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    • Tiger-Insurance
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      • eyepaq
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        Hi,

        Are you 100% sure it was the recent algo that affected you ?

        The Penguin update was released on May 22 - did you lose a lot of rankings site wide starting with this date ? In the same day in UK there was also the Domain Crowding update rolled out.

        Your visibility so far is looking good:

        http://screencast.com/t/d70j6RMFd

        In a few days you can see if you lost domain wide rankings.

        What I am saying is that you need to be sure if you got affected and by what in order to fight that  . As if you didn't get hit by Penguin you will go after this link hunt and spend resources for nothing.

        I would suggest to make sure what did affected you and what is the damage - based on that you can outline the strategy.

        Getting back to your questions:

        Other than the Disavow tools and manually contacting people to take down the links is there anything else we can do?

        ** No - if it's (the issue) related with links.

        Is it worth going through the content, meta data and other 'on page factors'?

        ** Only if you have really bad spamy issues on page - based on a first overview you don't. (unless you are hiding it very good 🙂

        Hope it helps.

        Cheers.

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          • Robert_G
            Robert_G last edited by

            Using Open Site Explorer, it looks like the keywords "Car Insurance" and "Compare Car Insurance" were heavily used as anchor texts.

            You might want to get a more versatile backlink profile (I'd do that).

            Analyzing your backlinks revealed that many of then come from press releases. You can also try to mix things better.

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