oldgaga

For all people trying to understand what happened to theporndude.com and why he has been penalized by Google:

I posted all info necessary on this discussion, but the puppets of theporndude.com are trying to create confusion on this thread posting off-topic comments. I kindly ask you to focalize your attention just on the facts and on the proof given to create your own opinion.

RESUME:

For all webmasters that are trying to understand what is happening:

theporndude.com has been penalized and is passed from 4M to 300K visits (semrush.com),

Why?
a)Too much artificial links
b)He uses the "Cloaking AFFILIATE links" functionality to hide the real nature of his links.

E.G.: BrasilTudoLiberado. This site has not reason to be approached as an affiliate, but theporndude.com hides this link to Googlebot because it is in SPANISH (for Google it is not good if you have link to pages in other languages..)

Plus, and also important he hides the link to other websites (which are not AFFLIATES) to don't show to Google that he has too much RECIPROCAL links. He don't says this to his partners and this is the matter of an other thread i posted: https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-pr...-partners.html

"If you’re hiding the true nature of your links so you can send bots to one destination and human users to another, Google considers you cloaking for a malicious reason and will penalize you for doing so. This is also a bad technique, and while it’s harder to catch, it’s still obvious to some bots and will hurt you in the long run.

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Source: How to Properly Cloak Your Affiliate Links

And as Gary Illyes from Google says: "Then Gary said he will say one thing, that the sites impacted by this update should have been because what they are doing are specifically against Google's webmaster guidelines. " (https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...ate-23603.html)

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PLUS, as visibile in this thread some days ago theporndude.com created a question on Reddit to better understand the cause of his penalization. This shows up that theporndude.com perfectly knows that has been penalized.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comment...perts_to_hire/ (meantime theporndude.com deleted this page)
But here is a screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/2ATLxeQdn.png

The fact that he is looking for experts to understand what is the problem affecting his website shows up that he has no idea on how to solve the problem and what are the causes of this penalization. I kindly ask theporndude.com to confirm or to give a clear explanation.