Algorithmic penalty advice

Hello everyone, I've been following the forum for a while and I've just registered...I'm a seo and I would like to have an opinion / feedback on a penalty I took on 2 of my websites.

here are the symptoms:
>with the command site:domain.com Google displays 5-6 results
> by searching each url with site:url I find them well in Google (+100 urls)

the site has gone from several hundred visits with positioned keywords to almost nothing.

My actions:
- moving to a dedicated ip
- site transition to https
- creation of a consistent legal notice page

I don't have any messages in the Search console.
It looks like an algorithmic penalty and I don't know how to solve it...
I've been thinking about doing a 301 of the whole site to a new domain but I don't know if that will solve the problem...

thank you for your help ;-)
(of course i can send the domain by pm)

I have a similar site like yours, site: result is 4, while more pages indexed on GSC (around hundred), been like this for nearly 1 year, then I trashed it.

The site is black hat, so I ate this result.

If your website is black hat too, that means maybe Google recognized that, if not, give it more time and check what will happen when Google next big update come.

thomasson92 said:

Hello everyone, I've been following the forum for a while and I've just registered...

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Welcome aboard!

thomasson92 said:

here are the symptoms:
>with the command site:domain.com Google displays 5-6 results
> by searching each url with site:url I find them well in Google (+100 urls)

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That's the way it works. They don't provide accurate info on either of those operators. They do it so you can't use it for SEO - the SEO data is all skewed on all their tools.

thomasson92 said:

My actions:
- moving to a dedicated ip

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That changes nothing. No need to spend $$$ on that.

thomasson92 said:

- site transition to https

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Good move.

thomasson92 said:

- creation of a consistent legal notice page

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All you need is privacy, terms of use, make sure to use those exact terms = privacy, terms of use.

The manual reviewers look for that when manually grading your site.

thomasson92 said:

I don't have any messages in the Search console.
It looks like an algorithmic penalty and I don't know how to solve it...
I've been thinking about doing a 301 of the whole site to a new domain but I don't know if that will solve the problem...

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Search for Annie Cushing SEO checklist and do all of it. It's 200+ pages so get ready to work.

thank you for your replies.. i will have a look on Annie Cushing seo list..