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AND THEN run Penguin again
That's the key, isn't it? Penguin was only re-run one time on May 26. That would be the only time a true Penguin recovery could have happened.
But it seems to me that if millions of links are suddenly devalued...
For example, a site may not rank well if your server stops serving pages to Googlebot or if you've changed the URLs for a large portion of your site's pages
tedster wrote:
As far as I know, link devaluation was not a direct part of Penguin - even though it occurred around the same time. Penguin was a true penalty against specific sites, not just an ignoring of certain links.
Was it possibly the 26th of April?
My site seemed to be ok on the 24th and 25th, but tumbled on the 26th.
I assume a lot of people have now made changes/improvements to their penguin affected site now and are waiting on the next refresh from Google. I think this is going to be a key update as many people would have had time to clean up their backlink profile. At present I can only see one clear example of a penguin recovery from the first refresh, but I assume after the next there will be far more. I hope the next refresh comes soon...
I think it will be around 25th June... just keeping it at monthly intervals approximately. Fingers crossed.
Outland88, did you get a reply back on your reconsideration request?
I'm finding myself on page 1, visitors are not, according to my analytics package
I'm finding myself on page 1, visitors are not, according to my analytics package
Only things done were re-inclusion request (non-WMT), added link on home page, and targeted eight copyright thieves.
Can you tell me how long after the content and/or links from the other sites were removed did you see an improvement to your website's rankings and traffic?