My Site's in a coma: Should I Pull the Plug?

bump for some responses - hopefully

Wow, $4000 is a definite leap of faith for the never changing seo.

tell me about it. $200 per month for many moons

Any one have any opinions, input?

Well find out where your getting back links. If you have any spammy back links then try to delete them.

Have you analyzed your backlink anchor text? Most of my Amazon review sites also got negatively affected by Penguin. I think it's most likely related to over optimization of anchor text. It looks like most of your backlinks have 'wine cooler' and 'wine coolers'.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.bestwinecoolersreview.com

What problems do you think are on-site? It doesn't look like there are any on-site issues. The grammar could be better for the reviews, but I don't think Penguin would penalize for that.

Spammy backlinks are most likely deemed as links from unrelated sites or things like automated blog comments. To delete links you either need to do it yourself if you control the site the link is on or you need to contact the site webmaster. In many cases, it isn't plausible to delete backlinks because it would take far too long to contact webmasters and many of them wouldn't even remove the link.

I don't know which seo service you use. But its important to get a quality seo service from the start to build a good backlink porfolio foundation for your site.

Hi,

Just had a look at the first couple of pages of your backlink profile and most are blog comments from what look like auto approved blogs. You can use a service for example majesticseo to take a look for yourself.

so you guys think the issue is external and not on-page seo related. I was hoping it was the other way around. I can easily fix on-page issues myself

You should try and remove all spammy-looking links from your link-portfolio, and simultaneously build new, high quality ones (only using unique content!). Keep it diverse and consistent, and you'll start to crawl back up in no time!

$4,000 for comment spam ?

Hi Red

This is quite an efficient little website. Look I wouldn't bury your website unless you seriously don't want to spend any time on it to fix it up. Certainly you have covered facets of the wine cooler niche that would make this site SEO friendly for Google. Backlinks yeah if you paid someone in India to do backlinks and they are not relating correctly to your niche then you will need to create a system to rectify this.

Rome was not built in a day and like everyone here that owns websites you have to do a little bit everyday adding fresh and unique content that is useful to your customers. think to yourself what can I put on my website that will provide exceptional value to my customer while they are there.

Fresh advertising in markets affiliated with these products but not in direct competition with them. What about finding the top 10 websites for wineries or wine/liquor bottle shops where you can target your Adsense advertising to bring in more quality traffic?

What about JV with wineries and boutique bottle shops owners- How can you work in with other website owners in the broader market and cross-promote your review website.

Where there is a will there is a way to bring up your sales again- If it is just your back-links letting you down this can be fixed, just add more quality backlinks so Google can see you are a contender in your niche. The most important thing is to not stop doing something to improve the situation every day, or you will sink your business...I suggest keep paddling and do something different to make Google happy with you again.

Oh I also see something like a Facebook Fanpage very good for bringing customer in - Setting up a page is free - you can post there, whack in the html code into your website and there you have fresh content coming to your website everyday. Advertise on Facebook set a budget and keep consistently building.

Cheers
Kezee Kandoo

I recently deleted $200 sites.
Why I deleted 200 of my sites | 10 Awesome Dollars
I seriously believe of the era of
content + onsite SEO + link building = revenue with adsense or affiliates --> is gone.

Although it sucks the faster we adapt the better.
Kezee advice is smart in the sense that the revenue needs to come from what other people are NOT DOING, so JV can create more unique content and marketing that can bring traffic away from Google.

I'm afraid the time for the keyword sniping sites are gone.

I don't have spammy backlinks to my sites, but my Amazon sites were also hit by Penguin. I think it's more likely related to over optimization of anchor text than quality of links. Although it's a possibility that it could be a combination of both. After all, Penguin is an algorithmic change, it doesn't send notices in GWT telling the webmaster to remove backlinks.

What would someone do if a competitor built thousands of spammy links to them? They wouldn't be able to remove them so there site would be done.

Im moving away from self hosted sites/SEO now. It's a pain in the neck. I think using properties that you don't own is better because they don't get hit in updates and if they do it's not a drastic drop.

You took in $3500...spent roughly $1500 in link building...so you are up $2000 and still making $100 a month...

I'd find a new project, stop investing in that for a while and see if it recovers in 4 - 6 months...you never lost...you just learned a lesson. Just because a guy is getting results, doesn't mean he is doing it right...always check up on the work you are paying for.