I know I just emailed you a couple days ago, but something
happened that I thought you might want to know about. This
has NEVER happened to me in the history of my online career,
so I was a bit shocked.

One of my websites has been banned by Google.

I haven't a clue why it happened. In fact, I didn't even
know that it had happened until my friend, Derrick Pizur
sent me a private message yesterday asking me about it.

Well, very surprised, I checked it out. I saw that I had no
PageRank and when I tried to look for pages from the website
in Google -- there were none. The site had completely
disappeared form Google.

I did some investigation and discovered it must have
happened on May 21, 2005 because my visitors instantly went
from about 700-800 per day all the way down to 200-250. This
site made half-decent coin through Google AdSense and
affiliate programs, so you'd think I would have noticed.

Fact of the matter is - I didn't notice. I had no clue.
I've been busy over the past few weeks and wasn't looking
into my individual site stats. All I knew was that my
overall income remained steady, so I saw no reason for
concern.

Let me ask you this question. If your website suddenly
lost 500 - 600 visitors per day, what would it do to your
bottom line? Even though I'm hoping you'll say it wouldn't
affect you much, I'm guessing for most people, this would be
a huge hit to their profitability. :-(

So, what's the lesson? Well, clearly - don't put all your
marketing eggs in one basket. Whether it's just having one
promotion method for your business or just relying on one
website to build your riches...diversify and continue to
build.

Of course, if you're just starting out you need to
concentrate your efforts to get your 1st project
profitable...but never use one method to drive traffic to
that project. If one traffic source dies, make sure your
business doesn't die along with it.

It makes me think about the 'Shocking Report' that has been
circulating for a week or two from Jason Potash about people
dropping like flies of search engines. If you haven't had a
chance to look at, I recommend you do so.

And please note - my site wasn't even one of those auto-
generated junk pages Jason talks about in the report. It was
a site full of good and useful content and yet Google
decided to obliterate me...so don't think it can't happen to
good people like you and I.

Here's the report in PDF format:
http://www.aliceseba.com/trafficreport.pdf

I'm posting this on my blog too, so feel free to drop by and
make a comment.
http://www.aliceseba.com


All the best,
Alice Seba
Your Friend & Partner in Online Success

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