Webmasters in an online webmaster forum observed an anomaly in Google’s results that might indicate a new Google penalty. Which websites have been penalized and could this affect SEO of your own website?
What has happened?
Many webmasters reported that their websites lost all of their top positions on Google and dropped to position 50 and below.
The problem is that the usual metrics shows that the websites are okay. For example, one of the websites was older than two years, the inbound links did not change and the Google PageRank in Google’s toolbar also did not change. Another penalized website was older than 10 years.
Why have these websites been penalized?