Site has no traffic but ranks in top 30 for many keywords

[Miamirealestatetrendsguy]

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Was it a manual or automated penalty?

If it's automatic, it can take a long while before things return to 'normal'. Obviously if you've disavowed lots of links, then you'll have lost any value they were originally offering, so to get back to the same ranking positions, you'll need to build a lot of new, clean, ethical links with a decent value.

Throwing your url into Open Site Explorer immediately throws up some links I'd want to investigate and potential remove for starters. If you've already been penalised, still having any dodgy links in place will continue to cause issues.

The other thing is that traffic to the keywords etc may have changed over time. It's worth considering whether there are other trends (e.g. a downturn in the housing market), which might mean even ranking number 1 for a term won't bring in as much traffic as it did pre-penalty, simply because not as many people are looking for it...

[Miamirealestatetrendsguy]

Hi,

The penalty was automated. I have never gotten any manual penalties for the site.

Thanks for taking a look at my site. I have disavowed anything noted at toxic on the semrush scale above 50. I did this over three occasions in the last 6 months. If there is still anything showing up in site explorer its probably already been disavowed. I will take a look again.

And, yes, you are right. I have to double down on link building. I probably need to outpace my competitors but they are getting links from legit news outlets nowadays.

The market is decent actually, the big headlines say otherwise but there are buyers at every price point for luxury real estate. The problem is getting them from the site as opposed to word of mouth. This is why I am here