Please before anyone tells me to build quality links READ the full article, PLEASE! I have several websites, one was on top of Page 1 of Google, I used regular article marketing creating and writing 4 unique posts per week, as well as then writing fresh content for ezine and the likes. I also did social book marking, blog commenting and web directory submissions. Then around 6 to 8 weeks ago BANG, the site has fallen fo page 1 and it is hard to get it back up. People have claimed it was affected by the PANDA Algorithum Update on Google and classed as a "spammy site", but how? All the articles were unique, nother EVER copied and everything was written by me. Does anyone have any experience in getting their site back to the position it was previously? Regards, G
Dooh...that is what I have done and if YOU DID read the post it asks for people with experience to resolve the issue. All content was unique, fresh, relavent and of high quality, even my competitors used my articles and are still there - so why the hell have I been penalised? Putting rubbish comments such as you have is not helpful and only looked at to boost your posts.
Yes, but my articles were indexed before my competitors scrapped them, so Google would see that I was the originator.
Have you done something unexpected? Something that google might have considered unusual for your site? What is your site about?
Have you looked at the sites you link OUT to? Could they be considered 'spammy' by Google? A large portion of the sites affected by the latest update were content farms, such as ezine, that exist mainly to provide backlinks to other sites. Try adding content to your site that doesn't link out or only links out to real authority sites in the the same niche and go easy at writing your own backlinks via ezine etc.
No nothing unexpected...just normal link building and then BANG! Site is about digital signage, the different solutions etc.
Thanks, I used to post to ezine and have over 400 published articles. But I am trying to find out where the problem lies before I carry on link building. With regards to linking, I have 4 sites in the same niche and I link to each of them only (1 link per post only). I try to add a couple of posts per week to each blog that is on the same domain such as domain.com/blog etc. Is it worth a complete re-write of the website or only the webpages that are effected as it is only on one keyword, otherwise the site is as before...
Definitely NO Duplicate content - everything on my site, I wrote! Don't understand regarding site back link removed?
Sorry to hear your troubles. I'm kind of in the same boat. Up until 2 days ago I was #1 for my targeted keywords with an EMD. The last two days #6. I'm going to try some nonarticle marketing links in the next few days.
This happened to me 2 months ago. Up until now, I'm thinking maybe one of my back links from a blog comment caused this to happen. Others say that ezine is the culprit. We are no longer submitting articles to them. Instead, try guest posting. But choose a site that is reputable and with high PR.
we used to submit 16 articles per week to ezine...so we think this could be the issue. Even ezine will not comment - deadly silence on their blog.
It's very likely your relationship with eZine. Tens of thousands of websites were affected by Panda, and if you have links to a large number of sites that were "demoted" in ranking, there is a trickle-down effect. You're not alone. Google has all sorts of info on how web publishers can pull themselves up. This algorithm is far from perfect and is still being tweaked, but I appreciate Google's motives.
Do you submit original articles or content that is already on your website? I wouldn't publish anything on my website elsewhere. Then you leave it in the search engine's hands to decide who created it first.
well it also happen to few of my sites, i just kept building links for the last month and most of them got back to their place.