: Since Penguin 4.0 my Google rankings dropped. They remain low despite site cleanup My website was built in January 2015, and most of our keywords related to our content ranked very well in
My website was built in January 2015, and most of our keywords related to our content ranked very well in google search results before Sept.23 2016. It's like we were punished by Penguin 4.0 because the timing of our site traffic's fluctuation is closely related to Penguin's releasing, update, and fully rolling out.
You can see the change of our site traffic from google (organic) in this picture
the first drop is Sep.23 and climbed back in 3 days, the second was on Oct. 2 and back at Oct.6, and the last drop is October 12 but never back again.
It's been a week now, and I have disavowed all bad backlinks (38 domains) and cleared the duplicate content, also audit the exceeded internal links on every page. It says that Penguin 4.0 is realtime, but I have not seen any recovery yet.
So my question is that, is this really because of Penguin update (haven't receive any mannul action letter in search console)?
If it is, does it mean that I haven't done enough to clear all the bad backlinks or else? If it isn't, then what the reason it could be?
Tips: 1. the referral traffic is stable. 2. traffic from Bing is stable (doesn't affect the keywords ranking in Bing).
Oh I forgot to mention one thing which is totally strange: the keywords ranking on Yahoo is still the same as it was before penguin 4.0, but but, the traffic sent by Yahoo is also droped (the same fluctuation graphic as Google's). I mean why, why most of our articles's ranks in Yahoo SERP are still in top 10 but the traffic it sent just remain low now.
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Have you removed or completely re-written duplicate content from scratch? This could be a cause if you haven't but by doing so will go a long way in time.
Try rebuilding your link profile again. It could have dropped during the process of removing pages etc especially if you've removed 30-40 links and removed content as well. Building your link profile with fresh content should help boost rankings. If Google have issued you a penalty you should have received a message.
They have apparently issued outbound link penalties over the weekend as well.
www.seroundtable.com/google-issues-unnatural-outbound-links-penalties-21910.html
It could be another factor that's causing your rankings to decrease. Is it across the board? What else happened on those particular days? Has a competitor entered the market?
Google could potentially just be monitoring you until unnatural behaviour stops. Of which I'd advise you try your best to generate unique, new content and link naturally.
Try and identify which pages have dropped in Organic traffic and begin your analysis around that.
I'll repeat what I've said over and over. Once one ventures down a spammy road with poor content only dedicated to drawing clicks and view, you will eventually get pulled over by search engine police. Then you spend weeks and months in a holding cell until you can prove you will be good.
Then you are put on probation. Violation of your probation can mean extended periods in jail.
Legitimate sites have no such issues.
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