Comments on: SEO and SEDD – the possibility of malicious deranking http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/ SEO weblog Fri, 02 May 2008 21:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: PlugIM.com http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-376 PlugIM.com Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:47:50 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-376 <strong>SEDD - Can this be done?...</strong> Is it at all possible to derank a third-party website or it's another scare?... SEDD – Can this be done?…

Is it at all possible to derank a third-party website or it’s another scare?…

]]> By: LZZR » What a SEDD coincidence! http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-283 LZZR » What a SEDD coincidence! Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:16:19 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-283 [...] coincidence! It’s been just a couple of days since I had written about the possibility of SEDD and what a coincidence! In my post I was talking about Bad Neghbourhood and precisely this happened [...] [...] coincidence! It’s been just a couple of days since I had written about the possibility of SEDD and what a coincidence! In my post I was talking about Bad Neghbourhood and precisely this happened [...]

]]> By: lzzr http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-268 lzzr Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:32:32 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-268 It is indeed hard to say. Your site looks pretty decent. At first I was thinking about <em><tag>Bad Neighbourhood</tag></em> and checked your backlinks. They all seem pretty ok. It could well be that you are simply experiencing "<tag>Google Sandbox effect</tag>" (if there is such thing of course). Seemingly, very fresh sites do well for about 3 to 6 weeks and tend to sink down rapidly and rather abruptly (sometimes disappearing completely for a week or so) after which only gradually and slowly gaining back where they were over several months. The good thing is that if everything goes fine they continue growing slowly but steadily above the initial level. It's a waiting game, you know. ;-) If you are still worried, check your server logs. If you've been SEDDed is must show up there. You will notice either unusual traffic from one single IP, or a massive amount of strange referrers. Anything unusual you notice should be investigated (as always). Ultimately, work on your linking strategy - you definetly need more good backlinks and a couple of really good ones can neutralise almost any SEDD attempts! It is indeed hard to say. Your site looks pretty decent. At first I was thinking about Bad Neighbourhood and checked your backlinks. They all seem pretty ok.
It could well be that you are simply experiencing “Google Sandbox effect” (if there is such thing of course).
Seemingly, very fresh sites do well for about 3 to 6 weeks and tend to sink down rapidly and rather abruptly (sometimes disappearing completely for a week or so) after which only gradually and slowly gaining back where they were over several months. The good thing is that if everything goes fine they continue growing slowly but steadily above the initial level.
It’s a waiting game, you know. ;-)
If you are still worried, check your server logs. If you’ve been SEDDed is must show up there. You will notice either unusual traffic from one single IP, or a massive amount of strange referrers. Anything unusual you notice should be investigated (as always).
Ultimately, work on your linking strategy – you definetly need more good backlinks and a couple of really good ones can neutralise almost any SEDD attempts!

]]> By: Paul Stringer http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-257 Paul Stringer Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:54:24 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/google/seo-and-sedd-the-possibility-of-malicious-deranking/#comment-257 I believe my site hs experienced SEDD, as you call it. I am currently being victimised by a competitor so it is no great surprise. This is what happened. Business is slow so I go check how my site is doing on google, I keep a record on excel. I have a fixed set of search terms, I record the ranking every so often, the ranking had been stable for a month up to end of November. Site is fairly new, most important pages rank on pages 1, 2, or 3. When I check, my pages don't show up, except for one which was exactly where it was a month before. If I check through enough pages on google other less relevent pages on my site eventually show up, but not the correct, relevent page. Even when I prefix the search term with my company/website name the relevent page is not returned, just less relevent pages like dates, fees etc For the exclusion of pages to be so specific it surely has to be targeted to each page. What I would like to know is how I find out who did it. I have spoken to many people, emailed google etc to no avail. I believe my site hs experienced SEDD, as you call it.

I am currently being victimised by a competitor so it is no great surprise.

This is what happened.

Business is slow so I go check how my site is doing on google, I keep a record on excel.

I have a fixed set of search terms, I record the ranking every so often, the ranking had been stable for a month up to end of November.

Site is fairly new, most important pages rank on pages 1, 2, or 3.

When I check, my pages don’t show up, except for one which was exactly where it was a month before.

If I check through enough pages on google other less relevent pages on my site eventually show up, but not the correct, relevent page.

Even when I prefix the search term with my company/website name the relevent page is not returned, just less relevent pages like dates, fees etc

For the exclusion of pages to be so specific it surely has to be targeted to each page.

What I would like to know is how I find out who did it.
I have spoken to many people, emailed google etc to no avail.

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