(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Recently Google has done a rare thing, it has blacklisted a site from its search listing.
The reason why was it admitted to trying to boost search rankings by exchanging promotional tweets for hyperlinks from bloggers. In other words exploiting/abusing the SEO system. As a result Google has removed the site from its search list.

So how was it done, blog posts were given preapproved messages embedded with links to song lyrics in posts. Building up a series of links to Rap Genius making it appear more often on a range of content boosting its SEO ranking.
Email was leaked online with some employees from Google taking a read, within hours the site was being dropped before being removed.

Google normally only removes stuff as it's advised to by the law, Google polices it SEO system on it's own. Recently Google has updated it SEO program changing the code so it less open to abuse. Google has removed keywords data from being supplied to site owners, so this could be the reason why Rap Genius went ahead at link spam.

The genius plan now means Rap Genius is no longer listed in Google and won't be for some time. Given how a couple search engines use Google to compile results this is going to cripple site traffic.

that's so gay, rap genius is awesome sometimes i google rap song lyrics and rap genius has all the meanings to the song and everything, we'll just have to use the url for now.

They have rapgenius.fr in the Google listings now, which redirects to rapgenius.com lol.

Ehh I don't like rap but it seems to be a helpful site for those who like rap

Wow... I liked rap genius too.. they had some good lyrics to songs that I mostly wanted to look up. Now I will have to use another site :cry: oh joy.

You can still use the site... You will just have to go directly to the site, instead of Google'ing it

I know... I just loved to Google it because it was almost the first site with the exact results I wanted :p. Doubt it will still be the first result now, probably another site.

Google just keeps doing fucking up shit I use. AHHH

Lol yeah Ron & I were talking about this in the SB, it's funny and fucked up, but I think they'll survive.