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But aside from operating from their side, they also consider signals from user removal requests. The best way to understand this, as Danny Sullivan mentioned, is when a site received multiple valid user removal requests for their pages, Google takes this as a signal that the whole website may contain non-compliant pages which will demote the overall rankings/authority/trustworthiness of the website. Here’s the full example used by Danny Sullivan: “…when we receive a high volume of valid copyright removal requests from a given site, we are able to use that as a quality signal and demote the site in our results. We’ve developed similar approaches for sites whose pages we’ve removed under our voluntary policies.
the removals, but also scalably fight against the issue in other cases.” Our Experience on Having Our Content Removed From the Search Results Since SEO Hacker is primarily an SEO Agency located in the Philippines, it’s normal for us to have experienced either our CY Lists own pages or even our client’s pages suddenly being removed from the search results. But one of the most memorable instances where our content was removed from the search results is not because we violated a local law or Google’s policies but because we were experiencing problems with our servers for one of our clients.

The client mentioned was already successful wherein their landing pages were already ranking first for highly beneficial and relevant keywords and a constantly increasing visitor count. After we noticed that the servers were having problems (we needed to reload pages multiple times for them to open), the rankings for this client suddenly dropped by 2-3 pages. So from ranking number 1 in the search results, our rankings dropped to the 2nd page, approaching the 3rd page of the search results. Here’s the graph of the ranking movement: Keyword Rankings Movement After thorough investigation, we noticed that the drops came from our landing pages being removed from the search results.
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