Back in March 2013, Google seeing reports in various “black hat” SEO forums that their web site rankings in Google have dramatically fallen overnight. It seems, based on the reports I am reading, that the commonality between all the websites is that they were all using a link network named SAPE. SAPE was previously targeted by Google in March 2013, but they revamped their system and quickly became a network many link schemers used.
It is hard to say if Google did actually go after a specific link network. Google typically does not comment about these situations. We have emailed Google for a comment.
If I had to guess, I’d think this is related to the harsher penalties Google promised to issue to webmasters who have repeated violations. But none of these webmasters have confirmed receiving a manual action in their Google Search Console yet. This could also be related to the hacked sites algorithm or maybe Google is about to release a new Penguin update – we know it is expected pretty soon.
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