Hiring SEO Companies to revive from Penguin havoc?

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Has anyone here hired an SEO company to help recover their sites from the Penguin update?

I've had over 20 sites negatively affected by the Penguin, so to recover them myself would take ages even if it is possible. I was at a $2000/month level before I got hit by Penguin so im prepared to pay decent money to recover them.

I've never used any paid backlinking services, but I got hit so oddly getting penalized is making me considering paid links for the first time ever. Way to go Google.

Would it be best to hire an SEO VA who can build backlinks gradually or do you think a service which builds links on a one-off basis such as backlink packages would be better suited?

There is all sorts of SEO companies promising the earth so I know you need to be careful about which one to hire especially as backlinks can even cause harm to sites now due to Google's misguided attempt to combatting webspam.
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  • If it were me I would trust a VA who I told exactly what to do vs. some "expert" selling SEO services.

    If you read these forums much you realize that it is the blind leading the blind as far as good SEO practices are concerned.
  • I wouldn't hire a VA unless you know exactly what you need from them on a daily basis. I mean EXACTLY. If you don't, then I would definitely suggest hiring someone that knows what they are doing to do your SEO for you. I also wouldn't hire anyone on a one time basis. You need to be consistent in your link building and all of this one off services provide vary little ROI.
  • I am interested in what people have to say about this too...
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  • i suggest you to start work by yourself, i think after the recent changes hiring someone is to not a good idea and more risky because there is also a chance of getting sandbox.
  • Depending on the penalty it's possible. If you were paying for SEO before then you DID buy backlinks. I run SEO company and only 1 of my customers was hit, but we got them back within first 2 weeks. Pm me your keywords and I can provide you with the advice.
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  • TolyZ --
    You said you got someone back in the first two weeks. I dont mean to be a buzzkill, but Penguin has only been out about 9 days.
  • I would never hire an SEO company to do SEO for my site. Not that I don't trust them but most of them are scams.

    I rely more on the experiment that I did with my own site. It makes me a better SEO practicioner as well
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    • The only time you can call a SEO company a scam is when
      1. They don't send a report

      Other than that, calling a SEO company a scam is going overboard.

      I know most business owners who just hire "SEO" companies when those companies just say they will do "SEO" for your site but they do not provide report to know what they have been doing the past 3 months and seeing no results.
  • It can be fine too if you hire a VA or some SEO services to help you rank back your site as long as they are going to do what you want to do - which is white hat SEO.
  • It’s better to hire some professional who can suggest you what should you do to recover from Google penguin update. Its not just about create more backlinks and your website will be back in ranking. Person should have some deep knowledge about search engine and have broad ideaabout how to recover from Google penguin
  • You would be better off ordering a few quality services here, than doing that. I dont trust any blind SEO
  • I don't know, many people have said that for pretty much 99% of the banned sites it's not possible to recover.

    Probably better to re-invest in a new site, maybe even a new niche if you have better ideas developed.
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    • Many people talk crap because they like believing the worst. Google even themselves have said that recovery is possible in most cases. Penguin is an algorithmic penalty, not a set penalty so it refreshes periodically based on signals.
  • Nasuryono has the best solution for you for the long term. SEO is in constant flux. If you have a brain that likes to test and analyse, you'll do better for yourself. And you'll only have yourself to blame when things go wrong - which, in my experience, only spurs me on to improve my techniques.
  • Hi there , may I ask how did you get page 1 for 20 sites without backlinks?
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    • He didn't say that he didn't use backlinks.
    • My sites did have backlinks, I only said I didn't use paid backlinking services.
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  • What was your backlink strategy then? There's a reason if you got penalized , the main thing to understand if you can recover back is to understand the reason behind your penality.
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    • I used social bookmarking, articles, web directories, videos and press releases.

      I have looked at the backlink anchor text in Open site explorer. Most of the backlinks anchor text are targetting my sites primary keyword, so I suspect that is the reason for the Penguin effect.

      A few of my sites were not affected by Penguin. Those sites have less backlinks than the ones which were affected so I suspect that there is some kind of threshold where if an unnatural anchor text ratio is above a certain link amount then the penalty is triggered.

      I can't think what else it could be because my sites which were not negatively affected still used the same backlink types as the affected sites, but just have less backlinks.

      You're not falling for Big G's "build it and they will come" nonsense are you?

      And how do you suggest people recover from Penguin just by focusing on creating content. There is obviously some kind of algo penalty in place and just by waiting for people to link naturally to your site to get you out of it will be like waiting for England to win the world cup.
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  • Well, according to me Hiring a SEO company will be just a foolishness to revive the penguin Havoc. I would suggest you to do SEO jobs by your own, I mean recruit some good SEO experts.
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    Hiring SEO Companies to revive from Penguin havoc?

    Has anyone here hired an SEO company to help recover their sites from the Penguin update? I've had over 20 sites negatively affected by the Penguin, so to recover them myself would take ages even if it is possible. I was at a $2000/month level before I got hit by Penguin so im prepared to pay decent money to recover them.