Yup, I'd say it's an ego thing.
I have seen this too, even with *no follow sites. I have had to manually request a disallow even when the robots.txt was properly in place.
Not sure I saw: Spelling? Grammar? Page Layout (nav, color, etc)? how the content relates to current events? Does the page have adsense? Does it...
I feel a movement coming on.
one of my sites dissapeared yesterday, was number one, now it's gone. looks like an all out ban as the search for the complete url yeilds 0...
Right now's not a good time to tell. there is something going on with the cache system. today alone i have seen one of my sites witha cache from...
yea i have seen a dance for a couple days now. but recently all the cache's have gone haywire. something definatly going on.
i hate that site. reminds me of a harvard social club. damned snobs.
hey, i work at Burger King. Don't be harshing on my work place!! ;)
good point gford. before that I would have thought along the lines that companies would only advertise for relevant terms. but if you think...
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Ahh, thank you. So this is more a banner add type exchange rather than a text link exchange coop?
lol. yes I would like to know about this as well. :)
What is this coop you speak of? Thanks.
I noticed a bump in a highly competitve keyword search this morning (7/21) I think these changes occur often and unpredictably.
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