Real Estate Webmaster (REW) agents websites reportedly penalized by Google

So much for this being all about Advanced Access sites. Reportedly, many Real Estate Webmaster (REW) sites have now taken the fall. And on the heels of that, LinkURealty templates, and now most recently, AgentImage sites are reporting penalties.

An penalized Advanced Access user informed me that by removing his state pages and doing a reinclusion request, his site is starting to appear again in the Google SERPs (only 2 weeks post-penalty). I would think that this approach would work for other affected template sites.

8 comments:

  1. Rabbit, Monday, May 14, 2007, 12:19 pm EDT

    You are mis representing REW and forming Facts out of Fiction that you have pieced together from your own imagination. Dont jumble words of other people and dont post about things you have no idea about.

     
  2. Kip Draper, Monday, May 14, 2007, 12:31 pm EDT

    >>Dont jumble words of other people and dont post about things you have no idea about

    Perhaps you’d like to be more specific instead of posting feeble cheerleader garbage?

     
  3. Rabbit, Monday, May 14, 2007, 12:46 pm EDT

    REW has tried to help numerous AA sites and others who do not have REW sites, and you mis quoted one of our Mods, “REW moderator who told me they had been told not to talk about it.” Very Mis quoted. Our Mod likely has a record of what she said to you and that was not what she said.

     
  4. Kip Draper, Monday, May 14, 2007, 01:07 pm EDT

    you mis quoted one of our Mods, “REW moderator who told me they had been told not to talk about it.” Very Mis quoted. Our Mod likely has a record of what she said to you and that was not what she said

    Ah, you work for REW. Although I never quoted anyone, trust me dude, that is exactly what “she” (you’ve obviously done your homework here) said.

    Well please post that record. Of course I have no record since it was sticky so let’s see if you’re forthright here.

    REW has tried to help numerous AA sites and others who do not have REW sites

    That’s the problem. You’re not trying to publicly help hurting REW sites. That’s all I’m trying to do.

    PS: REW internal referrals are all over my network’s logs so you obviously know by now I am not a direct competitor. REW sites taking a sustained hit would most likely only benefit me.

     
  5. Kip Draper, Monday, May 14, 2007, 04:25 pm EDT

    These poor naive new site owners, now penalized by Google, never saw the storm coming

    That’s also a simple but poignant point. I know of a local webmaster that used to post at REW (but hasn’t for a long time) that totally relies upon state pages in that network; he/she hasn’t taken the fall. Are there any REW sites that were hit where an agent never participated in the ‘community’ but unknowingly (innocently) bought into the state pages package?

     
  6. SEO Angel, Monday, May 14, 2007, 05:11 pm EDT

    Hey Kip, The person called Rabbit is Auliya Andreassen a member of the REW team. All the above sentences by Kip is true. While I understand his people’s loyalty, people had been screaming to him of what was to come for a year. Oh well I think I said I told you so one too many times already.

     
  7. Wesley, Sunday, July 29, 2007, 11:27 pm EDT

    Hello, I am from LinkURealty and we have not had any reports of penalties in Google for our websites. We have checked up on several of our clients with existing rankings on Google and have not seen any affect. This is mostly because our clients don’t use state pages, nor does our website offer this type of link directory.

    I am interested to hear where I can research further on this and where you recieved the information that our websites was being penalized.

     
  8. Casey Appoen, Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 10:48 am EDT

    Reciprocal linking only creates a false impression that a site may have a larger audience than it does. Without regularly changing media and editorial most real estate websites have little return traffic. It is much better to link to a local newspapers, blog or online news website for example that has changing editorial rather than linking to another real estate hub.

     

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