it’s google.
G&C is an “authority site” or whatever they categorize this like, and it is steady in the serps. I haven’t tweaked SEO in over 2 years. I just add what I like, name it for what it is and google does with it what it wants to.
It’s also because I work like a bastard to make sure not a single player lands at a casino where they can’t play. I update like a maniac. Players always come back (80%) for current info.
Talking about google, I think they are trying stuff out on G&C, I have no other explanation.
Backlinks should be around 1000. With all the blackhatters riding on my back they are usually shown in the tens of thousands. The other day I showed 200, then 600, it fluctuates wildly.
It has going on 6000 indexed pages, and now I see 600 and no supplemementals.
All the serps I can find (there are too many to keep track) are still in the same places.
The traffic hasn’t changed.
It looks like they are changing their stats regarding the site while leaving the serps alone.
All the blackhatters have dropped off.
Somehow I think I got picked for experimentation with filters to clean shit up, and so they don’t destroy the guinea pig they seperated their stats from the actual serps. I have heard of no one else who shows this behavior by google at this time.
For a long time I reported spamdexers regularly, almost daily, openly telling google about G&C and using it as an example. I sent in lists and lists of offending URLs. I gave them contact info. I was tireless. They never contacted me, but after a while they would periodically wipe the blackhatters off my back, and they fixed all the google bombing I got back then too.
I’m thinking maybe that got them studying the blackhatters riding on G&C and that is what this is all about. Just a toy for them to play with and study results. Probably gambling attracts the most blackhatters and G&C attracts the majority of those.
Anyway, thats the only explanation I can come up with. I about shit when I saw how few pages were indexed.
Google is more powerful than god it looks like. They can make and break you in a minute, they don’t even have to pass laws or answer to anyone about it.