Comments on: Google Penguin 3.0 Recoveries and Penalties – A Unique & In-Depth Analysis

By: Cathy Mayhue

Cathy Mayhue — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:40:10 +0000

This is an interesting study about impact of the much feared Penguin 3.0. But this was expected as Google and every well meaning individual want to see evolution of SEO as a scientific process which should involve genuine methods and only those people who are knowledgeable and work hard succeed eventually.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:37:38 +0000

shady links are surely bad, and what my sites are getting now is over 5000 of spam links coming from bad sites. Don’t know whos abusing my sites and it really hurts.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:58:14 +0000

tks for the appreciation Alex. good work and authority seems to jump at least after 6 months since the moment you started putting constant work into it. It may be sooner but it should be something that stands out 😉

By: Alex Periera

Alex Periera — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:47:21 +0000

You have worked really hard to come up with these astounding results Razvan. But I have a question, as many others always wanted to know, what is the average time Google takes to acknowledge and reward a ‘good work’ at link building?

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:43:43 +0000

hi Rahul,

sorry to hear about your issues. you need to carefully investigate your domain for the unnatural links that caused the issue. First double check the GWT messages to correctly identify the problem.

If too many links are unnatural . Lets say over 80% it may be a choice to start over with a new domain. The Google Places address you may keep on the old site and create a new site for organic for the moment or do a 301 to the new site after a complete disavow has been approved and/or you remove the unnatural links.

hope this helps.

By: rahul

rahul — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:32:00 +0000

Hi..I have been hit by Penguin 3.0..I am in doubt whether to go for a new website or rectify the old one..My website used to receive 300 visits everyday( not much but used to bring decent business) and this has dropped to 40 odd now.. I have about 3000 external links from 280 domains…most links are bad..

Also needed to know that if I do create a new website , can I retain my address in Google places ( I have an offline business too) and also the company address and contact details? Just worried that Google may come to know about this and impose a penalty on my new website..

Kindly let me know which is the best options as my business has suffered quite a bit from October 17..

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:05:31 +0000

cool. let us know if you have any questions 😉 here is the documentation also http://support.cognitiveseo.com/

By: Inbound Marketing - beakon

Inbound Marketing - beakon — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:09:24 +0000

Starting my CognitiveSEO trial right now!!

By: Patrice Krysztofiak

Patrice Krysztofiak — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:29:50 +0000

We observe about the same pattern in france, lots of sites where we did a clean up recovered.
Many black hats were hit ( using cloacking and heavy 301 redirects ).
I’m not absolutely convinced about the directory ratio, especially for the french market, since directory owners are very paranoid about what gets listed ( they check for duplicate content etc.. ), so these are still very powerful over here.

By: SERPLinker

SERPLinker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:59:22 +0000

Thanks for our analysis, Razvan!
Do your know how to anticipate the web sites that enjoyed a significant Google Penguin Recovery ?