Infographic: Troubleshooting Google Penalties – How to Get Your Organic Traffic Back

TROUBLESHOOTING GOOGLE PENALTIES HOW TO GET YOUR S ORGANIC TRAFFIC BACK CAN YOU FIND YOUR SITE BY BRAND NAME IN GOOGLE? FOLLOW the same steps, but also submit FOLLOW NO YES the same steps, a reconsideration request at the end describing in detail all that but pay attention to keyword anchors & skip reconsideration Have you you have done to received a request part improve your site Google web- master Tools message? YES NO Check Moz Updates History, match your traffic drop date with the update What does it say? PENGUIN PANDA related related Do you have ads on your website? Do they occupy %3D %3D Issues with inbound links more than 40% of Issues some pages? with content YES NO Check site pages for duplicate content (use siteliner.com Do you use automatically generated content, scraped content or low quality content? Reduce the amount of ads and move the majority of the ones left below to automate the process) Have you found a lot? the fold Check your inbound links in Google Webmaster Tools, download them YES YES NO NO Did your GWT message contain any samples of poor links? Cleanse the site remove the duplicates If all of your answers were if you can, or use rel canonical on duplicate Replace low-quality content with high-quality "NO", most likely you misdiagnosed the issue, try following the above steps again YES NO pages, or block those folders and sections one or block folders and files from indexation from indexation Look for the links that would follow the pattern of the samples in LOOK FOR ANY PATTERNS AND LINKS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED BY GOOGLE your GWT download Poor link source (cheap so-called "SEO-friendly" directories, infected sites, sites containing malware, porn, link farms, content farms, sites that explicitly violate Google quality guidelines) Not evenly distributed link Similar Sitewide links aggressive (commercial e.g. "buy a car", "best silver mass, meaning almost all the links point to 2 or 3 pages only jewelry for sale") anchor text Allow at least Submit Select all the links a week for the webmasters to reconsideration 20 that follow one of request in your GWT describing in detail all the measures you've taken to improve your site's backlink profile the patterns above and that seem get back to you Put all the links that suspicious you were unable to remove into a txt file one link per line or domains like this - domain:sample.com - and upload to Google Disavow Tool Try to contact webmasters of the Allow 2-4 weeks and if you get no positive reply repeat the whole procedure again sites you've select- ed and ask them to 7 - remove the links SOURCES: www.moz.com/google-algorithm-change www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en www.siteliner.com & promodo 2014.Designed by Promodo ----- ---- --1------ ----- |------------------------ ---