Well I just did a full inventory of all my sites, and it ends up some survived the massacre. With that said, I will now be running a lot of new tests and start to figure out the beast’s updated quality signals. Most of them seem pretty clear.. if you’ve been in the game long enough to watch the progression of things, it’s always moved toward this.
Btw, all of my top money keywords.. gone. So, in turns of revenue, it hurts.. but I think we’ll recover.
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Also, if the Penguin’s got you feeling down, and you can’t request a reconsideration for whatever reason, check out this blog post for a little bit of inspiration.
Good luck & see you on the battlefield,
Teh SEOwner
April 28th, 2012 at 6:21 am
So what’s your initial take on WTF happened and what were the biggest offenders in a backlink profile to bring on Goog’s wrath?
I reset ALL my StatCounter stats and am now puzzling to see what keywords (if any!) survived, where traffic is STILL coming from, and wondering what the next logical move is.
Clearly, my NEWER sites that I didn’t get around to do much link building on have fared better. (Less is more…)
On some gut level, I feel Directory Submissions (even with decent title anchor spinning) and possibly any heavy Pligg bookmarking were two of the signals that were most toxic.
April 28th, 2012 at 7:54 am
The main offenders were the ones using the technique Matt Cutts showed in his blog post. High PR domains, random content with outbound anchor links, etc. I never personally did it, but I do know people that did.
Really it was sorta a double hit, because they released another Panda update on the 19th… Before “Penguin”. Either way it appears the main target was over optimization of anchor texts. We’ll just have to see what happens.