Two Weeks Later, Google Lifts Ban On BeatThatQuote

By Barry Schwartz

Published: March 22, 2011 at 9:49 am

Google Beatthatquote Banned Google acquired BeatThatQuote.com on March 7th, then the day after, Google penalized BeatThatQuote for violating the Google Webmaster guidelines.

Guess what? BeatThatQuote has apparently been un-penalized by Google just two weeks after first being penalized. A search for their name in Google once again returns them at the top result:

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Is two weeks long enough? Remember Google’s How & When Ranking Penalties Are Removed post? Do you think Google was penalized long enough or do you think because Google owns them they were given priority?

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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