Cash, your methods have made me some good money in the past and I have to thank you for that.
However all my sites tanked after Penguin and have yet to recover any rankings.
I have pretty much cleaned up everything onsite, totally diluted the anchor word text, and nothing works. I found it really easy to hit PR2 within a couple of weeks using your stuff, but now I have articles and PR0s with 2 or 3 backlinks outranking me. Inner pages are completely gone.
I'm just wondering if you've had any success recovering rankings with any site.
I'm thinking, as my competitors also got wiped out of the map, it would probably be easier to start again, new site, clean link profile and build slowly.
What do you think?
Same boat, here - completely devastated. Right after penguin, my travel website (>30,000 monthly) tanked from being in the top 3 listings for the last 3 years down to page #40 and was replaced with trashy competitors who had no content and only sell holiday homes. Today, the top 10 results are a slew of 3 Wikipedia pages, 1 Wikitravel site, 3 youtube videos, and 3 useless sites with no content selling holiday homes or some other trash. The second page has 7 tripadvisor links! My homepage has now dropped to page 60 and dropping fast.
I'm seeing this in more and more search results. Do a search for "knife sharpeners" and all top 10 results are amazon links! I just can't compete anymore and get the feeling that they want to eliminate us (the middlemen) completely and fill the web with Google+, big corps, youtube, wikipedia, etc. I hope the FTC destroys them soon.
For the last two weeks I have done 5 blasts of the web 2.0 link pyramid using LSI keywords, sent out press releases to a few sites, did a 10000 blast with scrape box using ONLY niche-related URLS and niche related comments with a huge diversity in anchor text, and now virtually ALL of my keywords are not in the first one hundred listings of google. Slam! Yesterday, was the first day that my organic traffic dropped to virtually nothing. Mind you, this is a
very high quality site with over 300 pages of unique content and the only site with a comprehensive travel guide to this region.
pre-penguin: 1500 UV daily
June 8: <100 UV
Am I panicking too early? There is no unnatural links warning in GWT, and the site is fully indexed.
I realize this could be a Google dance, but I have never experienced such an extreme drop on a domain that is 3+ years old? Can somebody shed some light? I have read a ton of information about a site dancing for NEW domains, but how long does it take to get out of the dance for OLDER domains after building link pyramids?