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Makes sense, it's exactly what I've thought , just want to see if anyone else was confronted this problem and how did he dealt with it.

Thanks for the response Oliver.

Hello Federico,

Thanks for the response, just to make it clear again the site didn't got a penguin penalty, as they didn't had any link to start with, there is no message in the WMT, just that when I enter their google+ account, it has a message saying the account has been suspended due to repeated violations of the terms and conditions. They have a YouTube account which also got suspended as it was on the same google account.

And when this happened all their SERPs dropped and some of them disappeared all together just like a normal penguin penalty would occur.

Hello mozzers ,

We manage a website for a client

This is the website:  http://www.mynaughtyscotland.com . [editor's note: site for escorts in Scotland, may not be safe for some workplaces]They recently got penalized but they don't have links so is not a penguin update.The client said that they noticed the drops in rank after they had their Google + account suspended.So the question is, if you have your google + account conected to the website by the rel="publisher" tag,And your google + account gets suspended, will you be getting your site penalized as well ?

Hi there,

As a guide line you should have at least 700 words on a page, so the multiple pages with 150 words is risky.

The way I would do it is to create 8 butons at the top which would be anchors and list all the text bellow, so you would have the 8 buttons at top and the client will only click the appropriate section, and the good part is that google will see all the text on-page

You know just like the 1 page sites work, it's a common practice now days

examples : http://moz.com/about/tagfee or http://www.epipheo.com/

The first part was advice on improving the website

The actual answer to the question was "you where penalized, most of your anchor text from links is "Ujjwal Kumar" which you got by commenting on others blogs, don't do that , if you are to comment just add value but don't add any links, as Google sees that mostly as spam."

I  totally agree with Christ, seems like the 3k where just not the right audience that you are after

Btw is the site up ? www.specialistsonlinepaints.co.uk

The way I see it, if they started building links and left the site as it is it's really no point, as on-page optimization is the starting point of any website

I agree to Vadim you should use all tools available if necessary so that you can identify all the back links possible and remove them asap and file the reconsideration request. They way I would do it, is to start obviously with the biggest which should be the webmaster tools, and write down in an excel or a doc all the links you sorted out, and after when useing OSE and other your will see if you have all ready done that link Good luck with that

Hi there,

Just clicked the site and as it loaded up I saw the floating water effect, lose it quick and fast .

The page Disaster Restoration | Disaster Resto... got an overall PageSpeed Score of 46 (out of 100).

If you did hired some seo guys my suggestion is to lose them as well, and do your research properly before hiring someone

Hello Yiannis,

Thanks for the response, I think this is the right way, as the profiles are erased after 6 month of inactivity ... never thought of it this way

Hello Chris, sorry for the lack of details, so the link caries value on each profile, there are inbound links coming to each profile from our social profiles from shares tweets pins and so on, so each profile carries a link weight but the way we structure the website : thewebsite/city/profile-name , and when the subscription expires it redirects from /city/profile-name to /city, so all the link juice will be carried to the city in question, as for the frequency it depends, we have profile being reactivated after 1 week or after 2-3 month ...

Hello Mozers,

I have a website which offers subscriptions on a monthly basis, when one profile expires the link of the profile gets a 301 redirect to the main category, just that if the member chooses to come back after a while he can reactivate the profile and the link will work again and the 301 will disappear,

Should I be doing  302 redirect, as from this point of view it's only a temporarily redirect ?

Thanks in advance

Your are lacking page speed , it took me over 5 sec to load the page, don't place ads in the banner of the website, if you are to reblog articles do them through your social accounts, try having only unique content on your website.

This where just as first impression on navigation on your website, you may want to think and improve the problems above .

As for your question, you where penalized, most of your anchor text from links is "Ujjwal Kumar" which you got by commenting on others blogs, don't do that , if you are to comment just add value but don't add any links, as Google sees that mostly as spam.

It will probably take about 3 mouth to recover ( if you do this properly), try removing all the bad links and file a reconsideration request to Google

And in terms of Links I would just let them came naturally, I will establish collaboration and if anyone links to my site or my content I will know that came absolutely natural a i will not have any problems with penguin or any update that Google will produce in the future. Actually I had one link to my homepage, which I got from a charity that I've contacted and ask them if I can support them by adding some info about them on my site, in return and without asking they added a link to my site

Well yes I have my social accounts , and i have about 30 followers, about 250 on Google + and 40 on facebook, i builde engagement, had them to answer some polls, they even had some of my blogs shared and liked .. so I'm doing well in there, and I do focus on my brand, eventually they will all direct link my site and not google search for it

yes sorry forgot to mention, of course I checked the competition, and actually Glasgow is a lot easier then Edinburgh, and as mentioned, I just know I should rank somewhere between 10-20 on Google without any links, because the other Serps are just horrible, I mean the first 3 sites on Glasgow, do banner exchange and spammy comment links :), and they don't even have social accounts ...

And about the serps, yes my snipped is showing as it should, keyword Glasgow | brand name ,

I have the keyword included once in the description also, once in the h1 and h2 and 3 times in the body with different forms, all should be good ...

Thanks Chris , as I said, all pages have unique content ( text, photos, etc.. ), just the meta title -> meta description h1, h2 and img alt are the same only with the city keyword replaced

example : i' trying to rank for keywords glasgow and keywords edinburgh, all pages have the title keywords glasgow | brand name or keywords edinburgh | brand name and so on ..

It's a common practice, I have around 300 pages that are for different cities just imagine having to manually type every piece of info there :)) that's why we have the php script that auto generates this.

My best guess is that you either good hacked and your site has something in the code or google got title from a web directory, social site ... Just add  in the head section.

Hope this helps

This is my code : it redirect all

mysite.com to www.mysite.com and mysite.com/index.php to mysite.com (need to rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess)

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""># Redirect non-www to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/]+/)[^.#?\ ]+.php([#?][^\ ])?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+).php http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

Hello mozerz, I have a question regarding my SERPS that I just can't figure out, maybe one of you had this problem before or has encounter a similar problem.

So I have a website on Scotland, and I have a page for each major city so the structure is scotland/city/glasgow or scotland/city/edinburgh or scotland/city/aberdeen.

Now every city page is w3 validated, page speed validated, has around 1000 words of text, all with h1, h2, image alt, nice title and nice description, all have grade A on moz campaign, original content, all with canonical links, no ads or spammy links.

The title , description, h1, h2 and img alt are the same only replaced Aberdeen with Edinburgh or Glasgow. or so on ... so all pages are identically just replaced the city word.

In terms of link building I have done none ! and in terms of promotion I have done none... so theres no scenario where by I have done something more for one city then the other

Now my problem is that all cities are doing well in SERPS, only Glasgow has come up till 14 position and then has dropped suddenly to 74, and remained there for 2 weeks now. I know this sounds like a penalty, but it can't be because I haven't done anything, I've tried all the tools possible to analyze the Glasgow page, though that it was a code problem or a broken link or that google-bot doesn't get up to this page to crawl it and classify it, but all is fine.

Can anyone suggest anything that I might do. I'm 100% sure that I have no penalty, I've checked even the webmaster tools, open site explorer to see if anyone tried to link to my site with spammy links ( has happened before, I had about 1000 links about viagra from a competitor pointing to my site ) .