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By: 131 Star Bloggers and Their Best Posts | Catherine Lawson

131 Star Bloggers and Their Best Posts | Catherine Lawson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:39 +0000

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By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:36:01 +0000

The ideas and insights are very worth reading. You really gave me valuable information. Thanks for sharing it!

By: Asia'h Epperson

Asia'h Epperson — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:12:32 +0000

I do “Backlinks from forum signatures”, “Backlinks from Blog Commenting” and free directory submission.

Most of the links that are gone is mainly from “Top Commentator”.

I think you are right. My site is wiped out of keywords ranking, but, not banned.

Just hope that this will be temporary.

Thanks anyway.

By: SEO Optimization

SEO Optimization — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:04:49 +0000

Hello Asia’h,
“Some of the points” is not really of a big help for me to understand what you have actually done and what might have gone wrong.

Even tho the keyword “Asia’h Epperson” is not that competitive (only 43k sites respond on that keyword query) I still don’t see you on the first 100 results in Google.

I did not took much time to look at your site, but most of the links that result pointing to your site are not pointing (anymore). But from what I see your site has been wiped out of the rankings for keywords like “asiah epperson, asia’h epperson, asiah epperson rocks” which would make me think of a possible penalization in rankings (and this does not mean your site is banned since it responds to site: query).

What I can notice is that you have also an excessive use of your name all over the site, titles, URL etc, I would recommend you slow down with that a bit and build some more links.

Hope this helps

By: Asia'h Epperson

Asia'h Epperson — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:29:53 +0000

I did some of your points on my site. The site initially rank well for my name in google and moved to page 1. Then somehow it drops off. Today, it is totally off the SERPs, funny thing is if I do site:asiaheppersonrock.blogspot.com, it did results.

Based on your experience, what happens?