Originally posted by Classics
The .md sites are the easiest ones for people to notice. Tens of thousands of links from their own tens of thousands of self-generated pages had them at the top of everything, but now they have mostly fallen a few dozen spots.
Dropped? Yes but not much!
Still #2 for “Video Poker”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=video+poker
Dropped to #9 for “slots”
http://www.google.com/search?q=slots&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1
Their parent site for “online casinos” is still at #7
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=online+casinos
They dropped because they removed all the internal cross-linking. They had removed the thousands of non-sense travel links prior to even obtaining the placement in the SERPs.
Notice that the #1 spot for most of these terms are now occupied by another site(s) using the same crosslinking scheme that worked for the .md sites.
Excessive internal crosslinking should be penalized and not rewarded!
I have stated since the first sight of “Florida” SERPs that this is in fact a commercial “FILTER” – You will not change my mind – least not yet. Clearly connected to “competitive terms” Just count the number of AdWord ads on a search – if its more than 5-6 its most likely going to be ran through the filter! If the search Terms/phrases are on SERPs with 3 pages of AdWords IT WILL be ran through the filter with out a doubt.
Make me think otherwise 