jakeruston
Junior Member
- Mar 29, 2009
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Hi,
So in February/March one by one my sites started getting the unnatural links message until literally every single one had gotten the message. The rankings fell, all of them just by a few pages though. I thought I could build some higher quality backlinks to try and get out of it so I began doing that. Then the Penguin update came in and all of my rankings were completely wiped out, I didn't rank anywhere at all for anything. $300/day income destroyed.
All of my sites were EMDs and had a huge amount of backlinks, I think cleaning up the link profiles would have been an incredibly tough job so I decided to look into other ideas. All of my sites were in different parts of the same niche so I decided that it might be a good idea to build one big authority site. All of my EMDs did already have 100 - 200 pages of unique hand-written content on them each already, though.
I had a domain name lying around that I could use so I immediately started moving all of my sites into 1 domain name. The sites were split up by subdirectories. One by one I moved all of the content to the new subdirectory on the authority domain and then 301-ed the old domain to the subdirectory on the new site. I had around 10 sites so did this for all of them.
I also took a look through all of the articles on my site and their keyword densities and tried to rewrite some of them. Some articles had keyword density of 2% - 3% so I tried making it more natural, now they're all around 0.5%.
After all of the 301 redirects were in place, I simply waited. I did no link building at all, I just waited to see what happened. Within a few days more and more pages got indexed on the new site and rankings started coming back. As of right now, I'm now ranking rather well considering I'm no longer using an EMD. Some of my tougher keywords are slightly lower than they were but my rankings for smaller keywords have definitely gone up. I've gone back to making money again.
I saw on this forum that people have been saying that the penalty will pass through the 301 redirect. It's been around 9 - 10 days since redirects were put in place and there has been no penalty passed to the new one as of yet, although of course this is still really early days. If a penalty does pass I'll be sure to update this thread with my findings.
I just thought I'd give my experience on how I've been trying to get out of penguin. I think if your link profile is really bad like mine was then the best way of getting out of Penguin is to start from a new domain. We'll see how this turns out.
Jake
So in February/March one by one my sites started getting the unnatural links message until literally every single one had gotten the message. The rankings fell, all of them just by a few pages though. I thought I could build some higher quality backlinks to try and get out of it so I began doing that. Then the Penguin update came in and all of my rankings were completely wiped out, I didn't rank anywhere at all for anything. $300/day income destroyed.
All of my sites were EMDs and had a huge amount of backlinks, I think cleaning up the link profiles would have been an incredibly tough job so I decided to look into other ideas. All of my sites were in different parts of the same niche so I decided that it might be a good idea to build one big authority site. All of my EMDs did already have 100 - 200 pages of unique hand-written content on them each already, though.
I had a domain name lying around that I could use so I immediately started moving all of my sites into 1 domain name. The sites were split up by subdirectories. One by one I moved all of the content to the new subdirectory on the authority domain and then 301-ed the old domain to the subdirectory on the new site. I had around 10 sites so did this for all of them.
I also took a look through all of the articles on my site and their keyword densities and tried to rewrite some of them. Some articles had keyword density of 2% - 3% so I tried making it more natural, now they're all around 0.5%.
After all of the 301 redirects were in place, I simply waited. I did no link building at all, I just waited to see what happened. Within a few days more and more pages got indexed on the new site and rankings started coming back. As of right now, I'm now ranking rather well considering I'm no longer using an EMD. Some of my tougher keywords are slightly lower than they were but my rankings for smaller keywords have definitely gone up. I've gone back to making money again.
I saw on this forum that people have been saying that the penalty will pass through the 301 redirect. It's been around 9 - 10 days since redirects were put in place and there has been no penalty passed to the new one as of yet, although of course this is still really early days. If a penalty does pass I'll be sure to update this thread with my findings.
I just thought I'd give my experience on how I've been trying to get out of penguin. I think if your link profile is really bad like mine was then the best way of getting out of Penguin is to start from a new domain. We'll see how this turns out.
Jake
