- Oct 5, 2020
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We have an e-commerce website that used to receive ~200k monthly visitors. Most of the traffic comes to 4-5 big pages. In early October, 2 biggest of these pages stopped receiving organic traffic. They lost all keywords. They used to rank for almost two years. These are clean pages with high dwell time.
If you search these 2 pages on Google by "site:" they show up. And the search console says they are on Google. But they ain't there if you organically search any keyword they used to rank for. Pages are in the index but not in the SERPs.
We spent a month looking for the solution. They were failing the core web vitals, we fixed that. We noticed that someone built 25k subdomain pages (like googlehack_142005.betterliferoleplay.uk) and 301 redirected them all to our website, to all of our pages. None of these load, nor do they actually redirect to our website. We saw them on Semrush reports, and some of them appeared in Search Console's links report as well. We disavowed them all two weeks ago.
These two pages were even removed from rich results. Like this:
When you search our domain name, these two pages were among the biggest categories that pop up under domain name on the SERP. Now they are gone, other 3 are still there and the two are gone.
This is nothing but shadowban. We didn't receive any notificiation or manual penalty notice. Search console inspection says the pages are working fine and no issues about them.
What can we do in this situation? Give the disavow tool some more time? Try changing the links of the pages? Or what are the other options?
If you search these 2 pages on Google by "site:" they show up. And the search console says they are on Google. But they ain't there if you organically search any keyword they used to rank for. Pages are in the index but not in the SERPs.
We spent a month looking for the solution. They were failing the core web vitals, we fixed that. We noticed that someone built 25k subdomain pages (like googlehack_142005.betterliferoleplay.uk) and 301 redirected them all to our website, to all of our pages. None of these load, nor do they actually redirect to our website. We saw them on Semrush reports, and some of them appeared in Search Console's links report as well. We disavowed them all two weeks ago.
These two pages were even removed from rich results. Like this:
When you search our domain name, these two pages were among the biggest categories that pop up under domain name on the SERP. Now they are gone, other 3 are still there and the two are gone.
This is nothing but shadowban. We didn't receive any notificiation or manual penalty notice. Search console inspection says the pages are working fine and no issues about them.
What can we do in this situation? Give the disavow tool some more time? Try changing the links of the pages? Or what are the other options?
