Site Banned / How to tell?

[AcidMaX]

Originally posted by Bill
The more I read about this, the more I'm thinking that Linkster could be on the right track.

That this is not a traditional penalty like a pure dupe penalty, that this might be the work of the new meta refresh trick.

The leading clue is the change in PR. The new meta refresh trick does, apparently, kill the original pages pr, in the same way that a refresh traditionally does, but backwards, if you follow my meaning.

I guess the way to tell is to pick a unique string of text on your index page, and search for it with quotes. If you find it on a page that isn't yours in the google serps, chances are you are the victim of the meta refresh trick.

Apparently it allows you to truly steal pagerank.

If some of the trades are with other sites they have that have changed, and are now refreshed/ redirected. Ie., they had site A running and they moved all that traffic to site B. However this site only has a hard link trade with site A that is now refreshed to site B. Could this be the problem (I hope that makes sense). I know they have changed some of their sites recently and bought other sites that they wanted the traffic for and refreshed them to their new site. Just wondering if this might be the issue.

Sorry for all the evasiveness at the moment, just trying to keep their info private as much as possible since they are a client.

Andy