another newsreader.

As to falling in Google rankings, many people are experiencing this
for no apparent reason. We have no answers, only theories.

BB
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