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Are we being penalised by Google?

Just a month ago, we had about 1.7 million TicTap links in Google’s index. Now we are down to less than 1000.

I’m not sure why that should be the case, because we have added more information, and never tried to ‘cheat’ any search engines.

Someone mentioned that it could be because we are an Amazon.com Associate. Perhaps, but why should we be treated differently? We do not cram our pages full of Amazon links, we have also submitted our links to Google Sitemaps, and our logs show that Google crawls a few hundred thousand pages each month.

I have been visiting other Associate sites, and found one called shopireland.ie. A check with Google showed 2.27 million links from that site in Google’s index.

The main difference between them and us is that they serve Google ads, lots of them.

So my question is, are we being penalized because we do not serve Google ads?

My point is not that shopireland.ie is more popular than TicTap, but why so many of their pages are indexed, and ours are not?

This is puzzling and if anyone can offer advice on what we are doing wrong, I’d love to hear them in the comments section. (No registration is required)

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