Here’s another great question I got from an old friend through facbook. He writes,
LT
i need your advice. I have a couple of web sites I developed with a friend.
One of them http://www.druglib.com/ was penalized some months ago and dropped to less then half of it’s traffic. It was growing uite nicely until then.
We were at almost 300K visitors/month at the peak.
It’s coming back but slowly.
Any idea why this could be?
I love your posts btw.
Thanks
xyz.
And here’s my 10 cent answer…
Read the google webmaster tools (GWT) guidelines for why you would be penalized. Associations with/Links to less-than-reputable sites or joining a link farm or doing kw spamming are very easily detectable by google. See if you can pin point the source of the loss to better diagnose. Is it loss from all search, or just google. Is it your kw rankings that have dropped? Has you site been up more than a year so you can check %YOY stats?
Just don’t do any black hat stuff and provide you market with as much great content as possible and you’ll be in good standing. There is a way in GWT to ask for reconsideration of your site if and only if you determine that Google has penalized it.
That’s all I can offer without really knowing your site, link associations and analytics. Hope this helps.
(Always get as much information as you can into a problem before asking an SEO. Like this question, most of my answers to Q&A questions are done without looking at the site.)
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