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Old 06-08-2004, 07:11 AM
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One of my client's website is ranked #1 and 2 on yahoo and used to be ranked #1 and 2 on Google Then one day, all top ranking just completely disappeared from google. Someone told him to try and do the search terms on google but add "-asdf -asdf -asdf -asdf -asdf" to the search. Low and behold, the seach returned the old rankings. I have been advised that this indicates that google is filtering out my website.
If anyone is familiar with this story and knows how to stop google penalizing my client website
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Old 06-08-2004, 07:18 AM
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www.smarterreview.com

2 keywords are "New York Bar Review" and "New York Bar Exam"
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I am on a dial up connection and its hard work doing this...so did not look too closely at site - i can't help but think that they are involved in some dodgey link exchange schemes and could be hurting them.
Look at where all the links are coming from:
http://www.hotbot.com/default.asp?pr...rchbox&tab=web
They are all "link exchanges", appear to bo off-theme and I can't help think there are some FFA's & links farms in there... sorry cause of this dial up connection .... can't look further - I will be here forever...

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softzsolutions,

Your client already has a PR3 - Only God knows why - There is no "keyword" metatag on the index page!.

Get rid of the repetitive "subject" and "abstract" metatags - They do not help - beyond the "Description" metatag!

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Thanks Every one for your help,

But can any one throw light as what he is meaning by the google filtering "-asdf - asdf" with keywords. In fact I made a test and it seems the results are not varying after inclusion of those irrevalent terms
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