Site Hit by Panda Late Sept -- Can I Recover?

Most of the Penguin affected sites are unrecoverable, You can send a reconsideration request in Google Webmaster. But I don't think it will work.

I have had over a dozen sites annhilated by Panda or Penguin and was never able to recover. However, I did have a lot of anchor text over optimization in my link building. And also bought many grey/black hat link building services. To date, have never been able to recover a single site. I submitted a reconsideration request once and they said my site doesn't meet their criteria or whatever. So what should I do? Go to all of those sites and ask that article with my link be removed? Not gonna happen in this lifetime.

If you really really really want to save the site, then you'll have to completely restructure/reorganize your site, get any grey hat/black hat backlinks removed and submit a reconsideration request.

Instead of 301 ing the individual pages to the homepage, people have also succeeded in redirecting the whole site to a different domain and the new site starts doing better. That might be one approach you want to try. I also read a post by a respected warrior recently that said he removed the content from the site, deleted the site, did nothing for 2 months (the idea was for the content to get removed from G index) and then 2 months later, he put that content on a completely new domain. And Voila, the new site started to do well! That might be something you want to try. I'd personally spend the time and money on a new site than trying to recover it!

Hope that helps!
Chucky

I tried to recover one site in acne niche it was hit by panda april this year site was ranked #1 and drop the ranking all the way to page 10 I tried every possible methods from getting links from articles, web 2.0, high PR blog network , social bookmarks, press release, tweeter, Google +1, high PR blog commenting and so on I could get site to page 5 not any closer to page 1 I could not pass page 5 so I give up on the site and I notice sites that got hit by any Google penalty the ranking process goes extremely slow..my recommendation if you are trying to recover by panda hit domain just move on to another and build content and links....

I appreciate everyones responses.

BUt I think that Penguin is mainly off-site / links. And I believe I fixed it with that. 80% fixed it. But then Panda came along and I think penalized it. In fact I know it did because I remember when ti happened:
Panda #20 — September 27, 2012

(Google Algorithm Change History | SEOmoz)


NOw, I do think on the Penguin side of things I am OK -- but I just need to fix PANDA. And panda is purely on-site, correct?

Have you tried de optimizing content and writing non targeted articles?

No but that i kind of what I am thinking needs to be done. 301 most of the content pages, and then put up some quality non-targeted stuff..

One of our websites just popped back to its old spot today (it was gone from the 28th). With this particular site, we've continued link building the same way we have in the past, so it's probably not that that got it penalized in the first place.

We made no changes to the site in terms of content, simply edited some meta tags and added a few quality backlinks. That's all.

Of course, this will not work for ALL websites, and we've had to slightly change the strategy with every unique domain. So far we've recovered about 7/10 from the latest update using various techniques, the others are dancing around as we analyze our findings from the different methods.

Oilman i am in the same position but was not able to recover yet from Penguin. Could you share some advise on how you did it? The reason i think we were hit was over use of one anchor text for the majority of our links. Was this the case for you as well?

Well, First of all 301 all low quality content page. Re optimize site and don't do over On Page Optimization. Check all backlinks and send request to remove bad or low quality backlinks. Gray hat or black hat backlinks may hit your site.

Use new Google Disavow links tool to remove quality backlinks. It will help you to recover site.

But since its a Panda hit, why should I care about the backlinks? I know it was panda #20 for sure,.. as it happened on the exact date as Panda #20.

If Google has not told you that you have been penalized the you are okay. it just means that you are a blip on the radar but not evil enough to be shot. Two of my sites suffered badly and four months later they are recovering on their won without me doing anything. i had given up on those site and now they are back to 50% of their original traffic. I believe if I had changed some of the content and added links from high authority pages I would have recovered completely. i will give this idea a try in the next few weeks but so far I have been happy with its recovery. After the P&P hits the sites were never on page 1 and 2 and now they can be seen on page 1 and 2 on over 50% of the relevant searches and are even 1 and 2 on some searches.

Well, you had a good run, number 1 for years... i just think Google has decided to end the relationship , its suffice to say the site made you some good money?

Well no I didn't receive anything in WMT.

Panda and Penguin have killed my website . means killing me. All keywords gone from top 10
Oh dear !

I've never recovered a site - the best thing is usually to start over.

You'll drive yourself mad trying to figure out what's wrong with your sites.

Any site hit by Panda can recover as i have recovered mine from both Panda and Penguin hits but it takes time. Here is some tips for Panda recovery that i have found useful. Get site load speed down to less than 3 seconds, remove any ads above the fold, never have keywords in more than 3 consecutive articles, make sure you have all the relevant pages ie disclaimer, disclosure etc, post to the site every week, change font size and there is dozens of more things you could do but i hope this helps. Good Luck with the recovery

I think the worst thing you can do is to start moving things around on your site, horrible idea. Don't mess with the 301 or anchor texts or whatever it is. Just start building better links to authority sites.

If you think that all is lost with the site after your attempt, start fresh and send your traffic(whatever is left) to a new domain on a new ip. Rebuild that way, built going back and remidiating tons of 301 and anchors and etc is not worth it as far as i'm concerned.