Did you successfully recover from panda / penguine / hummingbird updates?

Would be interesting to hear if any of you were hit by any of those updates and then successfully recovered from them.

What did you exactly do (or didn't do)?

 

The worst effect that happened to me (us) was when they implemented Penguin - because then was a big change in the way of indexing the content. After that in 2 weeks we recover the earlier positions and that's it.
About Hummingbird - the decrease was of MAX 3 position for some websites but we recover it very fast.
Regarding what solutions we use - it seems that I can't share them here

 

no recover yet

 

Its Very hard to recover from these Updates. All you need to do is Go back Delete all your Backlinks and then ask Google to reconsider.

 

Lost half my total traffic (most of my Google traffic). Haven't recovered. I'm still getting 30K unique visitors a month, but it was 60K before Google dropped the bombs. Thankfully, my website is nonprofit.

 

yes , i think me success , and i am use follow step.
1) link spam remove by disavow tools and post link high pr and quality site .
2) copy and old content remove and new / quality content post on site
3) mis category link and post remove and category related post add .

use above step and now success....

 

peterson0, have you sent any reconsideration request to Google?

 

this time fight with penguin and keyword stuffing.

 

So then one would beg the Q: how do you recover from an algorithmic update? or is it even possible? By the way digitalpoint-ers... Happy Turkey Day!

 

Yes...I already recovered some website that google send sand box for spamming......I have removed maximum amount of bad link.....also trying to remove other. Whatever, the website is comming to rank once again.

 

@danmaster2012. Glad you asked. It also needed to be clarified

Algorithmic penalties typically come with no other warnings, they simply show up as a massive loss of keyword positions in the SERPs. For a manual penalty, you'll receive a message in Google Webmaster Tools, saying what were you penalized for.

If you didn't receive a message, then consider what you have done recently to cause this.

Basically, you should act the same way as when you receive a manual penalty - which means start fixing your website issues.

For example:
- remove all the new pages, if any (these might be the ones which caused the penalty) and 301 redirect all the URLs to the home page
- check the backlink profile and make sure that there were no bad links
- if you found any bad links, remove them (if possible) and create a disavow links file for the rest of them

But then again, the main problem with an algorithmic penalty is that you can never be 100% sure what caused it. All we can do with our websites is try to be intuitive and try cover as many problems as possible.

Once the site is clean and the disavowed links file was uploaded, resubmit the sitemap and wait for Google to recrawl the website (if you want to hurry the process, you can manually enter the website URL so that Google will crawl it).

As for the results, if all the issues were resolved, the website will recover - sometimes, some pages will no rank on the same positions as before. If not, you'll have to do the whole process all over again, trying to figure out which were the troubles causing the penalty.

Hope this helps!

 

No one give you 100% gaurentee, but you recover sometimes...