Significant drop in traffic

[imrubbish]

Hi there,

We run 3 websites in a similar niche (bins) but tend to have a different area of focus on each site, wheelie, recycling and general litter. They all have unique descriptions, images etc (as much as possible) One of our sites has been a long standing penalty sufferer and we still dont want to give up on it. They are all located on unique IP's but on the same server with the same owner in whois.

My question is could our site that has struggled with a penalty in the past be effecting our other sites which havent had problems?

I know google likes to see brands and we do regular content, social media etc on all the sites,

The drop came today and appears across all our sites. The main site that had the penalty usually gets around 50 visits a day from search, so far today it has had 10 and that is most of the working day now gone.

I hope someone can shed a little light on the issues we are facing

Thank you

Jon

[FedeEinhorn]

Whois data, nameservers, ips, etc, are no longer used to rank Websites, according to Google (you can't penalize a site because another stepped into a dark area. Lots of sites use private whois, reverse proxies, etc).

If you had a penalty on one of your sites, are you sure you didn't make the same mistake on the other sites?

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Federico,

Could you give us a link for this? Would be nice to be able to quote it in the future. Thanks!

[FedeEinhorn]

Ufff, took me a while to find this one, and I'm sure I saw another one talking about nameservers, too (back when I was researching SEO impacts of using cloudflare, you know, hundreds of sites using the same nameservers).

watch?v=Z9Ka0fzyZbk

[imrubbish]

Hi,

Yes i am fairly sure as a previous SEO company caused all the bad linking. This website has all been organic growth and links.

Page visits are down by half, time on site is down by almost half. Is something else a miss?

Are rankings for our biggest keyword in a competitive sector is still at 3 on Google UK, so i dont think its a penalty.It could be a browser issue or conflict, i just dont know! the site is recyclingbins dot co.uk

Thanks for your help