Hi friends,I hope you all are doing great.Around 20 days ago my site was on 1st page for all keywords but all of sudden it went from 1st page to 5th or 6th page.I found it like -50 penalty.Now i am hoping for the best in upcoming 1 month.Please help me with the way what should i do to get back my site as soon as possible.If anyone have practical experience of -50 penalty and what's the minimum and maximum time a site take to come back?
How can you be sure when even Google engineers do not know the specifics of Google Algorythm...In any case, if you were penalized, by removing the reasons for which you were penalized, you will be back to your due spot. Only you know why you were penalized...
This is no penalty, there is no penalty, this is just backlink devaluation and filtering. Keep adding quality in content editorial backlins from trusted and authority websites and you will get back.
I believe you may have done something shady and maybe some folks reported you to Google and then some engineer at Google agreed with them and put your site in a penalty. Who knows? You will best know the reason why, I guess....unless your site is new, and then it might be Google Dance. You know, there are PLENTY of people doing shady stuff all the time, and yes, penalties really do exist for them, to deny they exist is to live in dreamland. Google does dish out penalties. Just go to the Google Webmaster forum and you will see a fraction of the cases there of people asking why their traffic dropped. Many of the times, those were indeed penalties. What you can do is go into Google Webmaster Tools and Request Reconsideration. But only after you determined what you did wrong. If you are not sure, try asking at the Google Webmaster Forum, there are Google Employees there who frequently answer questions. GL.
No. It means they've changed their algo again. When a site has 500 backlinks one day and none the next, that suggests a penalty.
It sounds more to me like you lost some good links or were trumped by compettitors, unless you were doing something shady I dought it is a penalty.
I had -600 penalty. My site dropped off the indexes COMPLETELY. It was placed in supplemental results. The solution is to remove whatever made you get the penalty in the first place. After you remove the penalty causing content your site will regain its previous ranks within about 2 weeks.
have you changed your title tags and meta tags ? I faced similar situation when I modified my tags and went down in 80 and 90s I am still not able to rank for those keywords
Only one way if you want quicky back for top ranking is use redirect for new domain. Redirect will move all important things (include keywords ranking), just.... - without penalty