How to remove a Google algorithmic penalty
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My site has a Google penalty. I seem to be stuck in the 64th position for a Google search for my sites name. All my keywords that I used to rank well for are now well above the 60th search place in Google.
I have resolved the issue I recieved the penalty for and I have asked Google for reconsideration. That has been about 3 months ago. The penalty is still firmly in place.
I was wondering if anyone else has had a Google algorithmic penalty removed and if so how did they accomplish this?
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Hi Todd,
I'm following up on some of the older unanswered questions in Q&A. Is the penalty still in place for you, or did you get it figured out? Are there any lessons learned that you can share with us, or any questions you still have?
Thanks!
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Hey Todd
I saw some pretty major impact on one site on the 7th of Feb, it seems that a fair few other UK people did as well, I don't think it is a penalty, just an algo change of some sort but still trying to get my head around it.
Can you post the URL and keywords? Happy to take a look.
Cheers
Marcus
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If you have triggered algorithmic penalty there is no other way to fix it other than removing the cause for the penalty. Only manually assigned penalties can be fixed by submitting reconsideration requests. Google makes the whole thing that much more difficult by NOT telling you what caused it. One of our clients had a penalty of this type assigned and we did the following:
1 - Cleaned up backlinks for paid links
2 - Removed variable driven repetitive text across all pagesIt took 4 weeks for re-inclusion. We don't know what caused it, 1 or 2.
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Hey,
A site I used to manage picked up a penalty, quite innocently as it was and we got it removed, and a few weeks later it got it back again. Basically, they had some subdomains for testing client sites, removed them in teh hosting control panel and it ended up with the domains pointing at their site and they had several URLs all indexed for their content.
We 301'd all the domains and wrote a reconsideration request and that did the job. Then, somehow, we had missed one and it got penalised again, repeated the process and it was okay again.
As it happens I have another site that seems to have picked up a penalty on the 7th of Feb yet there is really nothing wrong with it as far as I can see and to make matters worse, the competition is pretty much breaking google guidelines left right and centre (mostly doorway pages).
I'll show you mine if you show me yours?
Marcus
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