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Originally Posted by ravenazrael
Update: No solution yet. However I was told that there was a DMCA claim affecting many sites on February (not the same I posted about some time ago). I never got an e-mail for that. Could google penalize me for that?
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I doubt Google would penalize your website for a single DMCA claim. Did you add any backlinks recently? Did you make any changes to your theme, or any part of your website? Be careful with the sidebar links, a high number of footer or sidebar links can trigger Google?s ?overoptimisation? wrath and keeping them to a minimum would be a rather reasonable thing to do. That said, I would recommend avoiding sidebar and especially footer links as much as possible.