In this article, I also add sentence like this 'You can choose this toy when you join your friends wedding'
and I also send a link to my wedding website in the same article
is there any info that google can use to link both sites to you? Like, for example...
- are they added to the same GSC?
- are they hosted on the same IP?
- did you se the same name / email / physical address / phone number to register the domains?
- etc...
Even if google can see that both sites belong to you, I am not saying with 100% certainty that this is why you got penalized, but it's an option to consider
I have 9 websites, 4 got punished by Google
you need to find the common denominator between the 4 sites that got penalized and this will give you a better understanding of why they tanked while the other 5 sites didn't.
So, start looking for clues.... check when the sites got tanked and remember what you've done on, or around that date to all 4 sites (either you've build links from a certain site / agency / source, or you've completely changed the niche of those 4 sites, etc)... look for clues everywhere (in the content, in the backlinks, in the server / IP on which those 4 sites are hosted, etc.)
Does disavow still work now?
sometimes it can work, but most of the times I hear that it doesn't, so I wouldn't bother with it...
Also, google uses the disavow tool as a trap to fool people into giving themselves away, so don't disavow if you're not 1000% sure that the backlinks are the problem. Google might not be able to figure out whether the links you've gotten are built / purchased by you, or whether they've been obtained organically, so they penalize you to trick you into panicking and immediately disavow the links that you
know are bad, which is how google will get the confirmation they need that you're a link builder and that they should penalize your sites. So, don't fall into this trap, and avoid using disavow. Google ignores most bad links anyway....
or I need to start a new website?
I mean, if the domains are still registered for months you can let the sites sit idle, nothing wrong with that and one day they might come back, especially since there seems to be a new google update floating around, so it's possible that your sites got penalized (wrongly or not) by this update and that they'll come back when the update is finished (in 2-3 weeks usually....)
The sites don't have much traffic yet
very few sites of newbies have a lot of traffic in the beginning, so don't lose hope yet
Keep working on all 9 sites as you would normally do (publish new content, update / improve the outdated one, build internal links between the relevant pages, keep building external links slowly but continuously - preferably to the pages that already have traffic to make things look as natural as they can be, etc.)... so, keep doing these for a few more months (until the eventual google update hopefully passes), and if nothing changes (and unless you figure out in the meantime what went wrong, of course) then you can abandon them. But I still think you should care about them until their domains expire, maybe one of those sites make a miraculous comeback. With google of today you never know where the rabbit springs from
