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Penalized sites hard to recover?

by Joseph Then
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It's kind of strange but no matter how many links (high PR, low PR) I build, some of my sites remain in 500+ places.

Is it possible that some sites are seen as "No more ranking, but I'll still index you" status?

Or could it be negative SEO, where some links I got in the past still pulls down my sites?
#hard #penalized #recover #sites
  • Profile picture of the author nekwf
    I'm facing the same problem here too. My site is currently stuck around page 32-ish.

    Do you know what was it that you got penalized for?
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    • Profile picture of the author Joseph Then
      Originally Posted by nekwf View Post

      I'm facing the same problem here too. My site is currently stuck around page 32-ish.

      Do you know what was it that you got penalized for?
      I took time to slowly build quality backlinks so that it looks natural but my rankings are still out of the top 10.

      I may want to try building new links to a new domain or page to see if that ranks.

      But it would be good to hear from others too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trabalhodigital
    OK so,
    I got hit by Penguin on April
    On August I received the unnatural links message
    Sent the reconsideration in September
    ON 10th october I got the "manual spam action revoked" message
    Until now, No improve in ranking
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    • Profile picture of the author Trabalhodigital
      Originally Posted by Trabalhodigital View Post

      OK so,
      I got hit by Penguin on April
      On August I received the unnatural links message
      Sent the reconsideration in September
      ON 10th october I got the "manual spam action revoked" message
      Until now, No improve in ranking
      I guess I know my problem now

      Google revoked the Manual penalization
      However, according to WMT, my site is still found by anchor keywords on most of the times ( I know which sites are , because WMT shows )
      And the number seens to not stop - Or I buid pelnty of good links using raw URL
      OR I will have to use the disavow tool

      I dont know why they revoked the pensalization, since I couldnt remove all the unnatural links. Tough I tried.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaisonjohn
    Cross check the below mentioned factors to know the actual issue:

    1) Build up only quality back links for the website.
    2) Work on onsite changes and add quality content to the website.
    3) Collect quality submission list for performing offsite activities.
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  • Profile picture of the author radivoj
    I tried so bad to recover one site in acne niche it was hit by panda April this year site was ranked #1 and drop the ranking all the way to page 10 I tried every possible methods from getting links from articles, web 2.0, high PR blog network , social bookmarks, press release, tweeter, Google +1, high PR blog commenting and so on I could get site to page 5 not any closer to page 1 I could not pass page 5 so I give up on the site and I notice sites that got hit by any Google penalty the ranking process goes extremely slow..my recommendation if you are trying to recover by panda hit domain just move on to another and build content and links....
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  • Profile picture of the author jovykhan
    IMO, penalized site is penalized site. You bear the indelible mark. What you probably need is to work on your content first and then submit a reconsideration.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyborgX
    Google Penalizes sites where there is spam or duplicate contents. So its better not try to recover the site. You can build your site with unique content, you can change your URL name then upload the site on the server again and do some SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author jclindayag
    Hi Joseph Then!

    I don't know what is your specific problem because I am not able to get further details from you site. Just check out the guidelines of Panda and Penguin and you might see the problems that you are in.

    It is possible that you have over optimized your keywords. In this case, you have to maintain a balanced link diversity and start using naked links to bring the balance back.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jospeh31
    Some sites are manually reviewed and penalized. Check your Webmaster Central for any messages.
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  • Profile picture of the author walia072
    Yes for promoting number of back-links really not matter, one must follow webmaster guidelines and yes penalized sites are hard to recover.
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  • Profile picture of the author hadtic
    I had a site hit after Penguin and was not in the top 1000 for my main 2 keywords now i have one back at position 11 and the other at position 30 and with a bit more effort and tweaking should be back on the front page soon. I did extensive Panda Recovery onpage and only got links from relevant sites which i will build up over the next few weeks and hopefully get back on page one. This was a massively competitive niche in the UK so if you have been hit then i would recommend you review both onpage and off page factors as it has worked so far for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    If your site is not that popular (still in 500+ positions) then it will be better to build a new site on new domain rather than spending time for recovering from any penalty.
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    • Profile picture of the author Trabalhodigital
      Originally Posted by webdevpro View Post

      If your site is not that popular (still in 500+ positions) then it will be better to build a new site on new domain rather than spending time for recovering from any penalty.
      If that is true, I d better expect visits from Bing and yahoo and forget about Google
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Then
    OK, I plugged my website in GWT and I realized that my dropped in traffic (ie. rankings) happens during 26-27 of September.

    What happen during this Google dance? EMD problems? Mine isn't an EMD domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart william
    If your website was affected by any update then it will be quite difficult to recover it. Try to find the actual issue so that you can create a strategy accordingly.
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  • Profile picture of the author JK Nyerere
    Originally Posted by Joseph Then View Post

    It's kind of strange but no matter how many links (high PR, low PR) I build, some of my sites remain in 500+ places.

    Is it possible that some sites are seen as "No more ranking, but I'll still index you" status?

    Or could it be negative SEO, where some links I got in the past still pulls down my sites?
    Is your domain less than a year old?

    If so, it could just be the Google sandbox.
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