Disavowed links, updated website etc - still no ranking improvements
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Hi,
Could anyone take a look at www.artificialgrass4u.co.uk - a few years ago it used to rank highly for 'artificial grass' ... then when Google rolled out its algorithms punishing websites with poor links it lost all it's rankings.
We've disavowed almost all of the bad links, and have been adding new optimised content etc over the past few months but rankings still haven't improved.
Is there anything I'm missing?
Thanks
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I think the first question I need to ask you is the following
- Did you have a manual penalty in GWT?
- Did your rankings drop from algorithmically?
- Do you know exactly which updates you were effected by? (panda, penguin, top-heavy, layout...)
- What made you decide to disavow links? Did you even need to?
One of the biggest mistakes I have seen many others do when their rankings drop is "panic" and start disavowing links. SEO'rs tend to run to the disavow tool when they may not even realize that their issues have nothing to do with that. Of course if you have a manual penalty they you have something to go by, but if you are effected from an algorithm change then you have some work ahead.
I think the first step you need to do is try and figure out which update(s) you were effected by. That will give you a better idea where you need to focus your attention. Here is a great article that will help you to understand
Once you get past that then here is an awesome article in which even helped me to recover, it takes some work but I promise it was the best thing I ever did.
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Keszi above is spot on. Likely have to wait for the next penguin update.
That said your title is the below:-
Artificial Grass - Fake Grass - Artificial Grass Suppliers - ArtificialGrass4u.co.uk
Artificial x 4 - as artificial is the synonym for fake. That is robust SEO I am not sure if google would go as far as keyword stuffing. You may consider the title being a bit more customer friendly. That may assist as well.
ie Artificial grass | Synthetic Grass suppliers | Artificialgrass4u
Not much help, but good luck.
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Hi there,
It can take quite some time until you will see effect of the disavowed links file. For example in one of our projects I've seen it took almost 6 months until we have seen some recovery after submitting the disavow file.
Also what I'd advise you to check if your rankings were only effected by the lower quality links you had in the past. One tool that might help you with that is Barracuda's Panguin tool: http://barracuda.digital/panguin-tool/
Basically it will use your Google Analytics data, and overlap with the known google updates. That could also highlight if your website was hit by another update meanwhile.
I hope this helps a little-bit.
Keszi
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