I rarely post in the
seo forums (more likely to find me in the web programming area of this site) but that does not mean that I am oblivious to what goes on in the
SEO world.
Two things strike me straight away. You have posted 3 times in this thread and both times you listed your site you could not refrain from trying to add a totally miniscule amount of
pr with keyword stuffed links to your site.
I don't have any clue as to how google approach the programming of their spiders but if someone came to me with a brief of programme a spider that crawls the net detecting spammy sites then I would run a first pass test with something similar to the following.
I dont need to go into regular expression syntax to give you an inkling but it goes as follows.
Look for:
Bold text, color red, larger text (in anchor links/styles etc) containing £, € and $ symbols, multiples of either symbol such as "make $$$$$, make ££££" etc.
Ridiculously high keyword ratio for the words "buy, sell, sale, make money" and so on and so forth.
Take a look at your site, I could not even be bothered to read the index. Google have programmers on their payroll that are a lot more
seo savvy than myself and have seen all the scams in the book,
SEO guys push the boundaries, the spider programmers get wise and what was a great tactic yesterday now get you delisted.
If you look at your own site as a visitor do you really need to ask why? It had to happen sooner or later.
Most of your links on your index double back to your index or to "buyabusiness.php". Time to take another look at your site and add more content to outweigh the amount of spam that is there. Looking at your site with the red $$$ etc it looks like one of those sites from an ebook "make a million dollars in a week".
Thats how I see it and you can be sure thats how the spiders see it.
Go through your site whilst looking at one of those get rich quick sites (yellow background, huge red font monetary symbols etc) and don't do what they do, stuff your site with keyword rich content but dont bold it or color it red, 1 monetary symbol is all that is needed to convey a price. Multiple monetary symbols = red flag to a spider.
Time to smarten up your site.
Another thing about .htaccess why? why bother with redirects, mod rewrite etc, if a little thought goes into the planning of a site then
http://www.mysite.com/seo/articles/47 does not outperform
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?cont...articles&id=47 both end up at the same location and both will rank similarily, up to 3 parameters on a dynamic url and google does not bat an eyelid. Silly needless .htaccess tricks will get you in the s($t rather quickly.
The rules of the
seo game are well publicised. You only get penalties when you don't play by them.