BANS, PHPbay and others taking a hit by google

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I have 100+ sites that work entirely or partially around eBay and have not noticed any recent changes. What exactly would there be for Google to "catch on?" Why, as the author of that post suggests, would Google be having a problem with eBay? I don't get it. Maybe his site is a piece of shit with no content other than the eBay feeds ... no mystery there why he would have gotten pwned in the recent slap.


Frank
 
"The main reason is that I have seen my best performing site drop right out of the Google SERPS a couple of weeks ago, despite previously having good organic Google search traffic. It’s on an established domain, there is plenty of original content, it’s a .com, so I have a horrible suspicion it’s Google having a problem with eBay. Anybody else seen their eBay sites slapped?"

When did one's sites rankings ever mean shit? We do not even know what 'best performing' means, if anything.
 
What is it with Google? It seems that once they find out some webmasters are making a little bit of money off of something, they like to change their algo or remove sites. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.

I am not validating nor denying the information provided by the OP, just making an observation based on situations that are similar in nature.
 
Funny how that every time someone's site disappears or drops in rankings that Google are cracking down on some shit.

Sounds like bollocks to me.
 
nope- seeing domains previously sandboxed spring back to life with ebay content- I'd argue it's going the other way.

Again one person sees something and decides 'what' google is doing. Gotta love bloggers
 
As long as you provide value to a visitor with your ebay implementation you should not have to worry. However, if the majority of your website is geared towards driving the visitor away to ebay I'd see that as a reason to lose rankings in Google's opinion. If you build all websites using the same free template and implement the same footprint across the board, you might set yourself up for the risk of losing all your rankings.
 
OMGZ! My one site iz not makking monies for me!!!one!! Google Slapzoring meh! Oh Noes!!!!oneone!!!
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Above quote sums up that blog post. One site dropping in rankings does not a "slap" make...
 
I've had some sites get sandboxed recently, but some didn't, some SERPS went up, some went down - what else is new?
 
One blog post from some jackass doesn't mean anything.

BUT, in my opinion, Google will find some way to kill these sites eventually. It's obvious, really. Google stays relevant and useful by presenting the best results for a given search. Redundant, useless stuff like thin affiliate stores are probably high on their list of crap to kill. They smashed adsense arbitrage (thank God), so you know how they feel about worthless shit.

Add some unique content and useful links, then pray :D
 
ChrisS said:
One blog post from some jackass doesn't mean anything.

BUT, in my opinion, Google will find some way to kill these sites eventually. It's obvious, really. Google stays relevant and useful by presenting the best results for a given search. Redundant, useless stuff like thin affiliate stores are probably high on their list of crap to kill. They smashed adsense arbitrage (thank God), so you know how they feel about worthless shit.

Add some unique content and useful links, then pray :D
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I'd say w/ ebay yes and no.

There's not another place on the web where you can find nearly everything especially vintage/used items- so sites surrounding niches that are well put together, ad value (have content, allow a user to search for, locate, and buy a very specific queried search term) would in my opinion, be of added value to google.

After all ebay themselves implemented several techniques that I was using years ago to make a killing and quickly outranked myself and the 2-3 other people doing the same thing in SERPS.

I'd imagine that google would prefer to show (for instance) a user a site dedicated to early 1900's armchairs with descriptions about history, content, facts and links to buy said chairs than simply dropping to the ebay results pages which is where all the ebay.com long tail/niche term queries land on google.

After all which causes the user to say "nice- this is exactly what I"m looking for!?"

Throw together some thin listed crap and sure it may not go well. Throw togehter a site like Rgordon's golf ball site and I don't know why google wouldn't be pleased that a user finds what they want about a particular niche.
 
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Google stays relevant and useful by presenting the best results for a given search. Redundant, useless stuff like thin affiliate stores are probably high on their list of crap to kill.
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Well sure, but that doesn't mean Google has to have a hardon for eBay sites -- they already penalise thin affiliate sites, and a stock BANS, phpBay, WordBay etc. install is the very definition of thin affiliate. In my view this has nothing to do with eBay, as the OP suggests, and everything to do with garbage sites being put in the garbage where they belong.


Frank
 
i'd have to agree. my best BANS site (been around for almost 2 years) just dropped off google's SERPS the other day. i was ranking on the top 2 pages for most of my terms for a while, and now nothing. i still get MSN and yahoo traffic, but who the hell wants that...

but...this happens every once in a while. my sites would do well for a couple weeks, then drop off for more weeks. however, its been doing well for about 3 months...this is the first drop in a while. i am not using the standard BANS template or anything...all original content, great site. guess ill have to wait and see.
 
I would like to see an example of one of these quality content sites that google has suddenly rebuffed. Would you guys mind sharing?
 
It looks like he's just pasting a scare article to get some traffic to his godawful ebay affiliate software.
 
my ebay sites are fine....they've actually increased in the serps in the past week...this guy probably has some shitty SEO tactics he is using, i really don't see why google would have that big of a problem with sites listing ebay products as long as there is some other content on them and they aren't BH
 
Really is quite simple. Goggle are removing sites either because their "sandbox grace period" is over or their sites are low quality thin affiliate sites. Google have been VERY explicit about what they require, if people just read.

I'm glad to see it. Most BANS sites are just ebay listings on every page. Really, what value is that? Good riddance.
 
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