Recovered from Penalty But

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Hello,
We recovered from Google's manual penalty in January 2014. Afterwards, we changed our site design, fixed our content, fixed java scripting, disavowed bad links, increased our social presence, tried to engage customers in blog content, etc. But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)
What should we do to bring our domain name back on the SERP?
What About Sandbox? What we need to do to get out our domain name from sand box?

Any comments or thoughts will be really appreciated

Best.


P.S: It was manual link penalty
#penalty #recovered
  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Originally Posted by alvanorichie View Post

    Hello,
    We recovered from Google's manual penalty in January 2014. Afterwards, we changed our site design, fixed our content, fixed java scripting, disavowed bad links, increased our social presence, tried to engage customers in blog content, etc. But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)
    What should we do to bring our domain name back on the SERP?
    What About Sandbox? What we need to do to get out our domain name from sand box?

    Any comments or thoughts will be really appreciated

    Best.


    P.S: It was manual link penalty
    What makes you think your site has recovered? If you didn't submit a reconsideration request and didn't get a manual penalty revocation message in your webmaster tools account, then your site hasn't recovered.
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    • Profile picture of the author alvanorichie
      Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

      What makes you think your site has recovered? If you didn't submit a reconsideration request and didn't get a manual penalty revocation message in your webmaster tools account, then your site hasn't recovered.
      Yes we received Google manual penalty revoke message at webmaster and we already filed reconsideration request prior to that message,
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      • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
        Originally Posted by alvanorichie View Post

        Yes we received Google manual penalty revoke message at webmaster and we already filed reconsideration request prior to that message,
        If that's the case, it may take quite a while to regain you former standing in Google. Just like rayray7 wrote, a penalised site won't rank as well as it used to because it has been caught manipulating the algorithm. Try building some backlinks to the domain to see if it will make a difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author promo87
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    Originally Posted by alvanorichie View Post

    Hello,
    We recovered from Google's manual penalty in January 2014. Afterwards, we changed our site design, fixed our content, fixed java scripting, disavowed bad links, increased our social presence, tried to engage customers in blog content, etc. But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)
    What should we do to bring our domain name back on the SERP?
    What About Sandbox? What we need to do to get out our domain name from sand box?

    Any comments or thoughts will be really appreciated

    Best.


    P.S: It was manual link penalty
    Well, I would say if you have recovered from the penalty then don't push yourself hard because it could take weeks before you get yourself available over the SERPs,let me give you an example we have also hit by Manual penalty from Google and its been more than 3 months that we are still struggling over the rankings sometimes we find ourself over the top, but sometimes we are no where still our rankings are not stable but what I can say now is we are gaining momentum. What I am trying to say here is sometimes doing nothing can also helps you out !
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  • Profile picture of the author netanel23
    Just because a manual penalty is removed doesn't mean that your rankings will recover. Most of the time sites that trigger a manual penalty also built low quality links that would hit the site with algorithm issues with Penguin.

    Meaning even though you successfully removed your manual penalty your site could be hurting because of Penguin. The only real way to recover from penguin is by removing links not by disavowing. Disavow is a sham.

    If you want to recover your rankings at this point you need to remove the links. Otherwise there's not much you can do at this point.
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  • Profile picture of the author rayray7
    This is like a cheating husband or wife, Google will probably never trust that domain completely again. You should have moved on and transferred all your contents to a new site.
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  • Profile picture of the author rahmanpaidar
    Originally Posted by alvanorichie View Post

    But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)
    Do you really think that the competitive keyword "best vpn service" is your own domain name?
    By domain name I assume you mean something such as abcd.com

    If you mean Brand name, then I assume it must be something such as Sony,
    Microsoft, Apple or something similar that nobody else have used it before you chose
    it as a domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    Originally Posted by alvanorichie View Post

    Hello,
    We recovered from Google's manual penalty in January 2014. Afterwards, we changed our site design, fixed our content, fixed java scripting, disavowed bad links, increased our social presence, tried to engage customers in blog content, etc. But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)
    What should we do to bring our domain name back on the SERP?
    What About Sandbox? What we need to do to get out our domain name from sand box?

    Any comments or thoughts will be really appreciated

    Best.


    P.S: It was manual link penalty
    Do you think the links you had the penalty for were at least partially responsible for your previous SERPs?

    If that's a yes, what did you think would happen after Google discounted them and you disavowed them?

    You used blackhat SEO methods to rank, it worked.
    Got caught using blackhat techniques and got penalized.
    Removed the blackhat backlinks and recovered from the penalty.

    Now you expect the same rankings you had from blackhat techniques using only whitehat SEO.

    Have to you built equal value whitehat backlinks to replace the blackhat links that generated earlier SERPs you disavowed?

    I bet the answer is no, not yet.

    What do you expect?

    Go work on quality backlinks that don't break Google's Webmaster Guidelines, because you've been hit with a penalty previously consider your site under constant scrutiny, don't take any SEO risks.

    David
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  • Profile picture of the author Targeted Traffic
    You may want to have a SEO do an audit for you. You may now have a burnt domain, if that is the case you will need to determine what will provide the highest ROI.

    The audit will give you three options.

    Fix everything that is recommend and understand why it mattes

    Just keep trying to do what your doing and hope for the best

    Or start a new clean domain, and hope your Domain Registar info has not given Google a reason to burn all your associated domains.

    I will be willing to bet your gut feeling will tell you which way you need to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxjay
    Originally Posted by alvanorichie View Post

    Hello,
    We recovered from Google's manual penalty in January 2014. Afterwards, we changed our site design, fixed our content, fixed java scripting, disavowed bad links, increased our social presence, tried to engage customers in blog content, etc. But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)
    What should we do to bring our domain name back on the SERP?
    What About Sandbox? What we need to do to get out our domain name from sand box?

    Any comments or thoughts will be really appreciated

    Best.


    P.S: It was manual link penalty
    once Google has put the hammer on you, I always recommend you start out with a brand-new domain, content and try to separate yourself as far as possible from what was penalized... no matter what you do, your original property will still be penalized even if it isn't just fully
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