Understanding and Remediating Google Penalties
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Google Penalties: Identification and
Remediation of Partial and Site-Wide Matches
Steve Krull, Co-Founder & CEO
Dan Reno, VP Organic Media
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Who We Are!
6 year old Chicago based agency
Decades of experience
Dealing with penalties for 4 years
We’re pretty good zookeepers!
Who is he?
Who are you?
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Real Stories
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Case Study Uno
Outcome
Penalty removed and rankings recovered in 6 weeks
Meat & Potatoes
What: Partial Match
Why: Spam Links
Solution / Takeaway:
Link pruning – maintain high-value, remove low value links.
Disavow
Reconsideration
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Case Study Due
Outcome
Removed less than 2 months after identification
Meat & Potatoes
What: Site-Wide Match
Why: Sub-domain Linking Strategy
Solution / Takeaway:
Immediate Site Change to Global Footer (read: Follow Google’s Rules)
Sub-domain Level Disavow Files
Reconsideration
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Case Study Tre
Outcome
Penalty Removed after 9months and 3 reconsideration requests
Meat & Potatoes
What: Partial Match
Why: Site-wide links from clients
Solution / Takeaway:
Cleanup old guest posts – Transparency
Identify potential foul play – Competition
Client / customer links done the wrong way can get you penalized
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Penalty Life Lessons
Beware of the following:
Site-wide links (even if branded)
PR – Monitor very closely
“Negative SEO”
Repetitive Anchor Text
Repetitive Anchor Text
Warning signs:
Usually several weeks in advance
Ranking drops
Steady traffic decline
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Identify, Research, Remediate
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Houston, We Have A Problem!!
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Full / Site-wide MatchZip, Zilch – No Rankings
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Partial MatchPulled from SERPs for specific phrases
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Finding the Clues
Before After
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First, Low Hanging Fruit
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Deep Dive
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A Helpful Mindset for Backlinks
Gauging Intent
“For Search Engines”
“For Benefit of Users”
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Commit
Reaching Out To Google
Acknowledge
Detail
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Summary
Identification
Analytics – Traffic dip, drop, plummet!
BrightEdge – All of the above plus rankings!
Webmaster Tools – “Dear John” from Google
Understanding
“Full” or “Site-Wide” Match
Partial Match
Finding the Clues
Precursors
Big Trends / Patterns
Gauging Intent
Solving the Problem
Backlink Cleanup (Quick Wins First)
Reconsideration Request
Disavow
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Thank You!!
Steve Krull, Co-Founder & CEO
Dan Reno, VP Organic Media
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Appendix:
Manual Action Definitions
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Tools to Help Along the Way
Disavow Tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
Reconsideration Request Tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
Glossary of Manual Actions: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-actions-spam-
17204.html
Helpful Resources
http://befoundonline.com/seo/4464/life-google-penalty-rebuilding-credit-google
http://befoundonline.com/seo/4427/panda-penguin-google-penalties
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All Manual ActionsHandy Link: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-actions-spam-17204.html
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Manual Actions
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