Matt Cutts Really Lays it on the Line - Today

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If you request an answer from Google as to WHY a site has disappeared - you might be ignored, but if you ask MATT - well you'd better be prepared for frank reactions from Him and his Readers that may make you :behindsof http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-not-checking-your-site/

[randfish]

That's a beauty. And it should serve to help point webmasters who ask for help but think that these tactics aren't "against" the rules.

Still, blaming the link dropping on the site owner may be inaccurate - I've seen crappy spammy links that I've never toucehd start pointing to my sites...

[! search-engines-web]

HE referrs to it as LINK DROPPING - but it is just putting links to your partner or alternate sites to also help them out.

SO WHAT !

Link Bombing is what She Thought others had done to her.
Do a search on google yahoo and MSN for Failure (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=failure) - so, that strategy must still work!

[cbin]

There was a misunderstanding with one of the sites in Matt Cutts Blog where he was saying there was spammy keywords on the page but one of the readers mistook it for him saying spammy URLs. What is your feedback for Keywords in URL's has anyone had a site they feel was specifically hurt/banned for too many keywords in the URL. I have a few situtions where I feel I may have exceeded the limits and inturn tripped the sand box, but after 6 months or so was released and has top rankings for quite some time now.

If I am pretty convinced that the urls are what tripped the sand box, should I look to go back and change the Urls from /keyword-phrase-prices to /prices to avoid any future hits in the Google Serps. I have had top page rankings for a while, but I don't want to can't get comforatable.

Any suggestions or real examples from experiance are greatly appreciated.

[rustybrick]

I am not sure what you mean by "ripped the sand box". A sandbox can not be tripped or started. It is something most new sites start out in. An old site can not be sandboxed.

[cbin]

Well what happend was I had a site that was PR 4 and number 12 for its biggest keyword that had gone live early in 05 (which is in a very small market under 200k results) I changed the urls, done a couple directory links some minor back links, nothing overly agressive. During Jagger it went to page 5 and further in the results for the different keyword variations.

If the urls didn't do it the only other thing I can up with is my designer didn't take out the old urls and they were also live with the exact same content, during the update. So that all of them were in googles index.

Do you think that is what hurt me?

Either way do you have any specific info I should follow on Keywords in URL's?

Thanks

[rustybrick]

When did you change the URLs? That can always hurt a site bad.

[cbin]

Thanks,

is there general guidlines you go buy when naming URL file names, that I should follow from now on for new sites, I think on old sites I will always just keep them the same.

CBIN