Duplicate content penalty. Ever heard of it? This penalty is applied by Google and possibly other search engines when content found on your website is largely the same as what is found elsewhere on your site or on other websites across the internet.
Search engine spam has been common ever since search engines were first invented. Search engine spam [...]
New Google Penalty? June 7th, 2009
Once again, the tales of a dreaded Google penalty are making the rounds - this time a whopping 50 spot drop in rankings has been observed, which anomaly in Google’s results could indeed indicate a new Google penalty.
Several webmasters have reported that their websites lost top positions on Google and [...]
Last week, I interviewed the head of Google’s spam team, Matt Cutts, about a lot of different issues. One of the most intriguing towebmasters appears to have been the discussion in the 2nd video (around 6:00) where we go into a chat about the real estate industry online, where thousands of websites have recently lost rankings due [...]
Traffic on these websites have dropped off immediately after I started promoting them on Twitter. Bestnewarticles.com has some original content on the ‘exclusive articles’ page and free-psychic-help.com has all original content. Both sites have been online for almost a year. Thanks.
1 person says this answers the question:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
“Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the buzzing [...]