How to recover from Penguin penalty?
- SEO |
If you visit the top SEO blogs out there like Searchenginejournal, Searchenginewatch etc. you will sometimes see posts on recovering from Penguin, identifying a negative SEO attack, guides on removing bad back links etc.
First off if you read this study on Moz you will see that the Penguin algorithm targets sites who have 50% or more of their anchor texts as money keywords. They analysed a few thousand website to come to this conclusion. Also if you have too many links from sites that are not relevant to your niche then too Penguin may affect you.
However what irritates me the most is that they always suggest Link Detox for this. From their posts it seems that Link Detox is some magical tool that would automatically erase all the spammy links that have attached themselves to their sites. But it is quite a simple automated tool -- which asks you to enter your URL -- and then finds the bad links and tells you that you need to disavow them.
When it shows the bad links, just to make you jump they will name it as toxic.
I feel that the reason why those SEO blogs suggest this tool may be because they have their clients as some huge e commerce site or finance sites who can afford shelling out that much.
I find that option very costly since automated queries can cost as much as $1800 per month.
There are also many tools like Ahrefs, majestic SEO which will show you your backlinks but again they too are very costly.
A month ago I discovered a tool called Monitor Backlinks that has the potential to help us recover from Penguin penalty because it can identify hard to find bad back links. The service is quite reliable as they fetch back links with the help of ahrefs api and when ahrefs starts at $79 per month this one is very cheap at $19 per month.
If you connect with Google analytics then these guys send you e mails whenever new links are built and whenever links are lost.
It would be perfect for someone who fears a negative SEO campaign or wants to monitor the progress of a link building service.
There are however a few problems:
One is that if you give a random link in the back link checker it would pull only 300 of the root domains. If you have ever built backlinks from some automated tool you will realise that the number of total back links will always be much much more than the root domains, but the root domains are the ones where the link is actually located.
So I feel pretty ok with it.
The paid tool checks up to 1000 links to your site( root domains).
Once you enter your url and check the links, the only job that remains is to export all the backlinks to the disavow tool
First off if you read this study on Moz you will see that the Penguin algorithm targets sites who have 50% or more of their anchor texts as money keywords. They analysed a few thousand website to come to this conclusion. Also if you have too many links from sites that are not relevant to your niche then too Penguin may affect you.
However what irritates me the most is that they always suggest Link Detox for this. From their posts it seems that Link Detox is some magical tool that would automatically erase all the spammy links that have attached themselves to their sites. But it is quite a simple automated tool -- which asks you to enter your URL -- and then finds the bad links and tells you that you need to disavow them.
When it shows the bad links, just to make you jump they will name it as toxic.
I feel that the reason why those SEO blogs suggest this tool may be because they have their clients as some huge e commerce site or finance sites who can afford shelling out that much.
I find that option very costly since automated queries can cost as much as $1800 per month.
There are also many tools like Ahrefs, majestic SEO which will show you your backlinks but again they too are very costly.
A month ago I discovered a tool called Monitor Backlinks that has the potential to help us recover from Penguin penalty because it can identify hard to find bad back links. The service is quite reliable as they fetch back links with the help of ahrefs api and when ahrefs starts at $79 per month this one is very cheap at $19 per month.
If you connect with Google analytics then these guys send you e mails whenever new links are built and whenever links are lost.
It would be perfect for someone who fears a negative SEO campaign or wants to monitor the progress of a link building service.
There are however a few problems:
One is that if you give a random link in the back link checker it would pull only 300 of the root domains. If you have ever built backlinks from some automated tool you will realise that the number of total back links will always be much much more than the root domains, but the root domains are the ones where the link is actually located.
So I feel pretty ok with it.
The paid tool checks up to 1000 links to your site( root domains).
Once you enter your url and check the links, the only job that remains is to export all the backlinks to the disavow tool
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