Checked the SERPs just now and the site's back to page 12. Not panicking at this point. Will still maintain 75% link building volumes until the ranking stabilizes.
One thing I think that helped was do a 9000 comment blast to random pages on the money site with name anchor texts (instead of keyword). I also changed the TITLE tag of the pages to "free quick brown fox online" instead of just "quick brown fox" and "forced" Google to reindex that page.
Let us...
Good news! I just checked rankings for the keyword I was penalized for. I'm now back to page 3!! Thanks to everyonefor telling me to just continue link building. Hoping the new ranking sticks! :)
Just an update.. I've throttled the campaign back to about 75% since my first post and the site just dropped to page 12 yesterday. Convinced that this is a penalty.
I'm restarting the experiment on a fresh domain, with 10 handwritten (outsourced) buffer 2.0 properties. Same formula: funnel low...
Thanks for the comments. Wish it was the Dance but everyone else held their positions, except my site so I'm tempted to think it's a penalty.
BTW, the last blast I did was for the money site, not the buffer ones.. this probably did me in
Was playing around with a WP blog on a 2-year old domain, trying to compete for a 22+K/month keyword with 3,220,000 competing pages.
After 3 weeks of SENuke-powered buffer sites and SB-powered comments to these buffer sites which saw me reach page 4, I decided to get more aggressive and...
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