My failed panda recovery experience

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Had one site get hit by Panda.

As it was a newer site my recovery plan was simple, redirect all the old urls to the home page and then create new urls for the old content and rebuild the links.

Shortly after redirecting the old urls to the home page my natural pre-seo rankings returned, little or no onpage penalties which was nice.

As I began rebuilding links the ranks fluctuated as expected up and dpown and finally disappeared completely again. A few days ago I noticed something in webmasters tools that we may all be able to learn from.

I was rebuilding my links with the occasional "click here" and such but mostly the links were the url addresses themselves. However the manner in which google parses those links I believe has sent me right back to the penalty box here is my thinking:

Lets say this is your site:
google will parse that to read like this:
www blue widget com large plastic blue widgets

and thus the keywords are separated and exposed just like a normal anchor text link. Thisis the only reason I can think of for my site rankings falling again.

Has anyone else confirmed or even experienced something like this?
#experience #failed #panda #recovery
  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    I'm sorry Mr. President, but this has not happened to me yet.
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  • This is the first time i hear like this. Don't have anything to say this.
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  • Profile picture of the author dracoboar
    yeah i will be interested to see as the day progresses and more people come across this to see if anyone else has seen this issue before
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    • Profile picture of the author michaelrox27
      I have also not heard this thing before, so can not say anything. Is there anyone who can clear out this point?
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  • Profile picture of the author dracoboar
    Bump - due to several jackasses making bogus threads pushing everything down
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  • Profile picture of the author shayman
    I don't think that this is the reason. Whilst I have some sites that could confirm this, I have others that are doing fine with similar URL's.

    Also, what would be an alternative URL? page1, page2 page3....
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    • Profile picture of the author dracoboar
      Originally Posted by shayman View Post

      I don't think that this is the reason. Whilst I have some sites that could confirm this, I have others that are doing fine with similar URL's.

      Also, what would be an alternative URL? page1, page2 page3....

      can you explain your alternative url question.
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      • Profile picture of the author shayman
        Originally Posted by dracoboar View Post

        can you explain your alternative url question.
        Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick with your post. I was reading it that using long tail exact match in the page URL was the issue? Is that correct?
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        • Profile picture of the author dracoboar
          Originally Posted by shayman View Post

          Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick with your post. I was reading it that using long tail exact match in the page URL was the issue? Is that correct?
          Well yes and no, the issue is that since goolge parses the url and removes the dividers (like . or -) if you use keywords in your url then url links are seemingly the same as exact match anchor text links.

          For instance everyone knows now after the panda (or was it penguin) update not to create too many exact match anchor text links, but if you create url links and they are parsed google may read it the same as an exact match link.

          I am curios if anyone else has experienced this and been penalized or is there some mechanic that even though google parses the url link it for some reason doesn count the keyword terms inside them?

          (just to be clear I am talking about when you use the url for a page as the anchor text for a link, not the html code part)
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