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If you got a unnatural links email in your webmaster tools, has your site recovered. If so what did you do if anything and time it took to recover from the penalty. Please only post if you have had success with the penalty going away and getting your spot back or better ;) Cheers Mates!

We know that Google recently working on a search ranking penalty for sites that are over-optimized or overly SEO'ed. Today i am searching on How to remove bad Backlinks and get this Answers: 1- send request to the website owner to remove your link and wait for the approval. 2- if you have...

Ok so a couple of days ago I have updated my site. I have tweak my post so that it will convert better (Using Content Lockers) so the problem is that all of my keywords has vanished from the SERPs now this can easily be read as google dance but as I just added some new codes and also I have...

Has anyone successfully recovered from Google unnatural links penalty with 301 redirect to a new domain?

So, These are the facts: - lots of directory submission to directories that want link-back 1) created a page /partners.html 2) added all those necessary links in that page (about 300 links) 3) linked that page in the footer 4) Nofollow tag on that footer link 5) Disallow /partners.html in...

What the hell? I posted a blog comment on a blog with a PR 2 for the domain and a PR 1 for the page I blog posted. All cool till then. It so happens this blog, which is on the topic of SEO and looks a bit spammy, has the " last visitor comments" widget enabled (I didn't see this). I went...

Ok so my website has been hit by a site wide penalty for 1 month . It's not a manual penalty but a penalty which was given to me because of using socialmonkee.com network or mass pinging of my website. Ok so a simple question is how many of you managed to get out of a automatic penalty, How much...

I have a website that aggregates ratings on supplements. My site received an -950 penalty under my old domain which I believe was due to being a thin affiliate with some aggressive link building. The penalty lasted for several months even after adding plenty of original content so transferred...

I know has been asked before, and the general consensus on the forum seems to be that while a 301 redirect from a penalized site to a new domain will fix the issue temporarily, it only seems to last for up to a week. However, I was wondering what if you tweaked the content, site structure a...

Hi guys i was just wondering if Google has penalised anyone for Blackhat SEO? Dave

Right the situation I am in the moment is that I have a site that has been running for about 3 months. Last week whilst I was sorthing the GUI out, I parked the website and made it accessible to Admin team only. It was parked for roughly about the full week. Since re-opening of the site my...

Does anyone have a list of plugins that they know of that would get penalized by G? I know that if you over-optimize you can get penalized but I also noticed that some of the plugins I use show up in the source code and even if you don't over-optimize wouldn't G penalize you anyways just for...

Hi, my intention is rank 1st in google serps for x keyword...and i was wondering if a domain previously used with WP-Robot (so full of dup content) could badly affect my future position...a sort of penalty. This duplicate content has ben removed two days ago, but I'm afraid that Google may...

Ok now we all know about the sanbox effect => most people around here consider it a myth or a variant of the google dance. Never the less most people consider there are penalties => google puts you a few places lower from 30 to 950 Now I dont say that there are such penalties but I dont admit...

I am using wprobot at my blogs, 2 blogs are getting penalty and not getting traffic from google, from 150 visits per day to now 1 or 2 visit per day. I was posting amazon produts with wprobot, daily around 60 posts. I want to know if anybody got this penalty and how he managed to get out of...

I was doing some research on why one of my sites could have been sandboxed and suspected that a group of about 15 back links gave it the boot. I tried this on a couple of useless blogspot blogs that I have and sure enough, one hit the sandbox a week later and one was de indexed. These back...

My friend recently had his website - paradisesonline - completely disappear from the Google (not completely, it still ranks for it's domain name though). It used to be ranking for 'resort getaways' and 'hotels luxury' (in Australia at least). Now it's nowhere to be seen for these terms. It...

Guys I had a site that dropped from 8 to 70 a few days ago after I made some on page changes. Nothing dramatic - Just shortened the title and layout of the page. There were no changes made to outgoing links etc. Anyways, since then, I have published about 14 ezine articles, have got two...

Hello, I have a site which I believe was penalized by Google. I don't have much experience in SEO, mostly I focus on the content. I'm not that sure if the site was penalized or the search index just changed. My site is 5 years old, we usually received like 2.5k referrals from Google per day...

I have a 3 month old website and doing pretty good on serp always on page one and ranging from 5th to 2nd place on g**gle search result depending on the country. **Yesterday, I made 8 blogs (free blog around the net), linkwheel style pointing to my main site. never closed the wheel and i...