To Keep or Discard a Penguin Hit Site?

by r2r
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Hi Guys
had a site that was ranking on 1-2 page for 4 different set of keyword untill the Penguin Update

All ranking lost after that.

need expert suggestions on whether to keep this site and continue working on SEO or to buy a new domain and direct all efforts there?
#discard #hit #penguin #site
  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    I have a few sites in the same position. I'm abandoning them and moving on though I may revisit them later.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Silvey
    First thing I would do is look in Googles Webmaster Tools to see if there are any flags and deal with them accordingly.

    As far as low quality links, they have already been de indexed. Build new quality links.

    This tid bit more or less came from Google
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  • Profile picture of the author retsced
    Why abandon it now after putting in so much work? Just build a few high quality links to those pages before you make any decisions. If you decide to focus on another domain, please do not make the same mistakes. Maybe you should focus a lot of your efforts on direct traffic and see how that fairs out. Build a list and start to focus on CONTROLLED traffic instead.

    Actually, this thread is in the wrong section of the forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author BudaBrit
    Just create, or get someone to create, some really high quality content, be it articles, video or infographics, and get some highly targetted direct traffic - after all, direct traffic is better than search traffic, and it wont be effected by Google's algorithm changes
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