How to fix SEO after google update

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I have used some black hat SEO services on my site such as Link Packages and those cheap Fiverr SEO gigs where you just give them the link and keyword you want to increase rankings for. Long story short I went from 150-200 hits per day for 6 months to 2-10 hits per day in the past 2 months. Yes, I have learned my lesson..Sales are way down.

But it's time to move forward so how can I fix this? How can I find those bad links pointing to my site and delete them? Google Disavow tool?

What would you suggest I do to recover my site.
#fix #google #seo #update
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Buy a new domain and start over.
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    • Profile picture of the author xMizzlex
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Buy a new domain and start over.
      Agreed. Also, resist the urge to do it again.
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    • Profile picture of the author cpa-money
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Buy a new domain and start over.
      i tried with new sub domain on a domain that had been effected by panda and it worked.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by cpa-money View Post

        i tried with new sub domain on a domain that had been effected by panda and it worked.
        His site was not impacted by Panda.
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    • Profile picture of the author patco
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Buy a new domain and start over.
      Yes, this is the ONLY right decision you could make. And NEVER forget your lesson!
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  • Profile picture of the author atmosphere13
    What if that isn't an option? My domain is a really good name and I want it for the business. I'm sure there have been guys who rebuilt their site from google updates..
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    • Profile picture of the author TheSecretsOfSEO
      Originally Posted by atmosphere13 View Post

      What if that isn't an option? My domain is a really good name and I want it for the business. I'm sure there have been guys who rebuilt their site from google updates..
      Hmm...

      Okay, I can help you reverse engineer this issue.

      PM me if interested - But before you do, tell me what you think you did wrong as your old habit.

      Building crappy links?
      Crappy content?
      Etc
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    • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
      Originally Posted by atmosphere13 View Post

      What if that isn't an option? My domain is a really good name and I want it for the business. I'm sure there have been guys who rebuilt their site from google updates..
      It's always an option. Take the emotion out of the equation. People spend MONTHS and MONTHS trying to get their rankings back. There are no guarantees. At the very least build another website as a back up plan.
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  • Atmosphere,

    I think the easiest thing for you to do would be to start over however if you want to forge ahead, you can start to fix things.

    So if the only thing you did was buy bad links, you will have to get them removed. The first step to doing that is reaching out to the websites those links are on and asking them to remove them. You can look at webmaster tools or some other third party software to see links to your site. You can also look ad referral data from any tracking you may have to see what bad sites may be sending you traffic.

    You mentioned the disavow links tool and this is really a last resort. I think there is a lot of misconception about this tool in terms of when it should be used. Google introduced this tool as a last resort method for webmasters who had exhausted every avenue for getting links removed. If you just submit a disavow link request and you have no supporting documentation that you tried to get the links removed, they will ignore it.

    So if you want to fix this, get on the phone, send out emails, or otherwise try and open up a line of communication between yourself and the sources of these bad links. Keep records of your activities and if you should fail, then you can ask Google for help.

    More on the tool,

    Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A new tool to disavow links

    Hope that helps you and good luck,

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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    Remove all the link you think were the reason for your downfall. Then start over again. Do a bit research as well before starting again, as to what links you should build.
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  • Profile picture of the author interresult1
    perfect suggestion

    only follow the white hat SEO
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    • Profile picture of the author jamestyson
      1.Write Better Content
      2.Stop your old / bad practices

      3.Embed SEO into everything you do

      4.Keep Changing!
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    • Profile picture of the author Karan Rawat
      Originally Posted by interresult1 View Post

      perfect suggestion

      only follow the white hat SEO
      But how can we differentiate White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO...
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  • Profile picture of the author Emicorn
    Don't worry friend. You still have possibilities to recover your site. You have to go step by step. You can take my below suggestions and believe me, you will achieve far better position in long run.

    1st of all, we have to bring the lost traffic to the website. You should concentrate more on social media site now. LinkedIn is a better option to get sales leads. Facebook and twitter are better to get traffic.

    2ndly for your website, concentrate more on fresh content. Articles, press release and blog posting is the best way. Get back links from these submissions. If possible then setup a blog onto your website and give regular updates on that.

    Ethical search engine optimization service is always good. Otherwise unethical process will cause such issues which you are facing. Google has launched "disavow" service to address such issues. Using this service you can make request to Google not to count those bad links for your website. You should also send manual requests to webmasters to remove links for your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author davidfrankk
    Google updates are something to be happy about. They reduce the spammy site which use unethical SEO techniques to rank themselves above your site. All you have to do is understand what Google wants and follow those simple steps. As soon as you try to act smart and get quick results, you should expect a sudden drop soon as Google will make sure to penalize any site not following guidelines.
    The recent Panda update that took place in Feb 2013, made quite a few webmasters uncomfortable. If you were also adversely affected by it, here is how you can recover from it.
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  • Profile picture of the author LiftMyRank
    Don't wrestle with a penalized domain, it ain't worth it, recoveries are rare, just dump it, rinse your hands clean and start fresh....
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by John Moore View Post

      Don't wrestle with a penalized domain, it ain't worth it, recoveries are rare, just dump it, rinse your hands clean and start fresh....
      It seems very silly. That means all someone needs to do is some negative SEO with some link packages and cheap fiverr gigs on a site they don't own and then someones site is tainted in Google's eyes and the person has to dump their site and start afresh. Something very wrong there.
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    • Profile picture of the author micksss
      Originally Posted by John Moore View Post

      Don't wrestle with a penalized domain, it ain't worth it, recoveries are rare, just dump it, rinse your hands clean and start fresh....
      Would you recommend putting all the content from the penalized domain on the new domain or do you have to start completely fresh?
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  • Profile picture of the author dddougal
    It will be your onsite seo that has gone wrong, external factors don't effect you negatively.
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by dddougal View Post

      It will be your onsite seo that has gone wrong, external factors don't effect you negatively.
      That's wrong. Particularly since penguin poor quality links have an adverse affect on a sites ranking. If external factors had no effect negetively then why would Google have released a linkdisinvow tool?
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by dddougal View Post

      It will be your onsite seo that has gone wrong, external factors don't effect you negatively.
      So you have apparently been in a coma the past year. Well, welcome back to the world. You've missed a lot.
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      • Profile picture of the author manis11
        i too have a site which ranks high in google , but now even to index the new post it takes more than 24 hours.. whats going on ?
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  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    Follow only the White hat seo path from now on, and try to undo what you did with black hat .. if you can, or seek professional help. (SEO help)
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  • Profile picture of the author JMac
    Personally, I'm on the fence about Google actually penalizing your site for having bad links. I am leaning more toward Google not counting them at all. If Google penalizes those links, I can spam the crap out of them using my compatition and get him to lose rank. If Google just devalues them, the sites using them lose rank and they can not be used as a weapon against others. Dont forget, Matt Cutts was never on the actual ranking algoritum team. Matt was a part of the anti-spam team before becoming the spokesperson so you have to put a filter on what he says.

    My opinion is that your site lost rank because Google devalued your links. now it is time to start creating better links of good quality using blog posting, guest posting, web 2.0 like squidoo and weebly and forum posting NOT forum profiles.

    I could be wrong and I frequently am.
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    • Profile picture of the author satrap
      Originally Posted by JMac View Post

      ... If Google penalizes those links, I can spam the crap out of them using my compatition and get him to lose rank....
      Have you not heard of negative SEO and Google's link disavow tool!?...
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    Based on above explanation, I would like to add that make use of Google Webmaster Tool too.
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  • Profile picture of the author perruci
    White hat SEO is the best now. Just build quality backlink to your site, and I believe, you will get Good position again if you are using white-hat SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhartzer
    Atmosphere13, I would start by running a link detox report on the site--to truly identify the toxic links and try to get those removed. There are probably links out there that aren't that great--but they're not really hurting your site. Link Research Tools lets you run a link detox report for really cheap, like for $1 or a tweet.

    Google's Disavow Tool works, and I've seen plenty of sites recover--but only after they disavowed the toxic links.

    Once you've taken care of that, don't worry too much about the past--get really good high quality links to the site in the future and you will eventually recover the lost traffic and sales.
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by bhartzer View Post

      Google's Disavow Tool works, and I've seen plenty of sites recover--but only after they disavowed the toxic links.

      Once you've taken care of that, don't worry too much about the past--get really good high quality links to the site in the future and you will eventually recover the lost traffic and sales.
      But since the disinvow tool was released their hasn't been any penguin update refreshes, so what update are the sites recovering from which used the disinvow tool?
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  • Profile picture of the author bhartzer
    cooler1, they're not recovering from an update per se because of an update (there wasn't one), they're recovering because they got rid of toxic links to their site.
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