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Hit By Penguin - What Would You Do?

by momo3
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Hello

I have several large sites that I considered quite authoritative that were hit by Peguin after ranking well for years.

I am now trying to figure out where to go next with it all.

Here is what I am going to do:

1.) Go into my sites and remove excessive keywords to lower down the density.
2.) Look at any same-site linking that I've done and scale it down (and remove money anchor text). (For example I had many pages that had content and then anchor text that would route to the main page with anchor text)
3.) Build a lot of quality, content rich web 2.0 properties and have contextual links back to my site that do NOT have my money anchor text. Because this ratio is what (From what i've read) has caused Penguin.
4.) Create more web 2.0 properties that link to the first tier, and do some backlinking to them.
5.) Try to get more people to backlink to me within my same niche.

What are your thoughts? Does anyone know of any services I can hire that can help me with this? I realize we're trying to all figure out Penguin.. so maybe there are not any valid services out yet..
#hit #penguin
  • Profile picture of the author Theeban
    I am pretty sure your plan is perfect, Good luck. This will help you to get recovery soon. Do not forget to use URL itself or just your website name within anchor text.

    However, note that it will take some to get recover from Penguin...., Keep on working with quality sites and always try to make links "natural"
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  • Profile picture of the author JKflipflop
    Contextual backlinks all the way my friend - Penguin has focussed on contextual backlinks' prominence and off course, good quality content in every single dimension possible
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Rename your url and redirect the old one. This works!

      If your rootdomain is affected try to rename the index.php to home.php and redirect the old one as well.

      You are probably hit cause of same anchor txt, this way you don't have that problem anymore. Tests have shown that penalties don't get redirected with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Could i hire you to help me with this? I would maybe test this on a site..
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by momo3 View Post

      Could i hire you to help me with this? I would maybe test this on a site..
      I just copied some guide from another site:

      .htaccess 301 Redirects for Moved Pages on Your Webserver

      A quick SEO tip to keep your Google Page Rank when you update or redesign your website and change the location of your content. Make sure you do a 301 redirect to the new location so search engines can still find that page, which is great for Search Engine Optimized pages, and if you do so your existing Page Rank will follow.

      For instance, I just changed the location of some of the files on my website. I moved some of them into the portfolio directory -- so here is how I kept the search engines abreast of this change.

      Create a file named .htaccess in the directory that contains your websites files. If the file exists already then open it up and add this to the bottom of the file:

      Code:
      redirect 301 /old-page.html http://www.yourserver.com/new-directory/new-file.html
      Remember to substitute your file names for old-page.html and "new-file.html", and your server name for "www.yourserver.com". Within a few days to a few weeks the search engines should be updated about the new location.

      source: htaccess 301 Redirects for Moved Pages - Web Design, Web Development, Ecommerce Services | Daniel Catts Digital Media Design
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  • Profile picture of the author akazzz
    1st of all before you start analyzing what got your sites in the Penguin update, fix your onpage seo. i.e: page loading speed, duplicate content within your urls, keyword density for your articles (if its above 3%, bring it down to 1-3% and input 2-3 variations of your targeted keyword for that article into it.

    2nd: high quality web 2.0 alone won't cause your rankings to last. Diversify your link building strategy, not only web 2.0. That's the main reason why many warriors got hit. Because the services they buy or the link building they do to their site only has 1-3 types of links and the most common around WF are social bookmarks, article directories & blog comments & adding up to the penguin hit, minimal anchor text diversity.

    3rd: i don't know how heavily optimized your site is for your targeted keyword. If 60-90% of your backlinks has the same anchor text/keyword you're targeting. You should build more backlinks toward other variations of that keyword instead.
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