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Did WidgetBucks Just Got Yanked From The SERPS?

Started by Vlad Zablotskyy · 10 months ago

As I was going to write a follow up on my initial WidgetBucks post, I was surprised to find out that TechCrunch and Problogger ranking in the first and second places for the term “WidgetBucks”. Did someone at Google actually noticed that WidgetBucks was hiding links?
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  • Brian Free

    1 year ago

    I searched for them by: site:www.widgetbucks.com and only a few results show, and their home page isnt one of them. Google certainly busted them for something.
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  • Vlad

    1 year ago

    Brian, all those results appear to be in "flash"- very strange.
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  • CT Moore

    1 year ago

    This is gold...
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  • WidgetBucks Team

    1 year ago

    Just noticed this thread. Google has never had an issue with WidgetBucks, this is a simply miss on the website deployment where we did not properly instrument the site for crawling. So, this is not an issue of being taken off SERPs, this is an SEO/robots.txt oversight.
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  • Vlad

    1 year ago

    Thanks for stopping by to clarify. Hmmm, Why am I not surprised that Google has no problem with the hidden html link in the widget. One blogger out there has raised the question if we can add "nofollow" tag to that link?
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