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Not sure what you are talking about. There are no links in the footer, there's no footer. On category pages there is a infinity scroll and on normal pages there are no footer at all.

On a normal house page there is only about ~55 <a>tags. </a>

Hi Alex thanks for your response.

That is not my website you are linking to, that is the source website that I crawl the content from in the example above.

The domains are very similar so easy to mix up.

Hemjakt.se is my site.
Hemnet.se is the source that I crawled.

So in this case if you want to do a Pingdom Speed Test on that page, you should do it on the following URL: http://www.hemjakt.se/bostad/55860-asgatan-15/

But to answer the rest of your question:

• No there have been no significant speed changes to the website according to Google Analytics Speed Page. The last bump when speed times was increased temporarily was 2 weeks ago and only for 1 day.
• The site is hosted on Amazon with a CDN for all images. The site is not perfect but there have been a lot of time spend on making sure that the load times are decent and that the site get a OK score in Google Insights Speed Test.

Here is the Overview page from my Google Analytics to display my Bounce Rate and so on.
Regarding the Bounce Rate. It was ~66% when I had 0 goals set for the site. When I set up goals such as completing forms, viewing the gallery of each house etc the bounce rate dropped to ~38%. That is the reason for the bounce rate drop.

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What? Not sure what you're talking about.

Here is an example of a page on my site: 
http://www.hemjakt.se/bostad/59873-soldatgatan-13-b/

What is your suggestion to solve it?

I truely think my application can add a lot of value to the users by giving them a chance to find a lot of data at the same spot, instead of having to navigate to a bunch of other sites. Since I also get access to "Big data" I can add a lot of value to the users by displaying price history from multiple sources.

I'm not trying to do anything shady or black hat. I'm just trying to create a search engine for real estate. Obviously that will generate a lot of content and many pages in a short amount of time.

What am I doing that is against the Google Guidelines? I doubt that "Adding pages too fast" is a reason to give a penalty, but more suspicious activity that would indiciate that a closer look by Google would be needed to see if any spam is going on.

I have done no linkbuilding for this site. I have only focused on building a strong crawler and with ~60'000 pages/houses indexed I have been able to rank well on long queries with low competition, and thereby getting good traffic without any linkbuilding.

Moz reports 0 links and from my Google Analytics report I have only been getting some referral traffic from Reddit, a post that has now been deleted. All other traffic is organic search traffic. So I highly doubt that there are any "bad links" that is causing this punishment.

Regarding the crawler. I crawl other websites for real estate objects. I cache the HTML and I then filter out specific information such as price, number of rooms, address and so on.

I then publish this data with my own structure. This makes the data 87-90% unique if compared to the Source site. You can see example in the first post of this topic.

The 10-13% that is not unique, is the description of the real estate object which is usually a 1-2 paragraph text saying something like "This is an amazing house with 12 rooms with a great view that would be a perfect fit for the large family". This text is copied straight off. Which might be what gives me the punishment? Even if its only 10% of the page content. What do you think?

Please note that I have not done any link building at all to the site, it's only 2 months old. There are no unnatural links, no keyword stuffing and no other black hat seo tactics used. No links have been purchased at all, so Penguin should not be relevant to this site.

I've attached an image of my Google Analytics Overview for the past months, and you can see how it has been naturally steadily growing day by day and then just taking a huge drop the last few days.

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Hi all.
I have a website called Hemjakt (http://www.hemjakt.se/) which is a search engine for real estate currently only available on the Swedish market. The application crawl real estate websites and collect all estates on a single searchable application. The site has been released for a few months and have seen a steady growth since release, increasing by 20% weekly up to ~900 visitors per day.

3 days ago, over night, I lost 80% of my traffic. Instead of 900 visitors per day I'm at ~100 visitors per day and when I search for long, specific queries such as "Åsgatan 15, Villa 12 rum i Alsike, Knivsta" ( <adress><house type=""><rooms><area> <city>), I'm now only found on the fifth page.

I suspect that I have become a subject of a Google Penalty. How to get out of this mess?</city></rooms></house></adress>

Just like all search engines or applications, I do crawl other websites and scrape their content. My content is ~90% unique from the source material and I do add user value by giving them the possibility to compare houses, get ton of more data to compare pricing and history, giving them extra functionalities that source site do not offer and so on. My analytics data show good user engagement.

Here is one example of a Source page and a page at my site:
Source: http://www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-12rum-alsike-knivsta-kommun-asgatan-15-6200964
My Site: http://www.hemjakt.se/bostad/55860-asgatan-15/

So:

1. How do I actually confirm that this is the reason I lost my traffic? When I search for my branded query, I still get result. Also I'm still indexed by Google.

2. If I am penalized. I'm not attempting to do anything Black Hat and I really believe that the app gives a lot of value to the users. What tweaks or suggestions do you have to changes of the application, to be able to continue running the service in a way that Google is fine with?