Comments on: Unexpected Ranking Boost after Sitewide Links Penalty Reduction

By: Joaquin Poggi

Joaquin Poggi — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:14:50 +0000

Hi , if we have the blog in a subdirectory and this one is in other server, for google looks like we have sitewide link ? would be better having this links in the menu only from home and in the internal with nofollow ? Thanks!

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:08:39 +0000

if your site is new and you put a lot of blogrolls pointing to it you may penalize it.

By: Umar

Umar — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:13:42 +0000

I have a little question, Sitewide links in 2015 are still harmful or less harmful as compared to in 2013? I know that google now consider sitewide link as one but still blogroll link hurts your SEO?

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Fri, 22 May 2015 08:27:46 +0000

sometimes penalty removal does not mean traffic increase because it is like you have never had those links in the first place. this means that you need to acquire new links in order to get higher rankings. if the penalty was removed you are allowed to grow again.

By: Deepak vskart

Deepak vskart — Tue, 19 May 2015 11:32:16 +0000

I read this post from top to till end. Everything mentioned is what I have followed to get the penalty revoked from my site vskart.in however, it has been more than 3 months now, but I could not see any improvement in the traffic. Before penalty, i was getting 800 visits per day and now I am getting 100+ per day only. Is there anything I should do to get the traffic back? As of now, I am doing more Social media than blog commenting, article posting to article directory, etc. as I am now afraid of such things.

Thanks

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:49:16 +0000

Thanks, Nevyana! You bring up a good question.

When we took on the client all of our efforts went into addressing the site-wide manual penalty–a rather large task. We didn’t spend much time optimizing the site from an on-page perspective. So, after getting the site-wide match penalty dropped to a partial match penalty we decided to refocus our efforts on “getting the house in order” to gain more traction in the SERPs.

We knew the partial match penalty was not going to simply disappear. We had all intentions on getting the remaining partial match penalty removed.

I hope this helps shed some light for you.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:27:03 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more, Kostas.

Automation = Fail

Strategy = Success

By: Nevyana Karakasheva

Nevyana Karakasheva — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:56:21 +0000

Great case study Bryan:)

Really interesting story, though it gets me thinking – why after such an indisputable success with your reconsideration request on your first try, you wait for 9 months to try to revoke the remaining penalty as well. Maybe the rankings recovery was satisfactory enough and you were hoping for the penalty to expire?

By: Beakon

Beakon — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:54:26 +0000

Aww..SENuke, now this rings a bell. How many “SEO” tools to count, GSA, Scrapebox, I cannot even remember! Good old times that are now gone.
SEO’s who are stuck in the past are exaclty this, past. Luckily there are tools like CognitiveSEO that can erase your dark, sinful past.
Kostas