Is Google limiting Website's Traffic

[fpines]

Is Google either manually or through algorithm limiting a website's traffic that had a manual ban but since has been removed

Our website for organic searches for any keyword has less than 10 clicks per month. The only keyword that gets more than 10 clicks per month is the keyword of the domain

Many of the keywords in Google analytics are showing Page one keywords. The traffic for these key words check by other software's exceeds the amount of impressions Google is showing

Also when I do a keyword search for a keyword that Google is showing in Page one slot , I can never find my domain

[aakk9999]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, fpines!

Are you saying that:
- number of impressions your site gets for a keyword is less than number of searches for this keyword as estimated by a tool(s) you are using
- your click through for all these keywords is less than 10
- when you are searching for a keyword that Google (Webmaster Tools?) is showing as #1, you are not seeing your domain at all?

This is possible because of personalised results. A few searches may be getting personalised results that have your site high up for a particular keyword, but where most other web searches do not see your site. This would explain why you are not seeing your site in SERPs and why you may have a large discrepancy between estimated number of searches and your impressions for the same time period.

We had some discussions on traffic throttling in the past and a good starting point is this thread:

Seeing some big traffic dips with no ranking changes
Nov 27, 2013
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4626454.htm [webmasterworld.com]

But to me it more looks like that your rankings have not really recovered although your manual penalty has been lifted.

[fpines]

What is the best way to try to recover

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We have been trying to come up with a plan for about 6 months

You are correct in the problems

We were considering the following

History
The website is about 425 pages and been done in a software called Netobjects for the last 14 years

Today our traffic is down over 90%

We are a reseller of training courses and classes


We were thinking of dividing the present domain into 3 separate domains concentrating each in a specific area. Doing the sites in Wordpress. (no redundant information). Add at least 5 new pages a week in each domain. Combination of articles and new training courses to each domain.

Questions

1) Should we scrap the old domain that has a PA 48 DA 37 for the home page for a new domain?

2) Should we do the above splitting of the websites into 3 domains? If we do the above and keep the old domain should we use re-directs from the old pages to the new pages. Presently all the pages are in a directory called HTML. Or do we use robot text to to kill spidering of that folder and delete all the pages. This way Google will spyder all the new Wordpress pages and not have any redundancy. We will also put the new Wordpress pages in a better file structure for SEO purposes using keywords

3) How important is having the keyword in the domain name.
I do have several domain names parked as well as a couple of domains that were started as blogs about a year ago, one having a keyword in the domain. Its homepage has a ranking of DA 11 PA 20 and has about 10 articles as far as content but has not been updated in almost 6 months. No outbound links and 2 Inbound links(unsolicited links) and internal links

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

If you need any additional information please let me know

[aakk9999]

What was the reason of your manual penalty? Was it links?
If you do change domain name, will you be able to write to a selection of reputable sites that link to you and ask them to change their links to point to the new site?

[fpines]

To the best of my knowledge the manual ban happened for the following reasons


1) 75% of my back links were keyword driven (Corrected - keywords driven is now about 20%)

2) Being my website is 16 years old we had a lot of directory back links from years ( In the disavow list)

3) We had a company for about 4 months (about 5 years ago) write and post articles in the article directories (unable to correct)

4) There were two domains that had 1500 back links going to our website. (were removed)

I don't know how many of our back links can get moved to the new domain. Many of our links are from older domains. Appx. 40 -50% of our back links are pointed to the home page

[northweb]

many sites are faced with the same situation. I have not seen any success with our older domains. Even adding fresh content daily, blog updates, social media posts, monitoring back links, etc, etc..... fpines is dead on!