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Google’s Matt Cutts has acknowledged the existence of a ‘Position 6′ Google penalty and claimed that the problem should now be fixed. As reported on various websites, the penalty was causing websites with a number one or two ranking to drop down to position number six.
Many people first noticed the drop in rankings in mid to late December through discussion on Webmaster World. A forum administrator compiled…
Talk about a new secret Google penalty is heating up over at Webmaster World forums, with some users complaining of a 30 spot ranking drop in just one day.
The thread starts with a poster upset over a sudden ranking drop,
“I just got my site rank #31 on its own domain name and bunch of keywords/phrases I usually watch were bumped from #1 to “precisely #31. Those…