| Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/27/12 12:31 AM | I've read the FAQs and searched the help center. My URL is: http://bit.ly/ThY2oE Hi everyone, I'm having some trouble with a website. The site was penalized due to spammy backlinks in March 2012 (we received a message in Google Webmaster Tools). The |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | SE spider | 11/27/12 2:04 AM | In process of removing spam back links, you will lose some sort of weight age of links and trust factor in search engines. you need to improve your authority and build few related high quality back links. to make your website perform better. |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/27/12 2:06 AM | The title is actually supposed to read: "Manual SPAM action penalty revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged" |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/27/12 2:08 AM | The linkbuilding is already happening naturally. The site has a very active social community (Facebook, Twitter) and gets new natural backlinks all the time. Also, there is so much new content being posted every day about many different topics, that |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Suzanneh | 11/27/12 4:36 AM | Nice site! +1 to what SE Spider had to say. One thing that concerns me about your site is how Google would view all the outbound links to your site. Is most of your content from contributors? Do you have a large amount of contributors? That coul |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Suzanneh | 11/27/12 4:59 AM | Something else to consider: Google has a page layout algorithm that looks at how much content is above the fold. It's geared to getting sites that are top heavy with ads out of the results. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2012/01/page-la |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Lysis | 11/27/12 5:07 AM | The ajax popup is super annoying. If I close it on the home page and go to an inner page, it pops up again. If I say "No" I don't want a popup on every page asking me for my email. It's a real turnoff for users. |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/27/12 5:44 AM | Thanks for your answers! I'll put things into a numbered list... - Authority: I can't imagine that spider's answer applies here. The traffic really is stagnating. I've built all new sites without any backlinks and they received more traffic within a |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Internetadpro | 11/27/12 6:22 AM | Stardustor, It is a nice site and I do not see any spammy links. I would recommend in your articles or blogs to add links with anchor text to other relevant pages on the site. I would also every time a new blog is posted ping that page using free to |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Internetadpro | 11/27/12 6:25 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Internetadpro | 11/27/12 6:26 AM | Suzanneh is right about the outbound links I would add nofollow tags to them. |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Suzanneh | 11/27/12 6:38 AM | But are those article links w/ thumbnails really a good user experience? I have to scroll down to read your articles. If I come in from Search for specific keywords or if I see an article title that I like, say, in your sidebar, when I get to the |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/27/12 6:39 AM | Okay, thanks for those ideas. - Images above posts: I got rid of them. Some of the content should now show above the fold (unless you have a very small screen.. below 13") - Outbound links: I've added nofollow to the links in the author bio boxes. - |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/27/12 6:43 AM | PS: I've actually added NOFOLLOW to all external links now. Is that good? |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 11/29/12 2:48 AM | It's strange, because even if I enter very specific exact article titles into Google search, often the searches show plenty of my pages, but not the article page that I'm actually searching for. Any ideas` |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 12/5/12 12:20 AM | Wow, look at this. I have no idea why this is happening! Search impressions are lower than ever. |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Lysis | 12/5/12 4:47 AM | Yayyy no popup. It's a nice site, no doubt, but I think the user generated content is really hard to pull off post-Panda. I would monitor the health articles very carefully like http://www.doyouyoga.com/natural-remedies-for-stomach-ache/ Also, the l |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Suzanneh | 12/5/12 5:05 AM | There was another Panda update on November 21st. That might be a reason. Always good to consider other possibilities as well because Google is always making changes. But there was a confirmed update on the 21st. Also, do you get a lot of US traff |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Hrgot | 12/5/12 7:28 AM | I just got the pop up so it's not disabled. What terms are you expecting to win? |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 12/5/12 7:50 AM | Thank you all for your responses! @Lysis: This is not user-generated content at all. All the content is editorial. All writers are carefully selected and they are professionals in their field. Question: What do you mean by monitoring the health artic |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | steaksauce | 12/5/12 8:02 PM | Maybe you have an algorithmic penalty as well. Did you disavow the links from these sites? http://onlinehealthedge.com/, http://fillinglowcaloriefoods.com/ |
| Re: Manual SPAM action revoked 2.5 months ago, but search traffic unchanged | Stardustor | 12/5/12 11:57 PM | @steaksauce: Good point! We just disavowed all spammy links that were left after the penalty got revoked. Does anyone have any experience what impact that might have? About 50% of our links were potentially spam (we couldn't get them removed because |