Comments on: Swollen Pickles biatch slapped by Google

By: How I got out of the Google dog house | Swollen Pickles

How I got out of the Google dog house | Swollen Pickles — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:45:13 +0000

[...] looks like SwollenPickles.com could finally be out of the Google dog house. You can read up on the beginning of the saga here. In summary, up until earlier this week, you had to filter through around five pages of search [...]

By: Fortnightly Update for 18th October | Dipping into the Blogpond

Fortnightly Update for 18th October | Dipping into the Blogpond — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:12:33 +0000

[...] Also to SwollenPickles, whose blog generally brightens my day (even when he’s been “biatch slapped by Google“). [...]

By: Friday collection of miscellaneous stuff | Swollen Pickles

Friday collection of miscellaneous stuff | Swollen Pickles — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:13:53 +0000

[...] Andy Beard airs his beef with the Google Monster and presents it far more eloquently than I did! [...]

By: Vegan Momma Receives A Drop In Google Page Rank

Vegan Momma Receives A Drop In Google Page Rank — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:38:31 +0000

[...] to add… Swollen Pickles experienced a spanking and posted about it on Swollen Pickles Biatch Slapped By GoogleÂ it was first you can read the follow up on Follow Up To My Search Engine Saga. I meant to include [...]

By: Follow up to my search engine saga | Swollen Pickles

Follow up to my search engine saga | Swollen Pickles — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:44:35 +0000

[...] hours have passed since I emailed the Big ‘G’. As yet I have not received a reply. It’s a little bizarre though. Right now, traffic to this [...]

By: Terry F

Terry F — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:33:57 +0000

Yep, I had one of mine get slapped. I dropped from front page down to page 4. I saw my traffic drop from the 250 a day down to 40-50. I am not selling links or anything though. Traffic seems to be picking back up now, but it is nowhere near where it was.

By: Opal Tribble

Opal Tribble — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:37:44 +0000

I received a drop in PR most likely due to the sponsor I have on my website. I don’t like Text Link Ads I much prefer to contact the advertiser on my own. The one I do have I received myself so naturally I received all the money.

They paid me a lot of money to sit on my website for six months. There is no way I’m yanking that or making it nofollow to make the Big G happy. I happen to like the company.

I write original content on all my websites and a few of them get scraped several times a week. That gets annoying. I also see they don’t get penalized regardless of the reports I or others have sent. Talk about ridiculous! Most likely that is due to the fact that those spam sites are making Google money from the adsense ads.

The good news is my traffic wasn’t affected. It keeps going up. I don’t depend on search engines for the majority of my traffic and I did that purposely. I do a lot of networking via social networks, forums, blogs, etc.,

If you are dependent on them for online monetization on them well you sort of have to do what they say even if you don’t agree with it.

The majority of the money I make is through affiliate marketing. I make a lot that way with adsense I average about $70 monthly.

Some people have been successful with their reinclusion. I know David Airey was. He even talks about what he did to make that happen on his website.

By: Uros

Uros — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:05:23 +0000

Don’t worry it happens time to time. I bet your site will get as much organic traffic as you used to get. Just wait few days.

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:31:50 +0000

UGH. Sorry to hear that Google got you. I guess I should be happy that my site doesn’t have a real PR yet…Otherwise I would’ve had TLAs on my site too and would’ve undoubtedly been abused by the big G as well.

GL with the reinclusion, you gotta tell me how that goes for you.