Is it google dance or my website got penalized?

[bartosimpsonio]

No update that I can see. As others have said it's likely your site. Penalties do tend to come on weekends for some reason.

 

[Tom220]

You say it's low comp and these weaklings rank.

How many links do they have? Or rather, how much more do you have?

Are you trying to rank inner page or homepage? Homepage will have a hard time outranking inner page of authority site.

What is your content type? Informational / commercial etc. Commercial will have harder time ranking for information terms.

- They have 0-3 backlinks. Most of them don't have any.
- I rank my main page. It has more than 120 linking domains, more than 900 backlinks. MY DR is 27.
- The niche is Entertainment/Fashion

 

[tiiberius]

All 1st page are inner pages with 3 links.

Yours is homepage with 120.

Sorry, but you stand out like a sore thumb.

 

[Tom220]

All 1st page are inner pages with 3 links.

Yours is homepage with 120.

Sorry, but you stand out like a sore thumb.

What is wrong with this? I have quite a few decent links from decent sources

 

[tiiberius]

What is wrong with this? I have quite a few decent links from decent sources

Can't you see how your ranked page doesn't belong?

 

[Tom220]

Can't you see how your ranked page doesn't belong?

Sorry, I didn't understand your question at all.

Doesn't belong to what?

 

[tiiberius]

Sorry, I didn't understand your question at all.

Doesn't belong to what?

The 1st page.

Or maybe the keyword as a whole.

Do you have a strong site in the same niche? Try creating an inner page on it and see what happens. Build maybe 1-3 link to it.

 

[Tom220]

The 1st page.

Or maybe the keyword as a whole.

Do you have a strong site in the same niche? Try creating an inner page on it and see what happens. Build maybe 1-3 link to it.

I always create new pages on my website. They do not rank until I send new links to them but takes many weeks.
And none of my inner pages were ranking on the first page of Google, only my Main page, even though I was buying backlinks on my inner pages too.
They can rank on the first page only if it is the exact match

 

[tiiberius]

I always create new pages on my website. They do not rank until I send new links to them but takes many weeks.
And none of my inner pages were ranking on the first page of Google, only my Main page, even though I was buying backlinks on my inner pages too.
They can rank on the first page only if it is the exact match

I mean completely different site.

Maybe even big 3rd party site that is already ranking. Pinterest etc.

 

[Tom220]

I mean completely different site.

Maybe even big 3rd party site that is already ranking. Pinterest etc.

So you want me to create a board on Pinterest and send the links on it in order to test how does it rank?

 

[tiiberius]

So you want me to create a board on Pinterest and send the links on it in order to test how does it rank?

Your own site would be ideal.

The point is to prove what page type is working for the keyword.

On the other hand... it can all be just fluctuation and rankings will return in a week

 

[Tom220]

Your own site would be ideal.

The point is to prove what page type is working for the keyword.

On the other hand... it can all be just fluctuation and rankings will return in a week

Not only one keyword dropped down. All of them dropped from pages 1-3 to pages 7-9

 

[Tom220]

Anyone had similar situation?

 

[Nakasa]

There are times when things happen on google and no matter what you do you're never able to explain it. You need to understand that there is so much that google will not tell you. You just have to be sure that you are on the right track. You should therefore be monitoring your site all the time because you may have been hacked.

 

[Tom220]

There are times when things happen on google and no matter what you do you're never able to explain it. You need to understand that there is so much that google will not tell you. You just have to be sure that you are on the right track. You should therefore be monitoring your site all the time because you may have been hacked.

Hacked? What did the hacker do then?

 

[HenryObi]

I have a problem.
I had 8-9 keywords on the top 1-3 positions in Google for 6-7 months now. I was receiving decent amount of traffic from them.

But one week ago all those keywords (and all the keywords that were on 2 or 3 page) went down to page 8 or 9. Even the name of my website now is not on the first page of Google when you search for my website's name. Now there are social media of my website, the website itself is on the page 2.

There are no manual actions in the Google Search Console page.

Is it just google dance or I am having serious problems?
I reached these results by buying WEB2.0 links on BHW.

Your problem has signs of a penalty written all over it.

 

[Tom220]

Your problem has signs of a penalty written all over it.

Yes, I understand that.
What I have to do? There is no mention of penalty in my Google Search Console

 

[Tom220]

Here is the graph from my Google Search Console. You can see how hard the clicks dropped down.

 

[Soucha]

Yes, I understand that.
What I have to do? There is no mention of penalty in my Google Search Console

Well, sometimes the manual penalty messages take a little while to show up.

In the case of an algorithmic penalty, Google would keep you guessing, and not share any information with you.
In this case, if you don't know how to audit your website, then perhaps you should have somebody more experienced look deeper into it.

At the moment, we're kind of stuck playing a guessing game without any real information.

 

[Tom220]

Guys, I see that my drop in ranking happened at the same period as Google released it's new algorithm.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-december-2020-core-update/389543/-
What do you think about it? Can it be not the penalty, but the result of the algorithmic change? Or I try co console myself in vain?