Yesterday began periodic Google page rank update. This Oes Tsetnoc site got PR 3 which is big reward for my efforts in the first month of this search engine optimization contest. Site position on serps is in dispute, because official results are showing that we are on second place, however many of my friends saying that they see me in first place. Me personally when looking logged out from Google see first position. Hope that until end of the contest I will gain authority that we will be first without regional differences.
Google show 168 000 indexed page which means that we will not pass even 500 000 indexed pages until end of the Oes Tsetnoc seo contest.
I never experienced penalties from Google in all my online career. Maybe sandbox one or two times but that I don”t consider as a penalty. Since I never experienced them I never thought that penalties really exists or everything is coincidence. Yesterday I was on this thread and realized that this site maybe got -30 penalty for low quality backlinks. Cases are simply to similar. This page was on number 6 at Google, then I started link building campagn and asked my friends to give me backlinks. In the short time at least 15 people responded giving me massive amount of mostly forum signatures, few hours later my entry dropped for exactly 30 positions from position 6 to position 36. After that until now my Oes Tsetnoc entry flawed between positions 32 and 39, and this morning is on position 42.
Am I being paranoic or this penalty things really exists? How can webmaster control backlinks, if this is true then you can easily cause penalty to your opponents?
Or maybe this only work for new and young sites, which means that penalty if exists will be lifter? I am not sure what to do, to slow down linking process because of this
or to continue as nothing happened?
I would appreciate your words for this issue, since I am completely on a unknown territory.