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Originally Posted by WebGuerrilla
Pretty impressive detective work Marc.
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Greg, give credit to Ryan. He pulled this from his analytics data. I would have done the same but there was an error in my analytics account.
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I have never denied the fact that during my time as a consultant for AA that I gave both Yahoo and Google examples of other companies engaging in the same kind of behavior that got AA penalized. It's part of the job when you are doing reinclusion work. You clean up your mess, say your sorry, and promise not to do it again. You also respectfully ask them to apply the same standards to everyone in the space. That doesn't always happen, but you always ask. Doing anything less than that would be the equivalent of SEO malpractice.
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Interesting. I suppose that is the natural thing to do - clean up, apologize, promise never to do it again and then point the finger at everyone else.
Is it safe to say that you are admitting that you pointed Google over to the various REW sites that were penalized?
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To take that and say I'm somehow responsible for you getting banned I think is making some attempt to imply that I have some type of ability to convince Google to take action against sites that aren't actually violating their guidelines.
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Ahhhh....no. I never implied that you could convince Google to penalize sites that were staying clean. As far as I could tell every site that got penalized were in violation by having state pages and excessive reciprocal links.
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There have been people on this and other forums trying to explain to those who would listen that no search engine feels that all reciprocal linking in the real estate space was acceptable long before I ever posted here.
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I don't disagree with you there.
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That being the case, the only one you have to blame is yourself.
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I do blame myself. I have control over my website and could have deleted those stage pages and reciprocal links. However, those of us that have been penalized didn't need you waving a huge red flag over our sites yelling Google's name.