Bigmouthmedia's blog » finance http://blog.bigmouthmedia.com Thoughts from the bigmouths Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:21:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Have Google penalised Beatthatquote.com? http://blog.bigmouthmedia.com/2011/03/08/have-google-penalised-beatthatquote-com/ http://blog.bigmouthmedia.com/2011/03/08/have-google-penalised-beatthatquote-com/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:16:52 +0000 Richard Falconer http://blog.bigmouthmedia.com/?p=174 Yesterday’s announcement that Google had purchased online comparison site beatthatquote.com for $37.7 million caused a bit of a stir online with numerous commentators suggesting Google would be wading further into antitrust territory with the purchase.

Today Aaron Wall from SEO Book wrote an article “outing” various optimisation techniques beatthatquote.com uses which are against Google’s terms of service.  Not least of which is buying links.

We took a of a search on Google for “beatthatquote” (actually “beatatquote” but it shows “beatthatquote”) this morning and saw this:

beatthatquote Google result

I searched again a short time ago and saw:

beatthatquote Google result

Wow! Google seemed to have penalised the site.

Checking where the result had gone, my suspicions seem to be confirmed:

beatthatquote

The results are right underneath Aaron Wall’s original post.  Coincidence?

Richard Falconer

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