Hi!
I have around 10 domains that got penalized in April 2012 (Penguin 1). Domains had been spammed with lot's of blog comments (but good ones, only blogs where I spammed my comments with links, noone else).
Sites lost 95% of traffic and ranking and never came back.
I am running the following experiment now, and will tell you how it goes:
1) I created 5 new google webmaster accounts and added the 10 penalized domains (2 per webmaster account).
9 domains did not get a link warning, 1 domain received a link warning and got manually deindexed for 2 years now, bcz of the use of a link network.
2) I used webmeup detox service to get a list of all dangerous links per domain. Then created disavow files. Submitted them to google.
Around 10% of the links showed up as deadly, around 40% as dangerous, 50% of links good. I disavowed all deadly links + half of the dangerous links (I just kept the links with risk < 60%). So I disavowed around 30% of all links.
3) I wait for 3 weeks <- I am here NOW. Nothing happened so far. No changes in traffic or ranking.
As there is no change in the ranking after 3 weeks of waiting, I assume the disavow alone does not help and my plan is now:
4) I will register 10 new domains and put some unique content on it that is related to the content on the old penalized domains.
5) I will build 500 links from youtube and vimeo to these 10 new domains. These links worked pretty well for me to rank websites atm (they are nofollow, but it works very well somehow).
6) Then I will wait 2-3 weeks
7) I will put the content from the penalized domains to the new domains. Then 301 from the penalized domain to the new domain, so that Google understands that the content is now on the new domains.
8) 2 Options: Either the 301 will work and the new domains will not get penalized, then I will keep the 301 in place. OR the new domains get penalized, then I want to remove the 301 redirection and replace it with a javascript redirect, so that the penality does not get trough.
My objective: I want to "rescue" the content on the penalized domains and give it a chance to rank again, on new domains. The content is a lot, all hand made and very unique and some very good sales letters on these penalized domains.
What are your thoughts? Will this work ?
Thanks a lot
PS: Other option that I am thinking about is just disavowing 50% of all links on the penalized domains, then start building only good "white hat" links to the domains. But this seems to be quite risky as I don't know if the domains will ever come back, so the work on the new good links could potentially be waisted.
I have around 10 domains that got penalized in April 2012 (Penguin 1). Domains had been spammed with lot's of blog comments (but good ones, only blogs where I spammed my comments with links, noone else).
Sites lost 95% of traffic and ranking and never came back.
I am running the following experiment now, and will tell you how it goes:
1) I created 5 new google webmaster accounts and added the 10 penalized domains (2 per webmaster account).
9 domains did not get a link warning, 1 domain received a link warning and got manually deindexed for 2 years now, bcz of the use of a link network.
2) I used webmeup detox service to get a list of all dangerous links per domain. Then created disavow files. Submitted them to google.
Around 10% of the links showed up as deadly, around 40% as dangerous, 50% of links good. I disavowed all deadly links + half of the dangerous links (I just kept the links with risk < 60%). So I disavowed around 30% of all links.
3) I wait for 3 weeks <- I am here NOW. Nothing happened so far. No changes in traffic or ranking.
As there is no change in the ranking after 3 weeks of waiting, I assume the disavow alone does not help and my plan is now:
4) I will register 10 new domains and put some unique content on it that is related to the content on the old penalized domains.
5) I will build 500 links from youtube and vimeo to these 10 new domains. These links worked pretty well for me to rank websites atm (they are nofollow, but it works very well somehow).
6) Then I will wait 2-3 weeks
7) I will put the content from the penalized domains to the new domains. Then 301 from the penalized domain to the new domain, so that Google understands that the content is now on the new domains.
8) 2 Options: Either the 301 will work and the new domains will not get penalized, then I will keep the 301 in place. OR the new domains get penalized, then I want to remove the 301 redirection and replace it with a javascript redirect, so that the penality does not get trough.
My objective: I want to "rescue" the content on the penalized domains and give it a chance to rank again, on new domains. The content is a lot, all hand made and very unique and some very good sales letters on these penalized domains.
What are your thoughts? Will this work ?
Thanks a lot
PS: Other option that I am thinking about is just disavowing 50% of all links on the penalized domains, then start building only good "white hat" links to the domains. But this seems to be quite risky as I don't know if the domains will ever come back, so the work on the new good links could potentially be waisted.
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