: How to check that I have recovered from Penguin 2.0? I have 3 year old website which has been hit by Penguin 2.0 in May. The website traffic dropped almost 30%. I have been working hard

@Cooney921

That means, your link profile isn't strong enough yet to rank for those competitive terms. Check the DA of the competitors that are ranking and their On Page SEO to get better insights on why they rank. Further, you can do a link profiling and see which links are helping them rank. May be they have links from more relevant sources.

If you observe any upward movements for your existing keywords, it clearly indicates that you are no longer affected by Penguin.

Also, if you still have low quality links, then Google will reply back to your reconsideration request stating the fact that you still have some poor links. If you haven't received that message, it should mean you are out of danger.

Hope that helps.

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@Heady270

Here is what Jim Boykin has to say about Penguin recovery:


...if a site has 1000 domains that link to it, and 900 of those are artificial and I disavow them, there might not be much of a recovery depending on what that 100 links left are....ie, if I disavow all link text of "green widgets" that goes to your site, and you used to rank #1 for "green widgets" prior to being hit by a Penguin update, then I wouldn't expect to "recover" on the first page for that phrase..... where you recover seems to depend on "what do you have for natural links that are left after the disavow?"


Based on his experience, your site will never be exactly the same. The links that you had with matching anchor text that were powering your rankings for those keywords are never going to do so again. So while you get site-wide penalties lifted, you still don't rank for the terms that you had been targeting with exact anchor text matching links.

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