Got hacked and just after... An Alghoritmic penalty

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websitedesign

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Mar 6, 2016

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• Oct 2, 2020

• #1

Hello guys, am asking for your help as for today am truly desperate.

On september 29th got hacked with webmaster warning about that, I rapidly removed the hack (and webmaster told me the manual actions is lifted). But for more than 128 hours now I have all positions down to 70- nowhere and traffic cute by more than 70%, https://prnt.sc/uryi62 .

Possible causes :

• Revanished (in better way) many old content to improve readability
• PBN using (many too much sidebars)

What I think to do ?

1. Redirect 301 the domain to a good drop, as with 1 to 70 positions I guess the restore will take months
2. Disavow a big part of sidebar links

What do you think ? Any advices ?

 

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RayBay

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Sep 4, 2013

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• Oct 2, 2020

• #2

According to your graph you are back to your augusts positions. Not the worst performance you could expect. Any messages in GSC?

 

itz_styx

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• Oct 2, 2020

• #3

since you changed lots of the old content, that could also be the reason. you should have left it as it is if it was ranking well.

 

Nut-Nights

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• Oct 2, 2020

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Nobody can answer correctly unless, we saw domain and check backlink profile. You need to find the problem yourself and possible solution.

 

Mr Positive

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• Oct 2, 2020

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Difficult to answer but wait for few days before you take any action

 

Dark Sky

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• Oct 2, 2020

• #6

you played this kind of stupid. Remember, it's just an algorithm, just lines of code that determine your rankings.

If I change an article today, it drops rank, I restore it to the previous version and the rank returns. It's just an algorithm, those lines of code don't change based on your actions.

Take a daily backup, if it gets hacked, restore a backup before the hack happened, everything is back to normal.

 

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MisterXYZ

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• Oct 2, 2020

• #7

websitedesign said:

• PBN using (many too much sidebars)

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This may be real cause.

Anyway incase of heavy fluctuation in ranking, better to wait for 1-2 weeks before taking further action.

You are touching too many variables at at time.

 

AKQJ10

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• Oct 2, 2020

• #8

I would check the technical SEO of the site for any damage caused by the hack, for example internal links, canonical links, meta tags, plugins (if WP), things like that. Basically try to find anything on the site affected by the hack.

I would also wait for 2-3 weeks as the content changed a lot. Google needs time to reindex.

IMO the PBN links are not the cause, since if Google detected them you would already see a manual penalty. But if the traffic decreases because Google stops counting those sidebar links, then removing them also doesn’t help.