Comments on: Google and Bans = Strange things happen

By: Ned Carey

Ned Carey — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:21:03 +0000

Ben commented:
>Google is easy on the trigger with websites built strictly for monetization without bringing anything useful to the end user.

I think Ben meant quick on the trigger but I agree.

I don’t know anything about BANS but I see in your post is seems to be a business in a box to be an eBay affiliate. So from Google’s perspective how much value are these sites adding to their searchers?

By: Harvey

Harvey — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:13:43 +0000

This is precisely the reason why developers don’t like Google. We don’t know what arbitrary penalties they have on any site or page and it is clear that they do apply weird penalties. They probably won’t show you because they would get sued if they did.

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:58:08 +0000

i don’t use adsense on my bans sites….

By: Scot

Scot — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:15:40 +0000

Someone came to me telling me they got their Adsense account banned for using it on a BANS site. Please be careful here.

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:57:55 +0000

is is a stand alone site with bans or do you use WP+bans combination?

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:57:06 +0000

so far my experience with wp+bans sites isn’t going very well

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:56:01 +0000

Google is killing thin affiliate sites. I agree with this measure. But it seems google is completely failing this. Every day i find a site that is a thin affiliate site with no content what so ever, but rank well for the search terms i use… Stores well developed get penalyzed… It’s strange… almost like a paradox…

By: Danny Cooper

Danny Cooper — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:52:51 +0000

The same thing happened to me. I have a really valuable domain but now it is de-indexed thanks to BANS.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:59:11 +0000

Yea people have been up about this for a bit now. It does seem that blog+bans is the trick…for now.

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:52:16 +0000

It doesn’t surprise me at all. Google is easy on the trigger with websites built strictly for monetization without bringing anything useful to the end user. They killed a lot of MFA (Made for Adsense) websites a while ago and now will probably do the same with BANS website…