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.
Related reading:
Google penalties Are Permanent
6 Responses to “Admish.com - A real life example of a google penalty”
Comment from Anonymous
Time December 9, 2007 at 7:33 am
Well, is it an example of a penalty or the google sandbox? (or do you count those as the same thing?) Did you use web position gold or a similar service to see if they ever ranked?
Comment from Jack Rackety
Time December 9, 2007 at 8:09 pm
See if you can get this post to rank number 1 for Admish.
Comment from IE Dude
Time December 9, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I had the same issue with my site a few months ago - it has since come back to normal, but trying to figure out WTF i did wrong was driving me crazy.. and, i didnt have any paid links..
trying to figure out what the big-G is thinking is not easy.
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Time December 12, 2007 at 5:25 pm
[...] Last week I discussed Admish.com possibly being hit with a googe penalty because it didn’t rank in google for its own domain name. My readers speculated that it could have been caused by paid links or the sandbox. But unless google divulges its algo we will never know for sure. [...]
Comment from Gardensnake booming
Time December 13, 2007 at 2:46 am
“trying to figure out what the big-G is thinking is not easy.”
Yes, it is. Just pull up their skirt.
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Comment from SlightlyShadySEO
Time December 9, 2007 at 12:53 am
I think I found the reason. Paid links.
web2null.de would be an example, but a few other looked suspicious? But nothing to warrant that. There appears to be a lot of links, but a lot of those are also the result of the RSS feeds of those kinds of sites.
If not, I’d put my money on the use of landing pages, which they have probably deleted by now.