Comments on: Google Penguin 4.0 Recoveries – How These Sites Got a Huge Traffic Boost https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/ SEO Blog | cognitiveSEO Blog on SEO Tactics & Strategies Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:53:25 +0300 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3 By: NewsBalita https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-184529 Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:53:25 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-184529 Hi cognitiveseo, I’ve been reading your blog posts for several days now and I am really loving it.

I am trying to recover from the sudden fall of my website ranking, I don’t know what got wrong but I am optimistic that I will overcome it. I will just keep on reading articles like this and hopefully will be able to get some tips on how will I fix my site. Thanks and more power!

]]> By: Cliff Hyde https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-55748 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:38:52 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-55748 I just like to say thank you for such an informative and well put together article. Keep up the good work!

]]> By: vinayak https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34290 Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:15:05 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34290 Your case studies and proofs just convince me that disavow can work.
Ive read a few posts which said it wouldn’t.
But your results are pretty amazing.

]]> By: Danny https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34239 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:22:08 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34239 Still waiting. Submitted some disavow files for a few sites a few months before p4 so guess they should have been taken into consideration now?

]]> By: Razvan Gavrilas https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34227 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:34:40 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34227 Footer links created with the intent of manipulating the SERPs are considered unnatural. Add NOFOLLOW to them to be on the safe side of things.

]]> By: Edirne https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34217 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:44:50 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34217 If i use footer backlink its like unnatural profile?

]]> By: Colin Cornwall https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34195 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:30:36 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34195 Great article and some great early data . We have seen some spammy competitors of ours move down since penguin 4 which is great news, but we have only seen this happen in desktop search not mobile that remains unchanged. Has anyone else noticed this ?

]]> By: Matt Campbell https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34172 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 02:42:24 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34172 That’s it! Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Razvan Gavrilas https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34166 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:41:59 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34166 indeed patience was required. Some sites were hit in 2013 and recovered just now. pretty painful to say the least.

Imagine if you take no action to protect or recover your site than most likely nothing will happen.

]]> By: Razvan Gavrilas https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/12071/google-penguin-4-0-recoveries/#comment-34165 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:39:42 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=12071#comment-34165 I disagree with the fact that the disavow tool does not work anymore. Google’s representatives said several times that the disavow tool is still required if you have a manual penalty or if you have a highly unnatural link profile or if you think Google should really take in consideration that some links that you flag are unnatural and discount them from the algo.

As you saw these recoveries seem to be highly likely related to using the disavow tool as most of the sites still have a highly unnatural link profile.

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