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Google Penalty Fix

My main domain was hit along with others with the new updates. I started to recently notice that www. in front of my domain has disappeared in the search results. All of my backlinks were done using www. in front of the domain.

So just a few days ago I used the .htaccess to forward www.domain.com to domain.com and it jump right back up to my main ranking keyword. It is back where it used to be.

It had to be Google that did this because I made no changes in my hosting account to cause this to happen.
#fix #google #penalty
  • Profile picture of the author kpmedia
    When the forwarding works as it should, penalties will be passed to the new domain.
    That's a VERY temporary fix.
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    • Profile picture of the author JackiPigford
      Originally Posted by kpmedia View Post

      When the forwarding works as it should, penalties will be passed to the new domain.
      That's a VERY temporary fix.
      Yes I agree. can you share what we can do to pass the penalties?
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    • Profile picture of the author JoelDean
      Originally Posted by kpmedia View Post

      When the forwarding works as it should, penalties will be passed to the new domain.
      That's a VERY temporary fix.
      Why did the www disappear in the first place? It started I think around July but I am not sure when I started to notice it. Without www. in the seach results all of my backlinks were devalued completely. This brought them all back.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    >>
    So just a few days ago I used the .htaccess to forward www.domain.com to domain.com
    >>

    Didn't you just answer your own question? When you did this "just a few days ago"...you obviously didn't do it before...means you had a duplicate issue with your site before. You cannot force Google how it indexes your site..it saw the essentially two sites (the one WITH www. and the one without)...and decided to index you without the WWW part.

    By the way this has nothing whatsoever to do with a penalty.
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    This isn't a way to fix a penalty at all as others have suggested.

    Penalties more often than not are directly related to the links pointing to the website. Start by removing the links that aren't of any value and over-optimizing your backlink profile. After a solid link removal campaign move onto disavowing links that couldn't be removed and aren't helping.
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  • Profile picture of the author georgefuller
    well once you got penalized you have to analyze your backlinks especially your incoming links. track down the links that pulls you down. they are the banned, block or even the dead links along with site wides must be removed. after that you have to submit a reconsideration then you have to create a new or fresh links because most of your backlinks is now dead.
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  • Profile picture of the author KyGunator
    1. Redirect the page with bad links to a new blank page on a different URL.

    2. Replace that page with a new one, with a different name.

    Example:

    Penalty page:
    dogtraining.com/dogs
    redirect to:
    xyz.com/xyz

    Make a new page:
    dogtraining.com/dogtraining

    and rank that one.
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  • Profile picture of the author affilorama-portal
    I think your problem is having a duplicate issue as what GeorgR. pointed out. You need to properly redirect your duplicate link (the non www) to www to resolve this if you want the www indexed by Google. But remember that it will affect your rankings.
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