Ranking dropped significantly

[hisstory2001]

Hi Cesar, thank you!  Those domains should be clean as nobody used those before.

1)  I changed back to 302 on those sites

2. How can I check if my site have bad links?

[jesse-landry]

I'm trying to learn more about this 2.0 Penguin action. The only way to do so is research. Can you please supply us with your domain? We may be able to help further that way anyhow..

To research your link profile, first you need a tool such as Open Site Explorer or ahrefs.

From there, it's simple.

[cbielich]

Bad links are going to take some research. What you need to do is find all the back links you currently have, double check the other domains too. Don't assume they are clean even though you just bought them. Someone still could have owned them in the past.

Once can get your back links from several places. Check them all!

• Google Webmaster Tools
• AHrefs.com
• http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ which is SEOMOZ's

Then you should use the SEOMOZ extension for your browser (I prefer Chrome) which can give you an "estimate" of the trust of those links (I say estimate because nothing is certain, visit each link and look at it yourself.)

If it looks like spam, smells like spam...it must be spam - akums razor

[cbielich]

I wouldn't say it simple

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-penguin-poll-16162.html

[hisstory2001]

Thank you very much!  The following link will take you to our home page. http://tinyurl.com/yfc4dka

Our key words are "private tutor", "Private tutors"

1. When I search the name of our site, we are still no 1.. Meaning google still indexed us.

2. When I search key words above, I can not find our home page among top 20.  But our FAQ page on page 10 and blog page on page 15.

3. When I search private chemistry tutor, our page dedicated to that category is still on page 1.

So is there any bad links associated Private Tutor and Private Tutors?

[jesse-landry]

Yeah I didn't mean it was simple to recover, but simple to discover rather. I'm well aware of the difficulties, believe me.

[hisstory2001]

Thank you very much!  The following link will take you to our home page. http://tinyurl.com/yfc4dka

Our key words are "private tutor", "Private tutors"

1. When I search the name of our site, we are still no 1.. Meaning google still indexed us.

2. When I search key words above, I can not find our home page among top 20.  But our FAQ page on page 10 and blog page on page 15.

3. When I search private chemistry tutor, our page dedicated to that category is still on page 1.

So is there any bad links associated Private Tutor and Private Tutors?

[cbielich]

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/www.nextguru.com%252F

You have recently lost a ton of backlinks to your site this month. 400 roughly since April 23rd especially from swansonheritage.com

Also look at your link diversity

[hisstory2001]

Thank you!  I saw the loss of links.  But I am still puzzled why our site is not even listed on top 20 pages.  The FAQ, which does not have any backlinks, is even listed on page 10.

[cbielich]

Honestly you are most likely having a Penguin Issue. Penguin is known to affect certain keywords, but not all. I would take that mindset and go from there.

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/penguin-strategies/