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Has anyone here recovered from Penguin before?

by Xelaetaks
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Anyone seen evidence that Google Penguin recovery is possible? Did you have to delete all bad links to your site or a percentage of them?

Cheers
#penguin #recovered
  • Profile picture of the author Paz
    I've had two sites recover from Penguin warnings but they took me over a year each. Both my inorganic links warnings were removed at the third re-inclusion request and I reckon I got about 70 to 80% of my limks removed and compiled a very detailed spreadsheet with a line for each link.

    In the final re-inclusion request I posted a link to the spreadsheet, acknowledged I was doing paid links, pointed out that I hadn't done paid links for over a year and promised not to do any more paid links.

    I don't think you have to remove all the links but you have to get rid of a lot and disavow people who don't reply to emails or who have privacy protected whois emails.

    A lot of my links disappeared when the domains expired, and I claimed those as due to my actions as well.
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    I missed the rocket fuel part. I thought it was hot air.

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  • Profile picture of the author sweezeter
    I was able to recover from Penguin. It all came down to link removals and cleaning up the unnatural and toxic links at the end of the day. I did not use the disavow tool on the domain and stuck towards removing links from sources like directories & social bookmarking sites. Basically anything that was an automated mass produced backlink. Most of these came via fiverr back in the day. You see you do get what you pay for.

    The thing to remember with penguin is that you won't recover overnight, all the bogus "instant penguin fixes" are just that, bogus. If you want to recover you need to start cleaning links up today, in fact yesterday.

    Penguin targets websites with shady link profiles. Clean them up. Wait for refresh. Profit.
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    • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
      Originally Posted by sweezeter View Post

      I was able to recover from Penguin. It all came down to link removals and cleaning up the unnatural and toxic links at the end of the day. I did not use the disavow tool on the domain and stuck towards removing links from sources like directories & social bookmarking sites. Basically anything that was an automated mass produced backlink. Most of these came via fiverr back in the day. You see you do get what you pay for.

      The thing to remember with penguin is that you won't recover overnight, all the bogus "instant penguin fixes" are just that, bogus. If you want to recover you need to start cleaning links up today, in fact yesterday.

      Penguin targets websites with shady link profiles. Clean them up. Wait for refresh. Profit.
      Thanks. I've be cleaning up since months ago - now have realized removal is vital so I've been going to lengths now to get webmasters whois id's and asking to remove links.
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  • Profile picture of the author serpyre
    Of course, we only need Summary information to have a conclusion, everyone else needs the Details to come to the Conclusion which takes 90% of the time. The problem understanding the Details is that people need to go through interative cycles each time taking 3-6mths using different strategies. Some will be lucky and come across the correct combination or people who have tried all the combinations to find the correct one, most won't.

    Time didn't matter in the past as it was an up economy, now time matters so if you spend your time understanding the Details testing all the combinations you will go under. Those who don't have a Conclusion to the problem are still trying to work through the Details thinking time is their ally using previous generation techniques, Google are not going to let that happen.
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  • Profile picture of the author northcave
    Originally Posted by Xelaetaks View Post

    Anyone seen evidence that Google Penguin recovery is possible? Did you have to delete all bad links to your site or a percentage of them?

    Cheers
    Yes but sites badly affected by Penguin will usually have a manual penalty and this will be listed in Webmaster tools. Minor things such as a few bad links won't give a huge penalty but could be worth trying to remove them.
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