Dropping Old Site After Too Many Penalties. What Do You Think About the New One?

[sbrault74]

I finally decided to drop my website after it kept losing traffic even though I spent hundreds of hours and lots of $$$ trying to recover from both Panda and Penguin. I should've started a new website a lot earlier.

So here's my new website, let me know if it's worthy of Big G: http://www.webhostinghero.com/

Thank you in advance for your constructive comments!

[RobertFisher]

I would not worry much about them as I don't see anything really egregious. Alan makes a good point on the broken links. I did not see them (again it was cursory).

Best to you both.

[AlanMosley]

I had a quick look, your site crawls ok, but I did find 65 broken links, most pointing to http://www.webhostinghero.com/tools/' These are all wasting PR.

I also saw that you no indexed a lot of pages, but you marked them follow, that is good

A few titles and descriptions too long.  and few other problems in small numbers.

For a wordpress site you have done a good job, most wordpress sites I have crawled are a mess.

[sbrault74]

The .ca website has been shutdown in early May so these links aren't there anymore.

As for the other links, I hope they won't hurt the website as they've been built by the previous domain owner. I tried contacting the referring websites but without success.

[RobertFisher]

We use Ahrefs.com as that shows links much earlier than GWMT. I will pm you a couple of screen shots. But an example is that on April 15 your .ca showed up with 500+ links all nofollowed.

You do have a few poor sites linking to you but I do not think they will necessarily hurt you in aggregate. Some are already 404 on the link to you.

Hope that helps,

Robert

[sbrault74]

Hi Robert,

What do you mean "the link profile"? The website barely has any backlinks, no?

That said, there are lots of things missing, I just wanted to have the minimum to launch the website as it won't get lots of traffic in the beginning. There's going to be a full hosting directory and we have lots user reviews to publish.

Thank your for comments!

Stephane

[RobertFisher]

Stephane,

Typically I don't respond to these type questions because they are a two-edged sword, but it's late and maybe no one will see it. 
First, I like the layout of the site and the fact you appear to be striving toward a reference type site for hosting questions (this is a practice we use with certain clients we have but not for ads per se.) Your content is fresh, original, and well written with the caveat I did a reasonable but cursory check. 
The UI/UX is good for a reference site on the whole, but you might rethink the menu structure toward making it a bit more "problem tabs" versus Home, About, Services, Archives, etc. (Again, partially a bias by me and partially looking at if I came here to find info on a hosting issue, I would want to get to that.)
Your link profile first scared me when I saw the big jump, but saw they were all no followed from your .ca. The anchor text seems reasonable as well. You could do with a bit better meta descriptions in some areas and your title tags follow the convention of branding first one time then branding last the next which is just not something I like to see. Understand that by doing the onpage when it is created, you help yourself out.

I understand you are selling other hosting services from the site and that seems to negate having more info on selling the hosting yourself. So, on the whole I think it is a good beginning for you.

Going after the WP community is a good idea.

Best,

Robert