Well, This Is Depressing (aka Google Analytics for SE Traffic to LOR)

[ecchi]

I think they might have at last realised that LOR is a link list (they do not like link lists - you are the competition).

Or it could possibly be that they see the links you post in the "What Are You Working On" thread as "using the boards to spam links" and have penalised you for this.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by ecchi

I think they might have at last realised that LOR is a link list (they do not like link lists - you are the competition).

They realized that in August of 2007. Up until then, I was getting 10's of 1,000's of hits a day from them, if not more! I wonder if I had Analytics on LOR back then? I'll have to look...

Originally Posted by ecchi

Or it could possibly be that they see the links you post in the "What Are You Working On" thread as "using the boards to spam links" and have penalised you for this.

So you think it took them 48 hours from the time of this post on March 5th to basically wipe me out of their results?

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I keep thinking that I really have nothing to post in these thread because I'm mostly just updating & tinkering...then I remembered that I could let the world know each time a category gets a Gutting Of LOR makeover!

So yesterday, I converted the following category pages to the new snazzy look:
Links to Anime Porn by Greenguy
Links to Black BBWs by Greenguy

...actually, I think I did those Tuesday, but it's not like it really matters. I mean, this thread has always been about legal ing

Maybe it was my "legal ing" comment?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

So you think it took them 48 hours from the time of this post on March 5th to basically wipe me out of their results?

Maybe it was my "legal ing" comment?

I doubt if it was any comment. If it was your links posted on the board that got you shit canned (big "if", I'm not saying it is, I'm saying it is a possibility) it would be a numbers thing. Their ranking software will assume that a small number of links from boards, blogs, etc. may be genuine recommendations, so ++ your ranking. A larger number get ignored as probable spam or friends trying to help out. But go over a certain number of links on the boards/blogs/etc. and the software decides you are a black hat link spammer and hammers your rating right down. Does not have to be links posted on those days, the links may have been up a while, but their spider hit this board over those two days, counted the links it found, and that may have put you over the limit.

If your stats program for this board identifies Googlebot hits (by IP) then look see if it was sniffing around the board just before LOR got demoted.