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Pure Spam Penalty

by gozames
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Hello, I'm working on this site for 7 years now, I will not list all pros which this site have, such as speed and so on, I need help to understand why it got pure spam penalty, I got this email two month ago after that I have rewritten all content and also deleted some of them, I have sent reconsideration request is last and this month and got negative answer for both, I have made really many improvements but I will not list them at this time as I think it's not make any sense, main thing is what is now and where is problem.

I must say last 3-4 month I hired writer which was doing reviews and this is only content which I have not rewritten. Please you can check and tell me what you think because I'm really working on this seven years, I had huge problems and it's continues, only problems last 3 years! I don't see success, before penalty I have made over 100 improvements and another time huge problem. Some other TLD's for my site still indexed but main one is fully deleted from results.

Effort is not a problem I'll do my best but after all tries I don't know what to fix, after first unsuccessful reconsideration request, I have made another changes and contacted with SEO companies and made changes which they have suggested but still no success. I don't think my website is worse of many sites, of-course there are better sites, but are much worse which doing much better. Also I have found many sites which are scrapping my content but this is not important I think.

Please give me your opinion what is needed to be done, I will fix everything but I will not shutdown site, so this is not solution. Also I'm not using any scrapping soft, games are distributed very fast, daily I'm getting many emails requesting including games to my website so it's really not needed, I'm also doing same, I have developed over 60 games and also sending this games on different websites.

Thanks a lot, I hope you'll find time to check it
#penalty #pure #spam
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    The penalty is for links from other sites that point to your site.

    Look here in February 14000 links from Free Online Games - Free Games Played Online

    https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/...=1392854400000

    I would ask them to change that maybe to 1 single homepage link, instead of 14000 sitewide links.
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  • Profile picture of the author gozames
    Thanks for replay, but why they are telling that problem is one of this or all of them

    automatically generated gibberish, cloaking, scraping content
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  • Profile picture of the author FranksToys
    In my experience pure spam penalties are when you have screwed up just about everything. Here's a few ways I can see why they did that to your website:
    1) Your site is a gaming site with all of the same games from every other gaming site, thus a "scraped site"
    2) Horrible backlink profile
    Directory links, apparent paid links, forum profile links and everything in between.

    You will need to make your site more unique, as much as possible and start your link removals ASAP.

    Otherwise just forget about ranking a pure spam site.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    So it's another one of those Flash game sites. There's not much content on the site, and much of it is automatically generated. Take a look at the HTML source: your actual "content" might be 10 words at the end of the document. Not technically "scraping" but it seems to fit at least 2 out of 3.

    I'd be interested to see if Google goes after other copies of the same game site.
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

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  • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
    I have to agree with everyone here. Its clear that you have no origininal content on your site. Just moving around a few of the pages you have there, it seems all your games come from some other source.

    I doubt Google would have gotten upset about that if you made the site more niche to specific game genre and actually provided some type of review. But at this point you might as well have created a site your of nothing but scraped YouTube video's and you would have achieved the same results.

    If I were you I would just walk away from this site and start a new one. If not your just going to end up having to redo the entire site over again.
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  • Profile picture of the author gozames
    Hello, thanks for replay, I understand what you want today but in this situation all flash games industry is spam, for example armor games they also have content which can be found on other websites, all of them don't have what you call original content, so why my site is banned and why not armor games ?
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by gozames View Post

      so why my site is banned and why not armor games ?
      Maybe their strategy of having a bit more duplicated text at the end of page works, maybe they've got better backlinks (so the site seems more legit), or maybe they just got lucky. It's also possible that Google has slapped them with the same notice, we just don't know about it (yet).

      It's a good idea to take a peek at competition, but I'd concentrate the efforts to your site. It's pretty obvious what's wrong, and what you could try. Unfortunately it's a lot of work.
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  • Profile picture of the author deepakrajput
    Use Google Disavow Links Tool with Fetch all backlinks of your site and contact webmaster to remove your links ASAP.
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