Website disappeared from Google organic keyword searches.

[markindenver]

We have an auto repair company as a client www.autorepairauroratilden.com who for the better part of a year their website had ruled the 1st page organic Google search results. Their website, Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter all came up on page one for their keyword searches. On May 13th, it all came to a screeching halt. The website is nowhere to be found for any of their keywords (example: brake repair Aurora.) There are a couple of blogs on page 2 but it’s nothing like it was prior to May 13th.

On May 12th we published 5 branded websites for this client – Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Jeep, and Toyota, all on separate URL’s.  All the page titles, keywords, and descriptions were specifically branded to the individual websites as were all the keywords.

Since the beginning of June we’ve taken down the 5 branded websites and we’ve gone through our keywords on the auto repair website. The website was last crawled on June 11th. We still do not have any page 1 placement or for that matter any page placement. I checked 10 pages out.

We have a 2nd auto repair client that has been running their website as well as their 5 branded websites a couple of months longer than this client and we’ve had no problems with any of their websites and keyword search results.

How do we fix this?

[William.Lau]

No straight answer but looks like you were hit by Penguin.

Are there any problems in Google Webmaster Tools? How about Bing and Yahoo?

[Copstead]

Looks like you have a lot of bad inbound links from irrelevant websites.

I would start by examining all of your inbound links and the PA/DA and relevance of these sites.

[Copstead]

Did you receive a message or a warning from Google in Google Webmaster Tools?

[markindenver]

Brent,

Thank you very much for your insight and time.  I ran the the site explorer link tool for this site and I'm seeing links where other bloggers are just re-posting blog articles we've done on behalf of our client and leaving the links in tact, http://www.konuyeri.com/2011/12/Auto-Repair-in-Aurora-Colorado/ ,  I'm not sure why or what benefit these links provide them but I could sure see that they could be a negative factor when Penguin's out there looking for spammy links.  Your thoughts?

[Copstead]

Those are the types of links Penguin is going after.

If this is the case, then I would just focus on building higher quality links,and focus on the local markets.

Ahrefs.com has some good insights http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/www.autorepairauroratilden.com

And I would use http://www.linkdetective.com/ to really analyze your links.

[markindenver]

Is there anything that can be done to flush those links out?

[Copstead]

Run a detailed Linkdetective scan and start contacting each blog.

[markindenver]

Thanks Brett - we'll do that