I have noticed some serious issues this past week. I have had some pages rank ok for a few terms that have suddenly disappeared recently so I have been trying to figure out what happened.
On some of the terms, I have noticed that some of my friends here have disappeared along with me...so I am not the only person affected here.
On doing some of my research I decided to look for specific page names to see if that could help me determine what happened, and I have come up with some scary results.
Below, I will list some html page names which I currently use in a few places, but have had some serious damage done to them this past week or so. In some cases these page names are not very unique and I feel should return results in the 100's if not in the 1000's.
In one particular case, google returned a single result. In most cases my page names are .htm instead of .html It's obvious that html would return more results, but there are enough webmasters using htm that the results should NOT be as slanted as they are.
One pattern I have seen, is that on those searches that returned 15-50 results....many many of the results returned are listed as "supplemental" which means google considers them spammy. (this I believe to be a result of the problem...not the cause)
One thing for sure is that I found a specific website that has targeted some of us. In fact this jerk has singled out one of my sites and is using some of my page descriptions etc in his campaign.
In each case this jerk is using crappy subdomains (that mean nothing) are more than likely completely machine generated, and got to a search site that uses one of a few different templated designs.
In each case the sites are pulling links from the same IP. (To determine this right click on the link after following the result and you will see that same ip)
The searches are:
gamblingfederationcasinos.htm
rtgcasinos.htm
microgamingcasinos.htm
nodepositcasinos.htm
onlineroulette.htm
onlinecraps.htm
The offending ip is
xxhttp://64.111.196.117/
Pay special attention to the gamblingfederationcasinos.htm search. I am 1000% positive I am not the ONLY WEBMASTER IN THE WORLD to use that page name!! (MSN returns only 1 also and Yahoo returned 37)
For those that understand the implications of what is happening here, a quick spam report at Google would be appreciated and may help the industry out a bit if Google would go ahead and dump a few of these sites this loser is putting up.
I am seriously considering blocking this IP in my firewall, but would like to know if anyone else sees this IP either in their logs or they also have seen this show in results of sites that have been scrapped as well.
Rick
Universal4
The majority of the results from the above searches have 50 or lest results.