Have I got a penalty? This is a good one for you SEO experts.
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OK so here is my problem. I have a a domain that is the exact match for the keyword we are optimising for, its old (1999) and on top of that its got a good website with lots of content. This time last year it was a 12 page website with 200 links. Now it is a 370 page website (70 pages a month getting added monthly as of this coming month) and has over 5,000 back links (total links not root). Last month we had over 1,380 back links that were all natural and came about just from our content (it went viral). We have some amazing links to our content from sires like National Geographic, Forbes, Discovery Chanel and just this month Wired.
Bottom line is we are not receiving ANY natural traffic for ANY NEW search terms, be that new content we a creating and/or the search term we are optimising for. Its like all the new links we are creating are just not getting counted.
Now the interesting bit. We did rank well for the keyword we were aiming to rank for, in fact we ranked on page one for 6 weeks and then on the 14th Sept we tanked and google pushed us all the way back to pretty much the end of the SERPS for that keyword. Since then the only organic traffic we have received is from old keywords we were ranking fore before we din and SEO. All the new work we are doing seems to have totally been discounted. Its 5 months now sins this happened. We have continued to put up good content and we have continued to get amazing organic and totally natural links, but still no ranking. We have a PR of 3 and a predicted PR of 5. We have no manual penalty etc.We are also getting loads of social signals from all the content we do.
Sort of hoping its a 6 month penalty for link velocity and after google sees we are still getting top links they will bounce us back.
Any ideas guys?
Thanks in advance for your help
Bottom line is we are not receiving ANY natural traffic for ANY NEW search terms, be that new content we a creating and/or the search term we are optimising for. Its like all the new links we are creating are just not getting counted.
Now the interesting bit. We did rank well for the keyword we were aiming to rank for, in fact we ranked on page one for 6 weeks and then on the 14th Sept we tanked and google pushed us all the way back to pretty much the end of the SERPS for that keyword. Since then the only organic traffic we have received is from old keywords we were ranking fore before we din and SEO. All the new work we are doing seems to have totally been discounted. Its 5 months now sins this happened. We have continued to put up good content and we have continued to get amazing organic and totally natural links, but still no ranking. We have a PR of 3 and a predicted PR of 5. We have no manual penalty etc.We are also getting loads of social signals from all the content we do.
Sort of hoping its a 6 month penalty for link velocity and after google sees we are still getting top links they will bounce us back.
Any ideas guys?
Thanks in advance for your help
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