Website that lost ranking and now starting to recovery
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Hello guys,
About a month ago we got in the webmaster tool a message that saying that we have unnatural links to the website.
We got drop from 200 keys that was in page 1-2 to pages 5-8.
We check our links and notice that someone links more then 1000 links to our site.We apply for reconsideration request plus we send the file with the links to Google to ask to remove.
Yesterday we got message from Google that say : Manual spam action revoked.
We check today the ranking and we saw that from 3 keys that was in the first page, now we are with 24 in the first page. Very good improvement but still very far from the 130 keys that was in the first page a month ago.I wanted to ask, what can we expect ?
Are we gonna get the lost ranking now ?
Is this happen overnight ?Maybe the big change will be in the next penguin update ?Bottom Line, what is the chance to get back the ranking as we had before ?
This is the most important thing right now...Thank you
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I don't think anyone will be able to give you a concrete answer to this question.
If you had a sitewide penalty and it was revoked, then you will likely find yourself returning to good rankings for brand terms. If you had a partial match penalty then how you do after the penalty is lifted depends on why you were penalized. If it was for a particular keyword, you can see some improvements. For example if you produced a widget that linked back with a keyword rich phrase and now you have removed or disavowed all of those, AND you have good links that could support natural rankings for this keyword, then, once the penalty is removed you could see a good improvement in that keyword. I have seen some sites bounce back to top 3 in cases like this.
But, what I have found is that many sites who have a partial match issue do not see much improvement in rankings. The reason for this is that the previous rankings were almost completely based on the power of unnatural links. So, removing those links is not going to make a difference.
You may find that you see a further boost the next time Penguin updates as well.
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