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My site, annihilated from the SERPs.

by JohnCitizen
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Not sure if it was the recent Penguin update, but my site was climbing the SERP ladder when suddenly it got destroyed.

All keywords lost. It's been 3 days already and it's looking less likely to be a Google dance.

The site is still indexed. If I search for the pages or relevant words to the URL, it appears.

But not for its keywords.

What should I do? New domain and restart? or stick with the site, identify my problems and try to do some better quality SEO?
#annihilated #serps #site
  • Profile picture of the author Ricebeans87
    Originally Posted by aaron655 View Post

    Not sure if it was the recent Penguin update, but my site was climbing the SERP ladder when suddenly it got destroyed.

    All keywords lost. It's been 3 days already and it's looking less likely to be a Google dance.

    The site is still indexed. If I search for the pages or relevant words to the URL, it appears.

    But not for its keywords.

    What should I do? New domain and restart? or stick with the site, identify my problems and try to do some better quality SEO?
    The same happened to me

    been ranking #1 for my keyword for months...

    now, since 3 days, it´s all gone... dont really know what to do.

    I got good content plus "good" links, using only whitehat methods.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by Ricebeans87 View Post

      The same happened to me

      been ranking #1 for my keyword for months...

      now, since 3 days, it´s all gone... dont really know what to do.

      I got good content plus "good" links, using only whitehat methods.
      what were your whitehat only methods ?
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  • Profile picture of the author jakecoop79
    Originally Posted by aaron655 View Post

    Not sure if it was the recent Penguin update, but my site was climbing the SERP ladder when suddenly it got destroyed.

    All keywords lost. It's been 3 days already and it's looking less likely to be a Google dance.

    The site is still indexed. If I search for the pages or relevant words to the URL, it appears.

    But not for its keywords.

    What should I do? New domain and restart? or stick with the site, identify my problems and try to do some better quality SEO?
    It's impossible to know for sure what happened. Google has succeeded in throwing chaos into SEO. What about your anchor text variation as well as just plain url links? Do you have lots of different anchors you are using and plain url links? If not, that is where I would start.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    This may be due to the latest penguin update that was happened about 3-4 days ago.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rhadoo7
      Originally Posted by webdevpro View Post

      This may be due to the latest penguin update that was happened about 3-4 days ago.
      So was it really another Google update 3-4 days ago? The initial Penguin update happened one month ago (around 20th of April).

      After the initial update my site dropped just 5-6 positions in the SERP, but now I've noticed a new drop of much more positions (from page 1 to page 4)

      So was it a new Google update in this period - 25-28 of May? Is there anything official about this?
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      • Profile picture of the author pasik
        Originally Posted by Rhadoo7 View Post

        So was it really another Google update 3-4 days ago? The initial Penguin update happened one month ago (around 20th of April).

        After the initial update my site dropped just 5-6 positions in the SERP, but now I've noticed a new drop of much more positions (from page 1 to page 4)

        So was it a new Google update in this period - 25-28 of May? Is there anything official about this?
        Yes, there was a Penguin update on May 25-26th.

        Google Releases Penguin Update 1.1
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