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Your sites rankings wouldn't have dropped if your site was not penalized for spam. you may want to double check your SEO guys work.
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Your sites rankings wouldn't have dropped if your site was not penalized for spam. you may want to double check your SEO guys work.
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Rankings can drop for all sorts of reasons, surely you know that already.
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Yeah but rick says this in the original post
"This site was LOVED by google a year ago. A well meaning friend used techniques that apparently used to work but caused my site to effectively be destroyed."
From what he says it sounds like a spam penalty and I'd agree with ygmm and say time is best spent on a new site. If I were you rick, I would use the disavow tool and then if that doesn't work just move all your content to a new domain.
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Should Prob take 3-5 Web Properties ( Parasite Props like Wordpress.com/Weebly/Tumblr and rank them for CA Medicare KWS with SPAM)
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I am working on a new site as there is no telling if anything can be done to the old site. I'm very unhappy because I was in the top 3 positions for a nubmer of well searched terms.
I'll look into the disavow tool as well unless using it will guarantee my site will never come back. I'm worried about additional downside.
My "new" guy is very good at what he does and suggested I just leave the site alone. I'm thinking I really have little to lose.
Unfortunately, I don't have any skills to get things done.
Rick
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I'm curious as to what the benefit of just "leaving it alone" will do? Do some research on the disavow tool and use with caution it is a newly released tool. You are basically asking Google to ignore certain links. The downside is you can actually disavow links that are helping you if you do not know what you are doing.
I have read up on it and it has worked for some people and has not for others. I would recommend it as a last resort.
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We already knew this. No use in beating a dead horse...
georgetx
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Hello everyone, following up as I said I would..
I used the disavow tool after all for my site. Mainly links that looked spammy (where there were lots of other links back to back). Otherwise, I didn't disavow too many links.
Because... Google's official reply was that they hadn't done anything manually to lower my ranking.
It was a form letter, sure, but somewhat reassuring. Then again, I dropped off the map. So "manually" could be interpreted as a diplomatic admission that their algorithms popped me. At any rate, I'd done the disavowing before the review/letter from Google hit my webmaster tools inbox. I'm also taking Larry's advice to make my reviews look good. I had a cheesy looking star review thing on there and I didn't like it.
Thanks!
I used the disavow tool after all for my site. Mainly links that looked spammy (where there were lots of other links back to back). Otherwise, I didn't disavow too many links.
Because... Google's official reply was that they hadn't done anything manually to lower my ranking.
It was a form letter, sure, but somewhat reassuring. Then again, I dropped off the map. So "manually" could be interpreted as a diplomatic admission that their algorithms popped me. At any rate, I'd done the disavowing before the review/letter from Google hit my webmaster tools inbox. I'm also taking Larry's advice to make my reviews look good. I had a cheesy looking star review thing on there and I didn't like it.
Thanks!
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"make my reviews look good"
Just curious...but was that referring to YELP reviews etc...or something else?
Just curious...but was that referring to YELP reviews etc...or something else?
Rick, my site dropped for my main keyword as well. I hired a new consultant today to try to get me back on Page 1 for search term "long term care insurance." If he succeeds, I will give you his name. He seems confident that he can get my site back to where it was last year.
