My two cents about the Penguin Update, personal findings
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I am new to this forum but I think there's no harm in contributing with my two cents to the penguin - he must have hundreds of dollars right now
My network's traffic went down about 50% and all my sites have been hit.
Here are my thoughts:
1. I am pretty sure the penguin update is more about onsite than offsite.
My sites have better link profiles than the competitors who have risen in rankings.
*all my sites had their affiliate links generated by javascript (which could be the cause) and also a traffic trading script which I have removed.
2. I am pretty sure google is using a.i. havily to display it's results. The crappy sites which we see high in the serps could be seen by google as "valuable content" but I have a hunch that soon, after bouncerate and other user metrics will be analyzed they will be dropped and some of the sites that took a hitting will recover. It's kind of a way to get the garbage to the surface, learn from user metrics and than pun an order to the serps.
3. I think it's best to measure our sites vs competitors and decide if our site was hit because of onsite or offsite seo stuff.
My competitors have worse backlink profiles so in my case I am pretty sure its onsite.
4. Try to change things slowly and try to figure out what did it.
5. For people who are sure that their onsite is great and they discover the hit was caused by their link profiles, I am pretty sure it's really hard to recover and better start with fresh domains.
You could keep the ones that got hit for link exchanges
I hope you will find my post useful!
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hadsek -
Thanks - 1 reply
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tylerherman -
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