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It is looking like we've been hit by Penguin 2.1 (5th Update). There was a significant drop in organic traffic on 6th October 2013. There was another drop around 17th March 2013, which looks to be related to Panda update 25. However, weirdly enough we recovered quite considerably from 7th July until Penguin 2.1. Is that something that others have experienced as well?

In view of this, does anyone have any specific advice?

Thanks for that Justin. We do have a webmaster console account and we've had zero messages relating to bad practices etc.

Re the number of links - there should be way more than that as far as I'm aware! How could there only be 7 now?!?

I'll take a look at majesticseo.com. Anything else we can do?

http://www.my-french-house.com/ has been online since around 2004 and has nearly always been in the top 10 serps for terms like 'property for sale in france'. However, over the last 12 months we've been hit really hard by Google and have fallen dramatically in rank. Can anyone give any insight into what may have happened?

As an aside, we've had no message in the Google Webmaster Console and have not contacted Google about the apparent penalty / penalization.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Jim

Hey Slava

That's kind of what I thought as well. Using the latest standards compliant code could be an indication that a site owner is serious about the site being a) up to date from a technology viewpoint and b) accessilble to as many devices as possible.

Cheers

Jim

Very general question really, but does anyone know whether Google sees html5 pages as being superior in any way to xhtml or html 4.x pages?