How to Unpenalize a Website

by piinc
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Hi all.

Some background:
I had 1 new site that was ranking relatively well in google for a month or so due to linkbuilding via Magic Submitter (linkbuilding thru blogs, social bookmarking, and video submission).

The 1st week I was a little agressive with my submission of links. After that, I slowed it down to about 7 links per day for about a month.

Now I see that my site has been penalized by Google in that 1 only show one page that is still index however, none of my other indexed pages are shown in the SERPS anymore.

My questions are:
1. How do I get myself UN-penalized?

2. How do I use Magic Submitter (SeNuke type of sotware etc.) in a way that is more natural?

Not sure what to do at this point and any insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch!
#unpenalize #website
  • Profile picture of the author solado
    This happened to me not to long ago and my website came back a week later - Could be a google dance ?

    You can never blast your money site with software and make it look natural - if you do want to blast something with the software then blast a tier 1 backlink thats directed to your website (like a 2.0 profile or blog).

    You can also apply to be unpenalized from google webmaster tools (free) but you need to sign up an account.
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    • Profile picture of the author piinc
      Originally Posted by solado View Post

      This happened to me not to long ago and my website came back a week later - Could be a google dance ?

      You can never blast your money site with software and make it look natural - if you do want to blast something with the software then blast a tier 1 backlink thats directed to your website (like a 2.0 profile or blog).

      You can also apply to be unpenalized from google webmaster tools (free) but you need to sign up an account.
      Solado, I've heard of building a firewall of some sort in the past. Correct me if I'm wrong but it would involve maintaining the blog (which link to the money site) and then setting up the links which point to the blog.

      Is there a tool or course you would recommend to make this easy learn or setup?
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  • Profile picture of the author Oliver Williams
    To be penalized you would need much more then only 7 links per day. My advice is don't worry too much about it they will bounce back, they always do.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingChad
    Google Dance....don't stop building links, just keep on doing what you're doing and you'll be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kierkegaard
    New sites initially do well in the SERPS then drop. Just keep working on it naturally and things will work out alright.
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  • Profile picture of the author piinc
    Thanks guys for the feedback. I'll keep linkbuildling.

    Note: The other site I have using BMR never had this problem.

    Lastly, I'd like to know how each of you define "Natural" linkbuilding. Since I'll be using Magic, please advise.
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  • Profile picture of the author jascoken
    OK...

    De-indexing usually only happens where a site is doing massive outbound linking (link farms) or where there is a combination of negative factors like: Very low quality content and layout, linking to and from 'bad/spammy neighbourhoods', and bad advertising/legal practices etc.

    Penalisation normally happens from over-optimisation of keyword terms, and usually only affects those specific search terms. i.e. You've built hundreds or thousands of links to a new site, all with the same exact anchor text, which is also in the site URL (An EMD/PMD - or Exact/Phrase Match Domain), and it's in the Page Title, H1 tags and loaded into the content too. This is the ideal example of a newbie mistake in online marketing; thinking that more is better.

    A 'Google Slap' is the industry lingo for either a broad sweeping change/update in their algorithm which affects a lot of sites, or when a single person/business gets hit by Google for practices they consider outside of their TOS (Terms Of Service), and this is often associated with the AdSense program and AdSense sites.

    The key with all automated link-building is diversity; you need diversity in IP, platform/CMS, anchor text, content, URL/domains used, submission timing, and so on...

    You're trying to create the situation where every submission looks like a single, manual one, yet still use tools to power-up the volume.

    See: UberToolz : Using Mass Submission Tools

    (Disclosure: This is my site)

    If you truly have been penalised on a keyword phrase then building steady content-based links with a wide variety of anchor texts will usually de-optimise the phrase and remove the penalisation.
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    • Profile picture of the author zaco
      Originally Posted by jascoken View Post

      OK...

      De-indexing usually only happens where a site is doing massive outbound linking (link farms) or where there is a combination of negative factors like: Very low quality content and layout, linking to and from 'bad/spammy neighbourhoods', and bad advertising/legal practices etc.

      Penalisation normally happens from over-optimisation of keyword terms, and usually only affects those specific search terms. i.e. You've built hundreds or thousands of links to a new site, all with the same exact anchor text, which is also in the site URL (An EMD/PMD - or Exact/Phrase Match Domain), and it's in the Page Title, H1 tags and loaded into the content too. This is the ideal example of a newbie mistake in online marketing; thinking that more is better.

      A 'Google Slap' is the industry lingo for either a broad sweeping change/update in their algorithm which affects a lot of sites, or when a single person/business gets hit by Google for practices they consider outside of their TOS (Terms Of Service), and this is often associated with the AdSense program and AdSense sites.

      The key with all automated link-building is diversity; you need diversity in IP, platform/CMS, anchor text, content, URL/domains used, submission timing, and so on...

      You're trying to create the situation where every submission looks like a single, manual one, yet still use tools to power-up the volume.

      See: UberToolz : Using Mass Submission Tools

      (Disclosure: This is my site)

      If you truly have been penalised on a keyword phrase then building steady content-based links with a wide variety of anchor texts will usually de-optimise the phrase and remove the penalisation.

      The penalisation part you explained is kind of not accurate, first its recommended to do a variety of anchor texts but u won't get penalized because u have one anchor text, I did a research on 2 sites that link 1 anchor text, 400+ links , less than a year old and they are ranking at the top.

      The keywords need to be in the title and heading / tags.. U dnt need to flood the whole page but u need to include them there..thas basic SEO....
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      • Profile picture of the author byronc
        Damn, i took some guy up on his free 100 links offer and my web design site has dropped from first page to 4th page.

        is there anyway I can fix this ?

        will it ever recover?

        Please comment
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  • Profile picture of the author piinc
    Had this happen to me once. Google Webmaster Tools helped me fix the issues with my site but, it took time. I keep on with consistent quality link building, good content, plus fixing the issues popping up in my GWT account and after a couple of weeks, I was back on their good side.
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  • Profile picture of the author DataGenius
    Paid links do work, and so do many of the black hat SEO tactics. The problem is, when they stop working, you don’t drop in the rankings, you get removed, or penalized so severely you cannot recover. The white/grey SEO takes longer, but it also lasts longer and is less susceptible to latest Google algorithm(penguin) updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    Ummm Mr DataGenis. You do realize the thread you replied to is almost 2 years old?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joan Altz
    If the WF admins want to start deleting old threads or closing them, they can do that. Until that happens, any thread is fair game for a reply, no matter how old.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Joan Altz View Post

      If the WF admins want to start deleting old threads or closing them, they can do that. Until that happens, any thread is fair game for a reply, no matter how old.
      No, it's not. It's poor forum etiquette. I'm clad that admins seem to react by deleting BS comments from old threads.
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      Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author affilorama-portal
    It can just be Google dance. But just to be safe try to remove all low ranking/bad links you built with magic submitter. If you have a tool to check your backlinks, you can see the backlinks of your site and remove all low quality links. You can try Traffic Travis to check for your backlinks.

    Then of course, just concentrate on building more links, focus on high page rank sites only. You can still use magic submitter but I suggest to use this with caution. Do not automate everything. It is still best that you also do manual backlinking and be active in social media sites. Good luck!
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