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Sounds a risky strategy Toyz! Good luck with it!

If I was to resubmit my site for review am i any more likely to get feedback from Google as to the problem?

Thanks Blocker - it must be a penalty alright because it is such a sharp and sudden decrease in traffic.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks For the tips Jim, Appreciate it!

So if you have a Google Penalty you should get a message in web-master tools? I don't have a message in there, in fact the only real problem I can see in web-master tools now is a lot of my pages have the same meta description which I'll work on now but that is unlikely to be the full issue, is it?

I'm talking to a child abuse protection agency about developing their website and we are looking into keyword for them their site to target. The client asked me yesterday, are there any implications for targeting keywords such as "Child Abuse" etc. I presume there is no problem with this but just thought I would double check?

Hello there SEOMOZ'ers,

Just signed up for a Pro Account. Impressed with the trial. Just wondering is there any way to find out if you have fallen foul of a Google update, is there any way to know which you have fallen foul of or is the date it happens the only guide or pointer to what might have happened?

My site was getting a reasonable amount of traffic for the last few years and was ranking well for my main search terms up till Feburary the 4th when the traffic fell by almost 50% ... and it has never really recovered.

I thought it might be the Above the Fold Advertising penalty (or whatever it is called) because I had a lot of images linking elsewhere on my site, above the fold on my homepage, but I removed them about 4 weeks ago and the traffic still hasnt recovered.

I've been using SEOMOZ to detect duplicate content and various other problems with my site since and fixing a good few of them each week. I have the main issues down from about 300 to about 20 which i think i have just fixed.

I have also used Copyscape and found that some other websites had stolen some of my content, which i have since rewritten.

I was ranking number 2 or 3 for my main keyword but dropped out of the top 100 in February, which is pretty frustrating at this stage. I don;t know if I have accidentally gone too far over optimising my site or what has happened.

If anyone can give me some pointers I'd really appreciate it, if anyone can help me fix it I'll buy them a beer next time you are in Ireland!

Thanks,

Shane