Google has been combatting link spam for years now, but just a week or two ago they cracked down: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1777.html

God bless them and now if they take about.com and wikipedia from all the first results that would be blessing from the sky.

I don't know about about.com but I love my wiki results.

I do not believe that one website should control the information plus Wiki is not reliable source. I can't be sure if what I am reading is truth. Lots of details are misleading. For example when I was reading stuff about my own country and area I live in...I was like really wow I didn't know that. Some tourist probably been here and heard or read something and decided to write about it on Wikipedia. There is reason why professors at colleges do not allow citations from Wikipedia. I know you would say well why don't edit the page...well I just don't have time to write for free on Wikipedia.

But main issues is control of information and power in hands of few to decide what is proper information. The power goes along with Google and their powerful decisions to decide that Wikipedia has more information about my country then our Natural Resources Website. I am not saying that it is not nice to have "free" encyclopedia but it is also not nice to take business from small companies. Wikipedia to me is something like corporation of information ruining the small guys. Some people really go into extremes:

http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/


My point is that Google took safe way of giving the search results, but safe is not always the best. My opinion of course. I am not trying to influence anyones ideas of free world.

I agree since we change our signatures links and updated our blogs from time to time...

> I can't be sure if what I am reading is truth.
I don't believe that Wikipedia is any less trustworthy than anything else on the web. In fact, I would put more faith into an article that was jointly written by many, many people, and receives a lot of traffic, and so if something is wrong there is a good chance it will be caught by an expert, than an article that was written who-knows-when by a single person.

This is rediculous.
I had around 45,000 pages on google index until last week.
Now it is going down. it dropped to 35,000 then to 12,000 and now only 8000.
Now I think "Was it worth spending 2 months on SEO project ?"
No doubt it showed me good result and increased the traffic from 100 to 900 visits per day but again it is going down as google dose not show my website in search result as it used to.
I hope google re-index my website soon.

Also checking on google webmasters tool, it showed no problem with content of my website.


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Only 7000 now.......
Any suggestions ?????
Please I need help with this issue.........