The same thing happened to us as well. When I did an event last month our page rank dropped from 4 to 2 despite getting 12+ new links, which I strongly suspect is because all of the bloggers who link to our conference site are having their blogs duplicated by content farms. Overall our page rank has dropped from 7 to 2 in little over a year, despite having 10x more inbound links. (And zero SEO or anything else that would violate Google's best practices.)
I did ask a Google employee, who said it was because we weren't using canonical tags, but this doesn't make much sense and fixing this doesn't seem to have done anything to improve the situation.
In the original post, he used a very specific query and his site was listed 2nd. Naturally the scrapers were also all over that results page, since they were all exact matches to the text. I didn't see anything about him complaining about poor search ranking (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=0bb...)
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The same thing happened to us as well. When I did an event last month our page rank dropped from 4 to 2 despite getting 12+ new links, which I strongly suspect is because all of the bloggers who link to our conference site are having their blogs duplicated by content farms. Overall our page rank has dropped from 7 to 2 in little over a year, despite having 10x more inbound links. (And zero SEO or anything else that would violate Google's best practices.)
I did ask a Google employee, who said it was because we weren't using canonical tags, but this doesn't make much sense and fixing this doesn't seem to have done anything to improve the situation.
The article above is about his problems getting an AdWords campaign approved, not about his ranking in search results.
Those problems are one and the same. He can't get an adwords campaign approved for the same reason his search results rank poorly, he's being scraped.
In the original post, he used a very specific query and his site was listed 2nd. Naturally the scrapers were also all over that results page, since they were all exact matches to the text. I didn't see anything about him complaining about poor search ranking (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=0bb...)