I was just checking the stats of WatchFreeEpisodes.com, my main website, and said "Uh oh" when I saw only 900 hits at around 3:20 p.m.That's because the days before, that site averaged 10,000 or more hits per day.
At first I thought my DreamHost Private Server was down -- but that had been amazingly reliable ever since I pushed the scale up to the highest and most expensive capacity a few weeks ago.
Then when I checked the keyword activity and saw all my searches were coming from Yahoo, Ask, MSN and the like, I knew immediately what happened: The Big G punished me.
But this time, as opposed to dropping me down in the rankings (which I think is what they did before to this blog) Google totally unindexed all my website's pages out of their search engine results.
Why did Google punish my website?
I can only surmise it's because I'd been playing around with the lovely wp-o-matic plugin developed by some whiz kid. Along with all my original content, I'd use wp-o-matic to put up posts based on feeds, leading people to the Good Morning America, Today Show, or whatever videos they wanted to see.
Oh well, so much for that.
The last time Google punished this blog, it seemed to be on punishment for a few months or so -- and that's when God gave me the idea to create that dot com in the first place.
So now I look at WatchFreeEpisodes.com's punishment as another time out. Who knows how long Google will make me stay there. I guess I can email them...
But any way, this just lets me know it's time to go in another direction. More Amazon Associates advertising via Google Adwords -- and writing other stuff.
There's always a reason when something closes shop.
Another bigger and better and brighter shop is bound to open...
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Unless you want to be like John Chow and want to show you can do without them.
All fingers crossed in the prayer position...
Anyway, the break is giving me a chance to learn about other things, like Adgooroo search marketing.
They did that to one of my sites last year and in about 6 weeks we were back on the first page.
All the best.
Ah well, you live and learn.
So glad I'm learning a new direction.
What's the latest on this? Are you anywhere near normal traffic? Reach Google?
The latest is that WatchFreeEpisodes.com is still unindexed by Google as of this writing -- and Google dropped the pagerank from 3 to N/A.
That's my own fault.
For anyone using the wp-o-matic plugin on WordPress, realize that this can happen to you!
Anyway, THANK GOD for chastizing me letting me still have the CPTimes.com site, which has a better PageRank of 4 anyway, so I'm building that up.
I submitted the reconsideration request to Google thru Google Webmasters. I guess I could track down some Google employees email addresses like I did before and contact them...
But I'm still so into Mastering Search Advertising: How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google AdWords right now, that that's my focus.
Thanks for checking, I'll keep posting...
If you use wp-automatic you need a complementary plugin called uniquifier plugin
But that is too black hat for me.
Paula I am reading Winning with Google Adworks and on the first chapter says that Google targets those sites which show past clips on episodes for unindexing.
He thinks it is a bit unethical because they compete with google products like youtube.
Anyway look into it.