Admish.com - A real life example of a google penalty
A few months ago I read of a new social networking site that was lanched : Admish.com
I performed a google search of admish.com and the homepage isn’t anywhere in the top 10 results in google. I found this to be very odd.
As you can see from the search below, admish.com appears to have been heavily penalized. Although over 8000 sources reference the site, the homepage admish.com is nowhere to be found.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=admish&btnG=Search
A search for admish.com also shows nothing:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=admish.com&btnG=Search
Only when you perform a search for the ENTIRE domain http://www.admish.com do you get results:
http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.admish.com&hl=en&filter=0
So at least the site isn’t banned.
The yahoo site explorer tool shows only 320 or so inbound links so that pretty much rules out a penalty triggered by having ‘too many’ links for a new site.
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.admish.com&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=yfp-t-501&fr2=seo-rd-se
A scan of the homepage doesn’t reveal any anomalies that could trigger such a harsh penalty. A review of the html doesn’t show any evidence of search engine gaming such as keyword stuffing.
The cause of this penalty is still a mystery considering there is no compelling and substantial evidence that admish.com has violated any of the google webmaster guidelines.
This is yet further proof of how confounding google can be.
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