DAYAM!!! Did Google Take The "Filter" Off My Site? Rankings SHOT UP.

I made a thread just a week or 2 ago about how I posted on a pr3 blog, that wasn't relevant, and my comment got stuck in their recent comment widget for 4 weeks.

It was registering over 3,000 nonrelevant backlinks with the same anchor text in webmaster tools, and ahrefs. The site was only 4 months old and my rankings plummeted a couple days after. Some SEO "pros" were telling me that the widget had NOTHING to do with my drop in rankings.

But for 4 weeks I was building links, and nothing was happening. I was CONVINCED that google had applied some type of spam filter to my site, and had various people telling me it was possible.

SO BASICALLY, I had 2 groups of people. One group telling me it was impossible, another group telling me it was possible.

Now listen to this. I wound up sending a bunch of comments to the same blog 4 days ago, to get my comments PUSHED OFF their widget. Then I pinged the blog and decided to wait a week to see if anything would change.

I have verified my rankings for each keyword with icognito, and this is the improvement I witnessed today.



This is the second half to this story. I am 1000% convinced that being in a recent comment widget for 4 weeks, triggered a spam filter.

I NEED some true seo experts, to validate whether this is what could have happened. Like I said, my rank for all my keywords dropped a couple days after, then when the comment was removed, all my rankings increased.

So that tells me that comment widgets can seriously f##k with your rankings.

Am I spreading misinformation, or do vets agree with this?