Condemned To Google Hell

[Virtual Coder]

Don't anger the Google gods. In retrospect, Sanar thinks he can trace his problem to a search marketing consultant he had paid $35,000 to improve Skyfacet's Google rankings. He now believes the consultant mistakenly replicated content on many of the site's pages, making them look like duplicate--that is, spam--content. But even after he reversed the consultant's changes, he couldn't get Skyfacet's pages out of Google Hell, where they remain today.[^]

[Shog9 0]

So, yeah - he paid a guy to cheat, and got caught. So now it's all a big mistake. Sounds like he should be going after the consultant... :rolleyes: The story showed up over on /. the other day, and is even more ridiculous than the usual "our Google overlords" stories. First off, searching for Skyfacet brings up the guy's pages, so whatever sort of Hell he's in, it's remarkably lax on the visiting rules. Second, there are thousands of online jewelry stores - if that's your thing and the only tactic you have to bring in customers is trying to keep your pages high on the list for generic search terms, you're screwed. It'd be like me opening up a bar down on 3rd Street that depended on customers stumbling in through the back door while they were looking for a place to piss. Except, i'd still be guaranteed more business...

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