Need help, i am lost
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Hello all,
I am new in this community.
I have been for a while on Page 1 on Google with the keyword "Wooden Signs" with my website CreateYourWoodSign.com
Since the Google update (April 24th i think)I completely disappeared from Google. I have not been able to come back since.
Any help would you highly appreciated.
Thank you!
Emmanuel -
Hi Emmanuel,
Sorry to hear about your lost rankings and traffic.
First question: Have you received any notice in Google Webmaster Tools? Are you registered with Google Webmaster?
April 24th was the date of Penguin, which primarily targeted over-optimized anchor text. Sitewide, exact-match anchors were particularly targeted.
If we take a look at your backlink profile in Open Site Explorer, we can find a number of these types of links. For example, the link on this website:
http://sterlingrealtybelair.com/
The link "Custom Wooden Signs" appears on every page in the sidebar. Unfortunately, these are exactly the types of over-optimized links targeted by Penguin.
Then there are links like this, which seem soley to exist to link back to your main site: signswooden.com/
If I had to guess, I would say this is where the problem lies. If this is the case, my advice would be to check Google Webmaster Tools for warnings. If you see no warnings, you can file a pre-emptive reconsideration request to verify a penalty. Then, you're probably going to be faced with a long period of link evaluation, clean-up, disavowing, and reconsideration requests.
I know it's not the best news in the world, but almost any site can recover if you put in the work.
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1. Your product landing pages do not have enough content. We would rather suggest you to add some content in the pages.
2. You are copy and pasting the same product in numerous websites, creating duplicate version of the same product detail, which is certainly going to affect the visibility of your website -
http://www.createyourwoodsign.com/servlet/the-1142/Welcome-to-our-lake/Detail#.UPP08-Stzew
Duplicate pages -
http://www.prettywoodsigns.com/no-one-else-will-ever-know-the-strength-of-my-love-for-you-2/
http://www.amazon.com/Laugh-With-Live-Love-Wooden/dp/B007QD9J1A
http://www.squidoo.com/lake-house-rules-sign
https://pinterest.com/WoodenSigns/lake-house-wood-signs/
http://ilovewoodsigns.com/tag/wood-sign/Not suggest copy and pasting the same information in other websites.
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Hi Emmanuel
It sounds you where hit by Google Panda and the possible other updates. I got hit as well but with some careful analysis and a bit of work I got myself back to pretty much where I was before the updates.
If you check out the whiteboard fridays around this time it will assist you as they've assisted me.
I have had a quick look at your website and the first quick observation is that it seems on your landing page you have no text. I am pretty sure if you removed the images and placed the text then you should see an improvement.
Regards
Jame
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