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Hello mozzers ,
We manage a website for a client
This is the website: http://www.mynaughtyscotland.com . [editor's note: site for escorts in Scotland, may not be safe for some workplaces]They recently got penalized but they don't have links so is not a penguin update.The client said that they noticed the drops in rank after they had their Google + account suspended.So the question is, if you have your google + account conected to the website by the rel="publisher" tag,And your google + account gets suspended, will you be getting your site penalized as well ?
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http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/content.html is the list of terms and conditions for Google+. I have heard of a Nevada brothel that also had their G+ account suspended. Could be a content violation, but I don't know, since I've never seen the G+ page.
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Makes sense, it's exactly what I've thought , just want to see if anyone else was confronted this problem and how did he dealt with it.
Thanks for the response Oliver.
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Mind sharing the reason of the suspensions? What was the violation? Perhaps that has something to do with the site...
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Hi
I was reading this article the other day http://moz.com/blog/tips-to-use-google-for-seo which talks about how Google + can help SEO. I have also read in another blog post that if you place a link to your website within a status update and then your post is reposted by someone else on Google + that this is counted as a link by Google and can affect your Page Rank.
It might be that the majority of the page rank that the website did have was from using these kind of tips and from links from within their Google + status updates being re-tweeted and when their Google + Account was suspended then all of the page rank stopped being passed to their website?
Hope that helps.
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Hello Federico,
Thanks for the response, just to make it clear again the site didn't got a penguin penalty, as they didn't had any link to start with, there is no message in the WMT, just that when I enter their google+ account, it has a message saying the account has been suspended due to repeated violations of the terms and conditions. They have a YouTube account which also got suspended as it was on the same google account.
And when this happened all their SERPs dropped and some of them disappeared all together just like a normal penguin penalty would occur.
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Wow, that's a new one. Never heard of a suspended G+ page, and even less about a site penalized because their G+ page was suspended.
Can you give us more background? Why was the page suspended? Have the Webmaster received a manual action noticeable in their WMT?
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