My Website Just Got Penalized
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I had a website that recently got penalized. The pagerank dropped to zero on the homepage and moved to page 200 on google. I checked manual actions on my site in web mastertools and it says that no webspam is found. I am curious to find out why my website would drop. I had a a network of 5 blogs that I was linking to the site that also lost page rank but theres is N/A now. I am thinking thats where the trouble started because i did not use no follow.
Question 1
My question is if I remove all the links to the other site or make them no follow will the penalty lift. I am thinking that the penalty is an automated on and not a manual one. Does any one have experience with automated penalties? Did they lift after you fixed the issues. Did you regain most of your original rankings?
Question 2
What happens to all my blogs. I spent all lot of money on have posts written for it. Can any of the content be salvaged. I have over 1000 pages written on 5 different blogs.
I can send you a list of the urls so you can see what I am talking about.
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There was an update today and it was pretty ugly. If your drop was in the last 24-48 hours, that might have been the culprit.
Did you use C-class IPs on the blogs? Or were they hosted on different hosts? Did you interlink the blogs?
Theres some silly rankings going on, sites with 1 backlink ranking for 25k monthly searched keyword.
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Hi,
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Like Ash said, it's probably an algorithmic ranking penalty. Especially if you do not have anything in the Manual Actions section of Webmaster Tools. Just fixing the problems will solve the ranking issues, but it will take a wile. A lot of people have experience with these kind of issues, and they regained back the rankings. Don't worry, it can be done
Just read on Moz or other SEO resources about concrete examples if you need some facts. -
If it's a penalty caused only by the linking practices then you should not worry about the content. But be careful, because we see a lot of penalties caused by the actual content. If you paid for the content, chances are even higher. If I were you I would check:
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if there are other linking issues besides inter-blog link
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if content is really unique and has high quality.
And start fixing the problems.
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URLs would help.
Your articles are a major suspect and links another - Panda and Penguin. Yes, algorithmic ranking drops rather than a manual penalty.
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