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My site was hit by Panda last July and has been going down farther with every Panda update (traffic down to about 20% of what it used to be). I was too busy working on other sites for several months to try and figure out what was wrong but I suspect it was overoptimiztion, which I've been trying to fix since march, to no avail. I'm still ranking high for non $ keywords but all my $ keywords are off the chart. None of my 50 client sites were hit by Panda. I only experimented with my own site!

I would apprecite it if someone can look at my site and let me know if they see anything that I should change.

Edited by happygeek because: moved to SEO forum
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For : a sustained drop to about 20% of prior traffic that continues after multiple Panda refreshes most often points at site‑quality signals (thin, templated or duplicate commercial pages, heavy ad density, poor E‑A‑T), while Penguin‑style problems show as unnatural anchor‑text patterns in the link profile. ’s mention of Penguin is relevant; was also correct that a reconsideration request only applies to manual actions, not algorithmic demotions.

A practical diagnostic checklist includes: check Google Search Console (manual actions and crawl errors) and align Analytics date ranges against known updates; export organic landing pages and rank them by traffic, revenue and index count to find low‑value pages; run a crawl to surface duplicate titles, missing canonicals, thin content (many commercial pages under ~300 words), and indexable filter/category pages; and audit inbound anchor‑text distribution for excessive exact‑match commercial anchors.

Recovery should be staged and measurable. First, prune or consolidate low‑value pages (301 or noindex) and focus editorial effort on the highest‑value landing pages. Second, rewrite priority pages to meet clear user intent, add transparent author/credential info and sources (E‑A‑T signals), and fix canonical/meta/robots issues. Third, remediate links by requesting removals for clearly spammy placements; use disavow only after documented removal attempts and if a manual link action exists. Emphasize earning brand mentions and editorial links rather than chasing exact‑match anchors, which ties back to ’s point about brand anchors but with quality first.

Recovery is rarely instant—expect weeks to months and measure impressions, CTR, organic sessions and conversions in Search Console/Analytics. Because none of the 50 client sites were affected, the root cause is likely specific to this site’s content architecture or historical link profile; a methodical audit (content pruning → technical fixes → link remediation) gives the best chance of restoring commercial keyword visibility.

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Member Avatar for stevenpeter

I am alos suffering that kind of problem which is caused by google penguin. I need your help plaese anyone can help us in that condition.

Member Avatar for arold10

Overoptimize your site should not be an issue, I don't think that can get your site penalized. There are several factors that can affect your ranking. I bet that if you file a reconsideration request, you're not going to get a reason from Google why your ranking get dropped. If your traffic went down to 20%, it may well be that your competitors have outranked your site. If you were hit by the Panda update, it would have been much worse.

Member Avatar for kcdablog

Maybe you should try a different outreach to build ou links. Google has started loving BRAND ANCHORS. Especially the ones which are EARNED. Guest blogging is one such way to achieve it.

Member Avatar for android45

I think best way to come out of this is to add good content and do onpage, offpage in ethical way with that build quality backlinks from hige page rank & dofollow sites it will help you to gain your ranking back on google.

Member Avatar for smart.samanthaa

Please change your all content in website. After that maybe you can get batter result.

Member Avatar for Steffy_Rose

May I see your website please??? So that I can say the solution for you...

Member Avatar for jewelraz

It's very sad to hear that one's website got hit from Google. You can pm me with your website details. I will give a free review.

Member Avatar for DiskusiASI

check your website

Member Avatar for kellys

If your website is over-optimized then try to optimized it with the properly with your targeted keywords. If you have already done with it then collect the quality backlinks. It will help you to get your ranking back in the search engines

Member Avatar for stefenm

For getting recover your ranking from the Panda update, you have to collect quality backlinks for your website for getting good ranking over the search engines

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