Anchor text penalty
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The rankings I checked were on Google UK. However, I am still on the 2nd page for all other Google cctlds, including google.com. Since the keyword includes 'holiday', it is not a term that US people use and therefore does not bring me any traffic from google.com.
All this happened at the beginning of August and to this day, I have not recovered my rankings at all. A few days after it happened, I managed to find my site for that keyword around page 20 and now it's stuck at page 18.
I bought the new domain name and launched the site in Nov last year and have been updating it gradually and also building links gradually. I am still doing both although I am now using the URL as anchor text for the homepage.
My organic traffic is steadily rising all the time. This is why I assume my lost of ranking just for 1 keyword is due to the anchor text. Any idea how to recover? And how long it will take? As I said, I am now using the URL as anchor text but I haven't seen any improvement. I have only been doing white-hat stuff, initially links from directories, then article directories until Panda hit, then plenty from guest posts, a few from link exchanges and some blog commenting for variety and a natural link profile.
Anyone been through the same situation as me?
On a different note, I seem to notice that links have less effect on Google nowadays. I keep throwing links at specific pages on my sites and the ranking (way off page 1) does not budge.
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