I’ve been researching Google SEO for over 10 years and own over 100 domains and through SEO testing have had at least 20 domains banned/penalized in Google. I expected many of my SEO test sites to be banned or to gain a Google penalty since was testing SEO limits, so have a lot of experience with Google penalties and trying to recover from a Google penalty: both Google automated and manual penalties. Google Penalty for Selling Text Link Ads In 2008 I tried selling text links ads from a recipe/cooking site I own (used one of the popular text link seller sites) and after a lot of technical problems finally got the entire web site added to their text link […]
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Google Penalty Recovery
Good Luck with the Google penalty recovery! :D
Google Penalty Recovery Process
Thanks for the good luck on the Google penalty recovery.
So far almost 48 hours of pre penalty traffic, not quite fully recovered, but 7,000 visitors a day is much better than 1,200. Over the last few months the number of indexed pages has dropped dramatically from over 40,000 to 11,900 so those lost pages will account for the loss of about 5K traffic a day.
Interestingly the Free Recipe SERP in Google was at number 5 yesterday and number 3 today, so looks like there’s still some recovery on going. Number 3 for that SERP is better than I had pre Google penalty as well :)
I expect I’ll see tens of thousands more pages will be indexed over the coming month or so accompanied by an increase in traffic above 10K a day assuming the Google penalty recovery is permanent.
David Law
Google Penalty Recovery Process
Google Rankings Recovery
Hi,
WOW congrats on this….Also I read in one of your previous posts that your body condition is bad and your are suffering from some health problem…so how r u now?
SEO Penalty Recovery Failed!
I don’t believe it, roughly 7 days after the traffic recovered it died again!
The traffic hadn’t fully recovered, suspect because not all pages indexed, but it was heading for around 7,000 visitors a day which is a full Google SEO penalty recovery from the 3 month penalty and expected Google traffic to start to grow over the next month or so, unfortunately this happened to visitor numbers-
Even though I’m a very experienced SEO consultant I’m not sure what to think of this, first time I’ve had this occur!
Google apparently doesn’t like my recipe site :( If it weren’t for Google being a faceless business you could take something like this personally.
And to make matters worse my Clickbank sales are down significantly as well, last month made $3,000 in sales which was my best month yet, based on December so far looks like I’ll be lucky to make $1,000. Actually think I’ll be very lucky to break $1K as out of the $500 orders so far I’ve also had $200 in refunds!!!!
Will be the first month since tracking my affiliate revenue I’ve not increased month on month (5 months making more each month).
Would really suck if this was my only income, this is my ‘hobby’ income.
David Law
SEO Penalty Recovery Failed!
Google Penalty for Selling Links
Dave you are an inspiration to many, in fact I sometimes print your articles out in my English as a second language class and we go over them. Anyway.
1) Are you sure your google penalty was caused by selling links?
Why do I say this? Same thing happened to me and I do not sell links.
I have a PR5 wordpress site and it ranked high for most of my keywords for a long time. Then one day not too long ago, poof the fairy-tale was over, from the top 10 to 200 + in google rankings.
I made sure I was doing nothing bad, I was not. I cleaned up outbound links and other things and resubmitted to google. Then very soon I was back. Until this week again I was gone again, not completely but back into the 200+ postion.
2) I use wordpress and its SEOed. Do nothing bad. I think I know what I am doing. I think google might be
a) hand checking sites
b) changing things radically in its algorithm. I try to reduce duplicate content with robots plugin.
I do not know if this can help you, I am trying to figure it all out and let you know if I come up with anything.
In any event your sites are great. I am an American living in Poland and you could live very well on your website income alone.
Google Penalty for Selling Links
Google Banning Paid Backlinks Hypocrisy
Google moves in truly mysterious ways, I wonder how long before people start worshiping Google, or is that STOP worshiping Google??
I had a site penalised (I think) because I had a lot of backlinks from Yahoo answers forum (Yahoo likes me though!) I did have some blog backlinks – but they were my blogs!!
If I thought they would listen I would resubmit, but really I would rather do my own thing ad wait for Google to disappear up it’s own search engine. I wonder how they justify selling Adsense and then banning paid backlinks??? Do you see a massive difference?
Google Banning Paid Backlinks Hypocrisy