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Google’s Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team at the search engine giant, posted on Google+<\/a>\u00a0an answer to the crazy day we had at Advice Interactive<\/strong> over our proud Page 1 rankings<\/strong> for our clients and ourselves (Dallas SEO<\/a>) slipping into SERP oblivion:<\/p>\n

I saw a recent post where several sites were asking about their search rankings. The short explanation is that it turns out that our classifier for parked domains was reading from a couple files which mistakenly were empty. As a result, we classified some sites as parked when they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I apologize for this; it looks like the issue is fixed now, and we\u2019ll look into how to prevent this from happening again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Google has made it no secret they target parked domains<\/strong> and promise to drop them in rankings. The mistake by Google is fixed, at least for our clients, and our Page 1 rankings have returned. The “over-optimization penalty”<\/strong> still may be coming this year but we do not anticipate this causing such a stir for us or our clients as Advice Interactive Group prides itself on adhering to best practices<\/strong> and working alongside Google to provide the best results possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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