Is this traffic drop do to cutting backlinks or Penguin 2.0 (Graphs attached)
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I've attached both graphs of the traffic drop.
Our website rankings have been steadily declining since May of 2013.
We have mostly return customers or our drop would have been much more severe.
There's never been any warnings in GWT
We cut a bunch (but not all) of our paid links in May of 2013. We didn't have a manual penalty or anything, we just wanted to see what happened if we moved towards being white hat. When our rankings plumited, we quit cutting links. We currently have about 30% paid links.
Penguin 2.0 was May 22, 2013
In looking at these graphs, was it our cutting links that caused the traffic drop, or was it Penguin 2.0? I'm looking for people who have experience in diagnosing a "Unique Visits" Google analytics graph for Penguin and have experience with what happens when you cut links.
It looks like, in viewing the graphs, that May 23 was more the day that the big drop happened, but you guys have more experience with this than me.
Thank you.
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Locking the question and directing people back to the earlier posts.
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I'm going to refer you back to the other two questions you asked today about the same thing with the same graphs that already have a bunch of answers in them.
http://moz.com/community/q/what-penalty-would-cause-this-traffic-drop-google-analytic-screenshot
http://moz.com/community/q/does-this-graph-look-like-a-panda-2-0-hit
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