Penguin 2.1 update, ranking dropped.
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Hi,
My website was hit by Google's new update like never before, first my ranking dropped back in May when Google rolled out with their second Penguin update, back then i was outsourcing my SEO since most of the time i was working on optimizing my local maps. As soon as noticed my traffic dropped i start doing SEO my self, I removed over optimized keywords on website ( title, meta description) then i analyzed my link profile and found that i had a lot of commercial anchor text linking from spammy websites, mostly blog comments.
Its been over 4 months since I used Google's disavow tools in hoping that will help me get my raking back, but i still see these spammy links in my profile, 90% of them are nofollow anyways , so i'm not sure if disavow tool helped me at all.
With this Penguin 2.1 update my website ended up on page 4-10 for 90% of my keywords http://screencast.com/t/3bcw8LUxpj
Im not sure what would be the best way out this, should i buy a new domain and start fresh?Please let me know if you want to take a look on my link profile and give your opinion.
Looking forward to your help!
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Yeah i wont probably do any better or it will take a long time which i cant afford, so might as well 301 it to new domain and see what happens.
Thanks
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Give it a few days and see how the SERPs settle.Its probably Google doing a shuffle as I have seen extremely legitimate white-hat sites with almost zero links get hit really hard.
Its strange because all of my newer domains (less than 3 months) were not hit while the older ones were. Some have recovered while others have not. Whats worse, some super spammy websites have not budged at all! And some top ranked sites now have 5 backlinks or they are super spammy.
So just sit tight a week, and see what happens. Hope for the best.
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