Site disappeared from rankings at 5th of October
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Hello,
I have a travel guide site at www.taylandgezirehberi.com
It is the most detailed site about Thailand in Turkish language. It has 300 hundred pages of unique content that I wrote from scratch.
Site was doing great at Google Turkey. I was at 2nd place for keyword "Tayland". Also I was in first 5 at almost every Tayland related keyword.
I survived Penguin really good, but at 5th of October Penguin data refresh my site got totally trashed. Now site doesn't appear at any keyword at all.
I suspect this maybe because of some link wheels that I bought about 8-9 months ago when I was inexperienced. Also I had 4-5 backlinks from my sites at other unique IP adresses.
I admit doing mistakes, but I think the punishment was really harsh for a unique content site. I sent a reconsideration request, but got the answer "No manual spam actions found."
I contacted the guy who did link wheel, had him removed some of the links. Also I used Disallow Tool and submitted some other spammy url's.
This deranking effected me really bad, do you have some other suggestions that might help?
Thanks a lot
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Thanks for all answers.
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Matt Cutts said that this is to be used if you, or another party, has ever undertaken poor link building techniques.
They do say only use it if you need to, but they aren't likely to penalise anyone for using it - they already know if you have bad links and have had a links warning.
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Hi Kerem,
5th October was definitely Penguin #3 - see http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change. I'd follow the links on that page and understand EXACTLY what this Penguin update is - and move forward from there. You seem to have the right idea anyway. Good luck!
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I would be very careful using the disavow tool. By using it, you're acknowledging to Google that you have bad links. I would use it as an absolute last resort.
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Kerem - where you say "Also I used Disallow Tool and submitted some other spammy url's." do you mean you used the new Google Disavow tool? If so, be aware that Google said effects from this can take a number of weeks to be seen.
If this is the case, wait a while and just make sure that you aren't being penalized for anything else. For example, make sure your content isn't spread across the 'net by others who have plagiarised yours.
Andy
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Contact my buddy Ryan Kent. His company specializes in link removal penalties
http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/312503.
BTW, he's #1 on SEOMOZ and even I have sent him business. Tell him Cisco from Planet Marketing says hi!
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remove bad links (via contacting webmasters and disavow - make sure you KNOW what links are low quality before removing)
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continue writing unique, high quality content (about relevant topics that get searched and would ideally be shared)
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build new high quality, relevant links (reach out to other sites that link to related content and give them a reason to link to you)
Follow those 3 and you should be golden.
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