Seasoned veterans, help me out with this one. years ago I remember reading about different penalties. I specifically remember reading about a -30 penalty. Basically, you will get kicked down 30 notches. Another words, if you should be number 1, you will be 30. This doesn't happen for all searches, just one specific keyword phrase. Does any old school guys or girls remember this? Or am I insane?
Ah yes, the -30. I remember that. Haven't heard much chatter about it lately tho None of my clients are complaining about it. Bompa
hey, buddy, take easy. I suggest you to check your site's google index first, if your site's indexed pages were reduced, so it almost be penalized. And if your site's indexed pages were not changed or increased, it stands that google is re-indexed your sites. This will result your site lost its SERP provisionally. Just keep on updating your site's content and links. You will find that your site's SERP be back. Btw, one of my site just like your sites now, and even I can't find it on first 10th pages, but it's google indexed pages were increased. It's not bad. Just keep on working with it. And after 2 or 3 weeks, my SERP will back. that all
That was a blast from the past huh Bompa? And Endy, I know all the stuff you mentioned. This particular site wasn't deindexed, it's just the main keyword phrase is at 30. If this -30 penalty is still around, I just want to know what triggers it.
as far as i know if your site is still indexing by google its not penalized.. and if ever your rankings dropped its not penalty.. its just that there are thousands of site competing to get on top..
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There are various penalties i think, recovery times can be a little scary too, around 2 years for one of my sites that had been penalised, just when you think your site will never be back to normal, booom, they lift a serps penalty and return pr too.
Most of this kind of penalty happened because of too focused on one keyword by built link with only that anchor text. You may consider to vary keyword on the anchor text linking to your site to make your link profile balanced.
I think this must be whats happened to me. I added a keyword to my page title that I was already ranking for in a modest way. As soon as I added it I went up to page 3 on google. Then I proceeded to build all my links with that key phrase as my link anchor text and it got to position 10 after about a month. Then out of nowhere it shot down to page 6. It's climbed a little since then to page 5 but I'm really hoping it will climb more. I do hope it wont be two years before it does!! has anyone else experienced this? any Ideas on the time it takes to recover? still in top 5 positions in yahoo & bing though.
YES, it's still around along with many other penalties like the -60 as well However, this one is assigned for a single keyword and could be for one of those two reasons: 1- Over optimizing your anchor text using the same keyword as the text link 'Exact Match' 2- Page content is quite old, like it's been a while since you've updated your page One thing to mention tho, if the targeted keyword is marked as QDF 'Query Deserve Freshness' then this could be the trigger for the penalty second reason. Hope i was clear and helpful. Cheers
Another things to e aware of is that Google is continuously changing their algorithms.They are always working to make their search more relevant and in this way the way to calculate the algorithm and top search ranking changes. Focus on content and keeping your site clean of malicious and spam like content. Google is just trying to serve up the most reliable and targeted content to their viewers.
I think such ideas might be the old stories with no proof. Some people began talking about some ranking drops experiences they had in the past and then chose some names for them.
Your site URL? Main Keyword? Site ranking can drop for many reasons. It is quite possible that this is not a penalty and is just a fluctuation in ranking of your site.