-30 Google Penalty -- Switched themes?

wallofiron

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Nov 24, 2009

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• May 22, 2011

• #1

I was ranking fine on the 1st page of google for a long time but wanted to experiment with conversion rate.

I changed from the inove theme to the Thesis theme.

The next day my website disappeared from the SERPS and I found I now have a -30 penalty applied.

Very weird considering all I did was change themes.

Anyone experience anything like this before?

 

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cecle

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Jan 18, 2011

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• May 22, 2011

• #2

Yeah upon switching to thesis I dropped for a couple weeks, kept link building came back stronger. I don't think there is any need to worry, just make sure perma link structure is the same, so you don't lose backlinks.

 

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neo3187

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Sep 19, 2010

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• May 22, 2011

• #3

happened with me as well.. from Platform to CTR Theme... the traffic is increasing slowly, i wish it bounces back...

 

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seomadness

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Jan 3, 2011

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• May 22, 2011

• #4

How do you check if your site is penalized? -30 Google Penalty?

 

wallofiron

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Nov 24, 2009

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• May 22, 2011
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• #5

seomadness said:

How do you check if your site is penalized? -30 Google Penalty?

Click to expand...

I use this

http://tools.seomoves.org/penaltychecker/

 

adbot

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Feb 12, 2011

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• May 22, 2011

• #6

A temporary drop is normal. On a side note, if you are using a cracked/pirated theme, make sure there are no links to taboo sites hidden within it.

 

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guyabr

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Jan 2, 2011

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• May 22, 2011

• #7

this tool is s**t. try to check for example g00gle .co . uk you will see "This domain has a severe penalty"

 

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seotigress

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Nov 3, 2011

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• Nov 3, 2011

• #8

Same thing happened to me after I switched themes. The site disappeared from SERPs, then came back about 10 days later.