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    Does Unnatural Links penalization cause de-indexation?

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    • BeytzNet
      BeytzNet last edited by

      Hi All,

      One of my sites was under Unnatural Links Manual Penalization.

      Its been over two months since it was revoked and we see no changes at all.

      In fact, we still have couple of pages (important landing pages) that are still de-indexed (I checked it by searching in quotes a whole sentence within the page and got no results).

      Does it mean that even though the site's penalization was revoked it is not completely over yet and I just need to be patient or is there something else hovering over the website?

      Thanks

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      • Theo-NL
        Theo-NL last edited by

        There might be more. Is there any chance you can share the website here? Perhaps with spaces in the domain name so the search engines won't pick up on it? It would help us to have a look at what might be happening over there.

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        • Robert_G
          Robert_G last edited by

          Unnatural Links Manual Penalization causes a heavy traffic drop (you're pushed for keywords you were ranking on page 1 to page 10, for example) but I never heard causing page de-indexation.

          Maybe you have some other issues like a lot of duplicate content, orphan pages, etc.

          Which is your website's URL?

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          • BeytzNet
            BeytzNet @Robert_G last edited by

            Thanks.

            I would rather not share my URL at the moment.
            We do not have duplicated content at all. All is original.

            What do you mean by orphan pages?

            We are an e-commerce website and some products that became obsolete are no longer linked to (orphans). Is that a problem?

            Also, these orphans have nothing to do with the specific problematic page...

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