Panda / Penguin Testing on a Site - Has anyone see this?
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Hi,
Trying to diagnose the fall of our site. We fell mainly with Panda 3.4 and then a little more with Penguin.
We have a main site with 200 pages and an attached blog. example domain.com/blog
Then blog that was really small with only 7 posts.
One keyword phrase example: "ace widget software" has ranked # 2 and 3 through the entire storm. The page that is ranking is in our main root site (not the blog).
We used to rank for 200 phrases now only rank for about 10
Over the past week I stumbled on the fact that if I create a new post in my blog, those pages rank in 3 days. Good rankings, #2 on one and at least first page on the other 5 pages. One page ranked #2 in 17 hours.
The test I am conducting:
I am now testing to see if maybe there is some coding issue on our site, we do not use a template but a 3 column design built in Dreamweaver using older style tables etc.
1. Putting a new page on the old design.
2. Taking an existing page and putting into new design without side columns.
3. Already testest - adding new page to blog (success on this test)
Seems if it was a coding issue/ design the two or three keywords phrases that stayed steady through the storm would have fallen.
our site: www.TranslationSoftware4u.com
Has anyone else been adding new content to see it rank really good but cannot get the other pages to bounce back up in rankings?
Open to ideas of why this is happening.
Thanks in advance!
Force7
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Let me make sure I understand the question.
Our corporate name is what DMOZ uses instead of our domain name so our anchor text backlink highest percentage comes from abc corporation at 18%. Second keyword achor text match is 7%, this one links to our page that survived the storm.
We only have about 9 keywords that show any type of percentage on our backlink profile. Although english to spanish translation is a good keyword, more of the keywords that were lost were not even listed as anchor text in our link profile. Example, German Translation Software - dead ringer for what we offer, was first page. Now about #57.
Hope I was on the right track, if not please let me know.
Thanks,
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Google is probably getting better at removing any value from links like this:
http://www.englishdaily626.com/links.php?008
Most of your anchor-text specific keywords come from links pages like this. Am I correct that a good bit of your rankings losses were for keywords like "english to spanish translation"
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