Extremely worrying news ! If brad fallon can get caught by these hackers what hope for the rest of us?
So you get your site to #1 or #2 for your main keyword phrase and BLAM!!!!
The next day you are gone, so far down in the rankings, that nobody sees you. And it isnt google that slapped you, it is one of your competitors
Brad fallon is one of the biggest names in SEO. His stompernet is one of the best sources of information and generally you cant get in because of limited numbers -
Yet at the time he reopened stompernet to new members - his flag ship wedding favors site had dropped to #1 to #17 and was falling, and the internet community was saying , was he using grey hat? or was he losing his touch?
It turns out it was neither - he was being forced out of the rankings by unscrupulous hackers , using proxy servers to make all of his content appear to be duplicate - the author of this article who fixed the problem for brad reported what he knew to google - who according to the article did nothing. SO now he has gone public.
Alert the criminal fraternity to the possibilities in the process…..
It makes fascinating reading. SEO guys
http://http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/google-proxy-hacking
So if your site is dropping in rankings, find a unique bit of content on your site and search in google:
If you see several entries, and some of them are coming from proxy servers (see the article to see how you can tell)
then you could be a victim of google proxy hacking too.
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