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    • RustyF
      RustyF last edited by

      I was hit very hard in the last Google update. Yes, i was building links. Before i started doing that, i was earning $1 a day despite having a very good blog. i saw my income rise to $3000 a month over the last year.  Now I'm back to $1 a day.

      I have suspected it was coming for the last two months because of the things Matt Cutt's has been saying. Worked hard to avoid it but not hard enough.

      i stopped using blog networks after Build my Rank got hit.  I've been using another tool known as ABC3000 or Automatic Backlink Creator. Its not automatic. 😉 That's the tool that got me the rankings and that's the tool that took them away. 🙂 I've removed all links from the tool now.

      Yeah, I know its a bad sign to loose 10,000 links all at once but Google already knows so the best thing to do is get ride of them.

      ALL of my sites were hit, not deindexed. I'm seeing minus 30 and minus 100 penalties.

      One of the websites has 10,000 + Pages.

      I've got one on page issue that revolves around my forum, vBulletin is causing a massive amount of duplicate page titles. I don't know how to fix that. It looks like each post creates a new page with the title of thread. I plan ot move it to another domain but I'm fearful of doing that. I'm not sure how. I will research it.

      But the Google slap is massive and I'm really wondering if I have any hope of restoring a site with good content and good social signals with good engagement. A TRUE bounce rate of less than 30% was higher before the slap at about 23%. I have an average of 4 to 5 minutes per visitors. All my stats look great except 1.  That's SERP results as of April 24th, also known as my personal dooms day. haha

      Trying to keep my head up but it is starting to get hard now.

      Thanks for the help,

      Rusty

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      • jim_cetin
        jim_cetin last edited by

        you have already answered your own questions:-)

        Nothing to add there!

        Good Luck

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        • BonsPlansvacances
          BonsPlansvacances last edited by

          You can always get back. Be more social (Facebook likes, Google + likes), create good content and get back to basics. That's my focus now !

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          • RustyF
            RustyF @jim_cetin last edited by

            Unsure why anyone would make that as a good answer as it didn't help me at all.

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