Hi everyone. Pls I have a couple of sites. I can classify myself as a SEO student at least. If not a master. In 2009, someone had a site built. It was a smear site. Site he called ratemygrear.ie. Target; www.repairtech.ie. Repairtech.ie is one of my sites. . I found the site a couple of weeks after it went live.  I contacted the person by email after a thorough digging. He was based in Cork city. I told him that I will be suing him as the information he posted to corroborate his smear campaign were utterly false. By the following day, he took down the site. But I didn't get to know who commissioned him.

Now I know that there are some people who are still very clanish and they do have a very specific idea about who should be doing business in this country. They often call us on the phone to rant. Their idea of who should be doing business here obviously does not include someone like me. what i fear is that one of these haters may be an employee of Google.  It will be a lamentable development!

This year, 2012, early in the year, i employed a tactic on my new sites; www.applecare.ie, www.repairtech.ie,. After weeks of late night work, they were live. Page 1 on most keywords. Then systematically, even before Penguin disaster, my sites were removed from organic  search result.  I would work on a keyword for days, nurse it to page 1, as soon as it get there, day 1, day 2, by day 3, OUT. And then later, no matter what i do at all, nothing,, just nothing at all.  Out of frustration, i opened an adword account. That was for Applecare.ie when i did, applecare appeared briefly. for about 4 days, and then it was gone. Even from google local.

Has anyone an idea of what is happening? I have done all possible. No progress till late.