Google has declined to comment on what specifically happened, which is out of character given that they generally make a big splash with public penalties such as JCPenney, BuildMyRank, and others. The well-covered Interflora Google penalty was...
If your link building efforts were centered on SENuke and the BuildMyRank blog network, then say so. Receiving an email like this is scary. At best, your business won’t receive any organic search traffic from Google for weeks.
High Risk : Low Reward Link Building: Includes automated link building programs like SENuke and utilizing link networks like BuildMyRank.com. Link building has always been a risk:reward proposition. This continues to be true in 2013.
BuildMyRank) have been devalued. When those of us in search marketing talk and write about link building, we tend to use terms that we think are very commonly understood. We bandy around phrases like "CTR on page 1 of the SERPs is better than on...
Some high profile Blog networks were de-indexed entirely from the Google database in March, including the now infamous BuildMyRank blog network. Google took down a business called “BuildMyRank. Small business owners already live on the edge, often...
Maybe that algorithm was as simple as a list of sites that received links from BuildMyRank. Let's accept the argument for the moment that it was due to participation in link based blog networks, or even just BuildMyRank.
The hardest hit so far, if you can judge by the buzz on the web, are blog networks like BuildMyRank (which is actually shutting down). In their closing announcement, BuildMyRank gave clients the option of deleting all of their links.
