Anyone recover from Penguin this time around?

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Has anyone seen evidence of penguin recovery yet?

Oddly when they were running tests my site went up a few pages and now for some keywords it seems like it may be back in the higher pages of google 8-12.

I'm pretty annoyed at Google to be honest and that they don't do manual reviews to see if maybe a legit business had bad seo years ago is b*******. After posting around someone on Google forums found 500+ links to add to disavow and I am making more effort to delete even more links , even looking up the whois info for some old websites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
    My suggestion would be to be building high authority links to your site along with your disavow campaign.

    Just test it, however there are some out there that say this run of Penguin didn't penalize bad links. In an effort to combat negative SEO, they just devalued bad links. So in theory, if you build some high quality links to your website you should see a rise in your rankings.

    Of course a blanket statement for every website and situation is irresponsible at best, so test it in your market and on your sites and come up with a conclusion on your own.
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    • Profile picture of the author Profee Melen
      It's web 2.0 better ah..?

      past of 3 weeks impression is decreasing and push back 1 page
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  • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
    My site was penalized by penguin around a year ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author kwikemarket
    My ranking is stable after pengiun role out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
      Originally Posted by kwikemarket View Post

      My ranking is stable after pengiun role out.
      If your ranking is stable after the last update, then start building more high quality links, you can quit disavowing them, that won't help you anymore.

      You need more links, good ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
    Hi,

    Still am unable to recover from the penguin update, i think it takes around one month to recover.
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  • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
    It can take many months to recover. I'm annoyed that Google blocks my website from coming up in search results even when it is exactly what people are looking for. I'm not some spammy website! My site doesn't even have ads on it, It's pretty f-d up to be honest. If it takes more than a few months for another update I may need to make a second site.
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  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    Originally Posted by Xelaetaks View Post

    Has anyone seen evidence of penguin recovery yet?
    No one is going to recover until they next run the Penguin algorithm! (assuming they fixed the probs that got them dinged in the first place). It is possible to improve the ranking of a penguin affected site somewhat in the interim by getting good links.
    I'm pretty annoyed at Google to be honest and that they don't do manual reviews to see if maybe a legit business had bad seo years ago is b*******..
    And who should be paying for that service? Given that a zillion new websites are created every day, how many staff do you think will be needed to do the manual reviews? Who should pay for that?
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    • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
      Originally Posted by cbpayne View Post

      No one is going to recover until they next run the Penguin algorithm! (assuming they fixed the probs that got them dinged in the first place). It is possible to improve the ranking of a penguin affected site somewhat in the interim by getting good links.
      And who should be paying for that service? Given that a zillion new websites are created every day, how many staff do you think will be needed to do the manual reviews? Who should pay for that?
      I hear what you're saying. I guess realistically running Penguin at least a few times a year would seem more fair and to Google's benefit that can also mean taking down spammy sites faster if that's what the algorithm is aimed to pick up while giving sites a chance to recover faster.

      Also I decided to hire link delete after not recovering from this update - altho impressions have gone up it seems like so far Google is blacklisting my site for some product searches and keeping some main keywords away from the first few pages.

      It also leaves the idea open if having another site in the same niche would be a smart or idea or not - would Google look at it bad for being associated with a Penguin hit site or not care.

      We did clean a lot of this site up but I guess considering I already deleted some more links by digging deeper into webmasters contact info I guess removing as many links as possible can raise the chances of recovery.
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  • Profile picture of the author sweezeter
    You will only recover once Penguin is rerun. I know because that's exactly what happened to my website. I did recover with this last Penguin update. I won't lie though it is a long process and requires link removals and undoing of what your past SEO did.

    My site ranked well before the last penguin that Google introduced last year. Then it just basically went from page one for my keywords to page 10. Overnight. This kinda hit really has an impact on a business. At first I was pissed at Google. Then I realized I needed to take action or I wasn't gonna have that business any longer. Most people advised to start over but that wasn't possible with this domain.

    I took the initiative and started to remove the links that my last SEO made. I quickly realized that I'd be in a worse position if I spent hundreds of hours on this boring task and I'd probably go insane by the time it was completed. Decided to look for a service to do it for me, contacted the major players and went with linkdelete as my solution.

    To make a longer story shorter, one year later my rankings are back to preexisting positions and my traffic is back. I will tell you though that it wasn't cheap and I had to wait a year. Maybe Penguin will be updated faster this time around who knows I don't. I know for me and my business though I made the right decision.
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  • Profile picture of the author ldhsmo
    Penalized This year's update and preparing to get recovered from it in one or two months or more...
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