Does anyone have a clue about my search problem?
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After three years of destruction, my site still has a problem - or maybe more than one.
OK, I understand I had - and probably still have - a Panda problem.
The question is - does anyone know how to fix it, without destroying eveything?
If I had money, I'd gladly give it up to fix this, but all I have is me, a small dedicated promotions team, 120,000+ visitors per month and the ability to write, edit and proofread.
This is not an easy problem to fix. After completing more than 100 projects, I still haven't got it right, in fact, what I've done over the past 2 months has only made things worse - and I never thought I could do that. Everything has been measured, so as not to destroy our remaining ability to generate income, because without that, its the end of the line.
If you can help me fix this, I will do anything for you in return - as long as it is legal, ethical and won't destroy my reputation or hurt others.
Unless you are a master jedi guru, and I hope you are, this will NOT be easy, but it will prove that you really are a master, jedi, guru and time lord, and I will tell the world and generate leads for you.
I've been doing website and SEO stuff since 1996 and I've always been able to solve problems and fix anything I needed to work on. This has me beaten. So my question is: is there anyone here willing to take a shot at helping me fix this, without the usual response of "change domains" "Delete everything and start over" or "you're screwed"
Of course, it is possible that there is a different problem, nothing to do with algorithms, a hard-coded bias or some penalizing setting, that I don't know about, a single needle in a haystack.
This problem results in a few visible things.
1. Some pages are buried in supplemental results
2. Search bots pick up new stories within minutes, but they show up in search results many hours later
Here is the site: http://shar.es/EGaAC
On request, I can provide a list of all the things we've done or tried. (actually I have to finish writing it)
Some Notes:
There is no manual spam penalty. All outgoing links are nofollow, and have been for 2 years. We never paid for incoming links. We did sell text advertising links 3-4 years ago, using text-link-ads.com, but removed them all 2 1/2 years ago. We did receive payment for some stories, 3-4 years ago, but all have been removed.
One more thing. I don't write much - I'm a better editor than a writer, but I wrote a story that had 1 million readers. the massive percentage of 0.0016% came from you-know-who. Yes, 16 visitors. And this was an exclusive, unique story. And there was a similar story, with half a million readers. same result. Seems like there might be a problem!
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Thank you for responding Richard.
That would have been easy if there were any purchased or bad links, but there were none.
There were some links from blogs in sidebars and I did have two blogger blogs that referred to a number of our stories, but all of those were removed, and the two blogger blogs were deleted.
Most of the linking domains are real businesses.
I believe this is all about content, but I could be wrong. This is why I need help.
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I had a site similar to the issue. The way I solved was to just use the disavow tool like a machete instead of scalpel. Mass disavowed any domains that was even suspected and ran constant reports through link detox.
Took around 6 months but it did the job. Then start rebuilding afterwards.
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