Google Hate Me Long Time

John Lessnau • January 22, 2012 • Comments (0)

This is my personal blog. I used to give away some very nice widgets and WordPress plugins. My price, a simple ByLink - nice free functionality for a Powered by The Lessnau Lounge link crediting this site and my work. This strategy helped The Lessnau Lounge rank very well for most things I wrote about. I even spoke about using widgets and themes to get free ByLinks at the WebMasterWorld PubCon Austin.

After realizing I could rank for anything, I made a mistake and decided to get in a few competitive affiliate programs to take advantage of my ranking power. In no time I was ranking top 5 against competitors that have been spamming to rank for their money keywords for years.

As one would expect, affiliates accustomed to making thousands of dollars per month do not appreciate being knocked down the rankings by a newcomer’s single blog post. Soon, I started to notice oddball profile links, massive WP theme ByLinks, and bad footer links showing up in my backlinks. I began to realize I was being Google Bowled. I figured that this site was well enough established and was getting 100s of legit free links each day from the stuff I was giving away that Google would not take the Google Bowler’s bait. I also believed the Google company line that Google Bowling does not work. Boy was I ever wrong.

One day out of the blue this site was dropped from Google. Just like that, The Lessnau Lounge no longer existed. I have since removed all the pages I could that had ByLinks pointing to them and also removed my affiliate program pages. I figured eventually this site would pop back in Google because the site was now non commercial and I would have my Lessnau Lounge platform again. 1.5 years later and no change.

Not to be deterred, I decided to start posting again and use other non Google sources to send traffic. I have become more active on my Lessnau Lounge Twitter account but 140 characters are not enough to express more than one-liners. Maybe one day Google will come around, but I doubt it. They control the web and if you are not in their index, you don’t exist – always remember that before you push the envelope.

I would just dump this website and move on but this domain is my last name and I do exist (Even if Google says I don’t). Google can take back the traffic they gave me but they can’t take my name – at least not yet. So the new Lessnau Lounge begins, can a Google Bowled site return to the Google index even if quality original posts continue to flow in. The Google spider still visits, so we’ll see how smart that Google algorithm really is.

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