Quick question regarding penalties

lpsierra

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Nov 21, 2012

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• May 2, 2013

• #1

When your site is penalized, do all rankings go down or just certain keywords?

 

Lilacor

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Feb 22, 2013

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• May 2, 2013

• #2

It depends. Most of the cases just the overoptimized/ penalized page loses its rankings if hit by the Penguin algorithm. Panda, on the other hand, can tank the whole website.

 

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JohnSte192

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May 1, 2013

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• May 2, 2013

• #3

I always thought that the whole website suffered from it. I do not have much experience with Penguin, but in the past have seen the whole site effected of my friends from Panda.

 

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Runatic

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Apr 28, 2013

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• May 2, 2013

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I have seen both. Panda tends to affect either the whole site, or a whole section such as a blog. Penguin tends to affect a site on a keyword level. A manual penalty from Google can affect the whole site, or sometimes just one keyword, or sometimes can totally de-index the entire site.

 

omnipotent$

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• May 2, 2013

• #5

Well it depends. Sometimes you get deindexed, all your keywords disappear and in other cases it's a gradual slip of certain keywords.

 

imperial444

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• May 2, 2013

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Penguin only took some keywords, while Panda gets the whole website. This is my own personal experience

 

Lilacor

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• May 2, 2013

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imperial444 said:

Penguin only took some keywords, while Panda gets the whole website. This is my own personal experience

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But the irony here is that even though Panda tanks the whole website there is a 100% cure for Panda penalties. While Penguin can hit just 1-2 pages (keywords), but you can never find you way back from it.