4 of 6 sites penalized today
It appears that 4 of my 6 sites got penalized today by big G. Most of these sites were all ranking #1 for their keyword phrases for the past 3 to 7 months. I generally check on rankings everyday and today I noticed 4 of my 6 websites have dropped anywhere from page 4 to nowhere to be found. All but one site are nowhere to be found (I stopped looking after page 15 of Google). These sites were fresh domains that I built links to slowy using 2 tiers (Tier 1 contextual only, Tier 2 kitchen sink). These sites were ranking for low to moderate competition local keywords. Most of the sites took about 1 to 2 months before they started ranking on first page. It appears that they all lost their rankings at the same time. I've checked my anchor text and links using Majesticseo and my anchor % for targeted keyword phrases are anywhere from 15 to 18%. No big loss of links either. Has anyone else lost rankings recently? Any suggestions on what to next with these sites?
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15-18% anchor seems high to me for a long term site. Was the % based on total links or refering domains?
I've been using Kontent Machine 2 for my Tier 1 articles and building Tier 2 off those. Should I stop this method with my sites that havnt been hit and stick with original content on web 2's for Tier 1?
Sounds like we have the same problem. I also used the strict link building methods recommended on this site. Looks like we be victims of Googles new update. I use lindexed & SEO indexer for my indexing. Might have to scrap those sites and start over.
nothing but ups for me.
A 6 year old establiished site that has been on page one for the last year with careful link building - and now today it's gone from search results completely.
I don't think an indexing service is going to help me here now but I will say that the only thing I did different was start using an index service a few weeks ago. Maybe it had nothing to do with it - maybe I didn't drip feed the links slowly enough to the service- maybe my site will reappear tomorrow - live and learn
ofcourse an indexing service will help you, it will help you index your new links you're going to need to build to get yourself out of that mess.
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@sweeppicker - My sites that were hit were old sites that had been hit by penguin before and i had managed to recover, using the methods you mentioned and by diluting anchor text. It seems to me that once a site is hit by penguin, G has it on it's radar for the next update too.
Maybe better to switch domains from now on, what do you think?
But, that is the case for nearly all my sites. The only ones that were hit were those with heavy anchor text % - So maybe a combination of both is the true cause.
I do have junk on tier 2 - But again that applies to all sites, not only the ones that were hit.
You are 100% right that they can be recovered, but don't be surprised if they are hit again in future updates. That's exactly what's happened to me.
My two sites that I showed SERP positions for both had around 50% exact match anchors pointing towards them.
@gooner my service can get you back at a faster rate than what any other indexing service can do in regards to indexing ratios as high as 70% in 10 days, the only way to get those rankings back is to build more links, that's fact, then index those links, these are both facts.
Disregard my service for a moment, just build links and get them indexed to counteract these drops in rankings.
I wasn't trying to doubt your service btw, i haven't tried it yet but by all accounts it's very good in terms of indexing rates and price.
Now i'm promoting it for you too! haha