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Penguin Recovery?

by GamerUK
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Hi all!

My website just got hit by Panda/Penguin? Whatever the Zoo. Search impressions and clicks dropped to pretty much nothing.

The site is fairly new. Started in January.
A friend and I started it together. We had a few sites in a similar niche. All of which generated traffic. We decided to forward all of these (around 8 sites) to our new main site to give it that initial boost and allow us more time to work on the main site.

We were hit this weekend. Search just hot rock bottom. We have since removed the forwarded sites as we noticed all the links that pointed to these now showed up in webmaster tools and each page from the old sites showed as a link in webmaster tools. Over 50k links in total.

Now that these are removed, how long will it take for google to show these links as removed? Is there any way to speed up the process?
I ask this because a few of the links from random sites we checked didn't even have links to our site or any of the previous sites. So is this a long process? Anyone have any experience with it?
#panda #recovery
  • Profile picture of the author GyuMan82
    There was no Panda update this weekend. Are you talking about the Penguin refresh?

    If your website was hit by Penguin, even if you remove all the links, you will have to wait till the next refresh to recover. There is no way to speed this process up.

    Next refresh will likely be after the holidays so Google can rack up some Adwords revenue over Christmas.
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    • Profile picture of the author GamerUK
      Originally Posted by GyuMan82 View Post

      There was no Panda update this weekend. Are you talking about the Penguin refresh?

      If your website was hit by Penguin, even if you remove all the links, you will have to wait till the next refresh to recover. There is no way to speed this process up.

      Next refresh will likely be after the holidays so Google can rack up some Adwords revenue over Christmas.
      Yeah, Penguin sorry. I always get confused by all the Zoo animals.
      I'm not asking when recovery will happen. I know that needs to wait for the next update. I'm asking when the links will start to be removed from webmaster tools. Now they no longer point to it. As we're seeing links that don't exist and haven't for a good while.
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  • Profile picture of the author Applepiee
    It seems like you didn't do anything wrong like buying backlinks,...

    I really wonder why Google's system would throw out websites like that (mine also got hit, I have good content, never bought backlinks).

    The removed links for probably disappear within 48 hours.

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  • Profile picture of the author EvcRo
    Maybe the sites you redirected to the new site dropped a lot of positions from serps , normally, as they are now just redirects, and they send little traffic.

    Imo a bad move from you.
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    • Profile picture of the author GamerUK
      Originally Posted by EvcRo View Post

      Maybe the sites you redirected to the new site dropped a lot of positions from serps , normally, as they are now just redirects, and they send little traffic.

      Imo a bad move from you.
      The queries were from the new site only. The traffic from the older sites came from distributed games. Not organic search.
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  • Profile picture of the author sweezeter
    Here is what I would recommend doing, mind you I was able to recover my sites rankings from Penguin 2.0.

    Re-add those 301's, your sites rankings are already doomed because of them if they were the reason behind the issues. There are probably a number of high quality links pointed to those domains. Throwing away that link juice will hurt you just as bad as the few bad apples that were passed along because of the 301's.

    Next figure out the unnatural links on the 301'd domains and your primary domain. This is key. I think doing some minor cleanup is well worth it than starting entirely over. Domains with 50k backlinks are powerful domains and its hard to rebuild to that level.

    Clean up the 301'd domains
    Clean up your new primary domain
    Wait for the refresh and your rankings will be back to where you started and maybe higher with the unnatural links removed.
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