| Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 8:29 AM | We were hit last week by http://thebesthosting.org and a bunch of our locally SEO'd sites completely disappeared from SERP. I mean gone. Almost all of these sites were top 10 ranked in their respective categories and then the next day, poof, gone. I suspe |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | John | 9/22/09 8:42 AM | What does that mean? Hit by? Per the posting guidelines, without a URL to look at and details I doubt you will get much support in this forum. |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 8:50 AM | Hit by means that in a bunch of our analytics accounts they "bombed" us with hits. More importantly though, it looks like they are randomly generating GA numbers and that once they find one that is active they are then somehow using them to connect |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | JohnMu | 9/22/09 9:45 AM | Hi Toby This site looks really new - and fluctuations are completely normal with new sites like that. Can you give us some examples of other sites from your "bunch of locally SEO'd sites"? I'm worried that you may be searching a bit too far there ... |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 9:57 AM | I could understand a fluctuation, but the issue we are having is that it is completely gone. In fact a search for "http://onlineadvertisingaustin.com" yields no results. Other examples are http://accountingaustin.com (was not hit and is still up) and online-advert |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | JohnMu | 9/22/09 10:30 AM | Hi Toby As an online marketing company, I'm sure you're aware of our Webmaster Guidelines, in particular "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." Can you elaborate why you're trying to create this m |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 10:40 AM | We offer services in so many categories on a local level that we have to market to each one individually. Like I said, these are temp pages and we are launching the new sites, which will have forms unique to each industry and city, as well as custom |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | Becky Sharpe | 9/22/09 1:18 PM | Wordpress have suspended at lest one of your sites for breach of TOS - http://austinbusinessconsulting.wordpress.com/ - might be worth investigating what's happening there. |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 1:23 PM | Yeah, we got some bad advice a while ago and were told to set up Wordpress and blog sites to point to our web pages. We set up a few initially and then found out that this was the wrong way to go. They were all identical so wordpress took them down. |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | JohnMu | 9/22/09 2:46 PM | Hi Toby I can pretty much assure you that those referrers are not negatively affecting your collection of sites. If you are seeing fluctuations, it's almost certainly due to other issues. Hope it helps! John |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 3:03 PM | John We are not talking about fluctuations. We are talking about sites that were consistently ranked for weeks and months that went COMPLETELY away the day we were attacked. I'm very familiar with the fluctuations that can occur in SERP, and I can |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | John | 9/22/09 3:11 PM | I'd be more worried about this, which is clearly against the Google webmaster guidelines, than some fictitious referral bomb. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Welcome+to+BidModo.+We+make+finding+%22&start=0&sa=N |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 3:30 PM | John Like I said before, we put up temp holding pages until we have the sites fully built. We're familiar with the guidelines and have no intention of having duplicate content on these pages. Each page will have its own unique form and copy for th |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | luzie | 9/22/09 3:31 PM | *Sigh* ... *YACOGRD* ("yet another case of guaranteed ranking demanded") - Does Google need to rank your site, is it kind of obligatory for any search engine to rank you? |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/22/09 3:42 PM | Luzie Sorry, but I'm really frustrated as I came here with a legitimate question and concern about a referral attack, and all I'm getting is people accusing me of doing something malicious. I can assure you that there is absolutely no intention on |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | alexjalba | 9/23/09 12:50 AM | Hi all I had exactly the same problem like Toby. I am from romania and in one day I sow in Analytics 30 visits from Brazil...with which I don't have any conection and starting that day my site apears in Google search only if I search after domain na |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | JohnMu | 9/23/09 1:13 AM | As I mentioned before, referrer spam is not something that you generally need to worry about with regards to your site's listings in our search results. This is an age-old technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam (many mentions are much |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | Becky Sharpe | 9/23/09 1:31 AM | Check out "Doorway Pages" in the Guidelines Toby. You say your pages were returning in the top 10, but as empty holding - and doorway pages - they actually had no value to the user. This is the most likely reason for them disappearing. |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | Phil Payne | 9/23/09 1:49 AM | Referrer bombing is a well known and acknowledged problem: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=1a9b2f4d4b3688a8&hl=en It has nothing at all to do with the sites "disappearing" - that's because of domain farm issues. |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | toby1417 | 9/23/09 7:00 AM | John How is this any different? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=+site:businessdirectory.bizjournals.com+accounting+%22Local+Business+Listings+-+Find+Local+Businesses.%22+bizjournals.com&ei=Sim6StO9IuSb8AaGiemMCg&sa=X&oi=ma |
| Re: Referrer Bombing has caused some of my sites to instantly disappear from google SERP | CDRSAM | 9/26/09 3:37 PM | So are you saying Webaliser or AWStats are public? They are password protected, no? Not that it sounds like this has anything to do with this issue. |