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My site was a PR 5 and now is unranked?
Hi JT. Here's how I found the nastiness. I looked at your url on Open Site Explorer and clicked on "Anchor Text". This shows you how your site is linked to. The 6th most popular anchor text was "buy cheap viagra online" and the seventh was "buy cheap software". I expanded the first one and saw the urls linking to you and clicked on one. Then, when I was on that page, I did a CTRL-F to search for your site. I also searched for the words "buy cheap viagra online". My CTRL-F told me that the words did exist on the page but I couldn't find them. So, I did a view source. (I'm using chrome, so I just right clicked and chose view source.) I can't remember exactly what the issue was but I believe they were positioning the words so that they are off of the screen. As far as removal goes, it may be a good idea to start a new question on this one. Perhaps title it, "My site has 'buy viagra' links pointing at it that I didn't create! How do I get them removed?" I have never had to deal with such an issue so I'm not sure how you would do it. You can certainly try to find contact info for the URL but I'm doubtful that they're going to talk to you. I do believe that you can file an reinclusion request with Google and explain the situation and they may listen. But I'd want to get more advice on that before I did it. Also, set up your webmaster tools now! You may not get a message, but I have heard of sites that set up WMT and 1-2 days later the unnatural links warning pops up. At least then, you'll know what you're dealing with. Good luck!
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