Hi, I'm looking for people who have been victim of the MSSA or -950 (end of results) penalties, I'm not sure it isn't the same thing. Describe your site. When did your ranking dropped? Why do you think this happened to you? What have you done to fix the problem? did it work? My site: Age: Nov 2006 Topic: Clasifieds Numbers of competitors: ~10 Competitors websites quality: Old CMS based with very low SEO and user friendly design with lots of javascript Language: French Ranking on Other SE: Doing well on Yahoo! and MSN Inbound links: Not too many Outbound links:0 SEO : Valid Xhtml - No intentional Black hat Number of pages ~1000 Using AdSense: Yes Using AdWords: No Using GG webmaster tools Ranking for my top 4 keywords: 5 to 10 (.com & .fr & .co.ma googles) Ranking dropped dramaticly on March 22 Ranking back to normal on April 20 Ranking dropped again on April 27 Ranking for almost all keywords :990 to Nowhere (assuming supplemental are on) Number of indexed pages : No changes I think this happened because: I removed my sig from many forums I was active in. The lack of inbound links and the use of the same anchor text. Partialy duplicate content titles and descriptions. Same navigation menu/header/footer site wide (~1000 internal links pointing to the home page) Fixes: I readded my sigs with different anchor text I added more inbound links I replaced the navigation menu and some duplicated portion with external javascript I wrote a script that updates the sitemap.txt file Used almost unique titles and descriptions Did it work? I'm still waiting Please share your experience!
My site: Age: Dec 2006 Topic: Link Directory Numbers of competitors: 100+ Language: Swedish Ranking on Other SE: Doing well on Yahoo! and MSN Inbound links: <200 Outbound links:1000+ SEO : Standard, some low quality content Number of pages ~200 Using AdSense: Yes Using AdWords: No Using GG webmaster tools: YES Ranking for my top 4 keywords: Lots of long tail words was top 10 Fixes: Some link building, mainly from directories Removed some internal linking Added about 500 new pages Removed some of the low quality content Havn't seen any changes...
I think the following are the main factors in my experience: Use of the same anchor text. Partialy duplicate content titles and descriptions.