Pandalized - Scrap the Site and Start a New One?

[rimam1]

My site seems to be stuck. Not sure if it's penalized or Pandalized, but it went from having multiple page 1 (above the fold) rankings, to virtually none... I'm at the bottom of page 1 for just one term.

I'm thinking of scrapping the site and creating a new one. But in addition to focusing on SEO, I'm going to engage my niche with viral link bait posts, an edgy domain name and tagline, guest posts and forum posts in my industry, advertising via private ezines and newsletters, building an email list, doing contests, etc.

I've focused too much solely on search engine traffic. And while that's been really good, big G seems to not like my site very much. It's been a pretty bland blog, just trying to capitalize on search engine traffic and make affiliate sales.

I want to take my top posts from this blog, move them to a new blog, and build real relationships with people. I would just modify my existing blog, but it seems like it's pissed off Google and there's little hope that it'll jump back up in the rankings.

Thoughts?
Raza

[AnniePot]

Originally Posted by rimam1

My site seems to be stuck. Not sure if it's penalized or Pandalized, but it went from having multiple page 1 (above the fold) rankings, to virtually none... I'm at the bottom of page 1 for just one term.

I'm thinking of scrapping the site and creating a new one. But in addition to focusing on SEO, I'm going to engage my niche with viral link bait posts, an edgy domain name and tagline, guest posts and forum posts in my industry, advertising via private ezines and newsletters, building an email list, doing contests, etc.

I've focused too much solely on search engine traffic. And while that's been really good, big G seems to not like my site very much. It's been a pretty bland blog, just trying to capitalize on search engine traffic and make affiliate sales.

I want to take my top posts from this blog, move them to a new blog, and build real relationships with people. I would just modify my existing blog, but it seems like it's pissed off Google and there's little hope that it'll jump back up in the rankings.

Thoughts?
Raza

Well done! And everything you do will make you far less reliant upon Google. That has to be a good move.

[Justin Stowe]

How old is the blog? How many backlinks does it have? How many posts? Are the posts informative, or just SEO fodder?

I think that it all depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to build an authority blog where people sign up for the RSS feed then the content will be very different then just SEO optimized articles.

If you're going for the authority blog where people come back again and again- you don't necessarily have to build up a new site. Just scrap the SEO fodder and start writing long, quality posts. Then get other bloggers in the niche to start linking to you (and of course you link to them).

Since people will like your articles anyways, they will probably link back to it so you get good Google rankings and repeat visitors