I have a question about a site that was making good money while it was ranking, but no longer gets traffic.
This site did 3 things that might have gotten it in trouble:
1. Targeted keywords often showed up twice in the URL. So the url would be something like http://mydomain.com/keyword/keyword-included-in-title/
2. It got links from low-quality sites, including blog networks like (the now dead) BMR
3. It got lots of links with the same anchor text
The content quality is actually pretty good.
I don't know if the site got penalized by Panda, Penguin, or perhaps lost rank because of something else. What I can tell you is that the rank loss was gradual - one page at a time starting at the end of March and ending this month.
So the question is - in such a case:
Is it best to start over using good SEO practices?
Or is there a way to recover the sites?
