Google’s Mysterious Position Six Penalty - Fact Or Fiction?
The Position 6 Penalty; mystery solved.
One of the most recent Google theories floating through the forums is the “position six penalty.” The signs of being hit by a “position six penalty” is when you see your number one or two rankings shift downwards to position number six in Google. Many people first started noticing this happening in mid-to-late December. - by Barry Schwartz, searchengineland.com
from MattCutts 21 days ago #
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+ -When Barry asked me about “position 6″ in late December, I said that I didn’t know of anything that would cause that. But about a week or so after that, my attention was brought to something that could exhibit that behavior. We’re in the process of changing the behavior; I think the change is live at some datacenters already and will be live at most data centers in the next few weeks.
In general if you think a site might have a penalty (perhaps from past behavior) and you think the site is clean presently, you can do a reconsideration request in our webmaster console to ask Google to take another look at the site. - sphinn.com
In my book, that is not an admission of a penalty, more like a bug in the algorithm or filters.
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