Help needed i have lost huge rankings

[nick_pageone]

help needed guys, i run a website http://www.happyhop.co.za they sell jumping castles, and thats it, i have worked on this site for the last 3 years and its been preforming very well, after the 2.0 penguin update I lost huge rankings was 1 in google for jumping castles now on page 10...

I went onto webmaster tools reviewed Manual Actions got this (No manual webspam actions found.)

then reviewed my links, ran them through http://www.penguinanalysis.com and my score came back at 125% which is high, but then ran a competitor who is ranking number 1 and they are at 145%...

i have now disavowed a few bad links, and have removed alt tags on my blog http://www.happyhop.co.za/News-and-Articles .... the articles I write are not bloggy and are informative.

I then sent Google a manual reconsideration request, but havent heard back from them?

Still nothing has changed and its been over 3 weeks. Can anyone help me.

[jesse-landry]

Well it definitely sounds like you were hit by Penguin if you have a ton of spammy links coming into this site. Since you don't have any notifications, this is not a manual action and is instead a function of the algorithm itself.

What that means is a reconsideration request probably isn't going to do you much good at all. It definitely won't do any good based on what you've done to correct this. Simply disavowing a few links isn't going to do it. You need to dig through your backlink profile and examine every single link and personally work to remove them from the source. Email webmasters, login to accounts, do whatever you can and document it every step of the way. Screenshots of emails, copies of responses, etc. If they demand money, don't pay it, just take a screenshot and put that with your reconsideration package.

That's something you should be doing either way. Remove as many of the bad links on your own as possible. Google wants to see that you understand what a spam link is and that you've taken effort to clean up the web. This is their end-game. Simply disavowing won't do it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "removed alt tags on my blog." Alt tags shouldn't be a problem.

But what I can say is that quickly glancing at the link you sent there to your "blog" I see another major issue. It looks like you are stuffing keywords into that page. This could be part of your penalty in itself (note: i did not personally examine your backlink profile at this time). The word "jumping castle" appears like a billion times on that page and it reads like you are stuffing keywords.

Your blog articles are redundant and spammy, I'm sorry to say. Look at the titles:

"Jumping Castles and Exercise"

"Why Not Buy a Jumping Castle?"

"Looking to Purchase a Jumping Castle"

"Jumping Castles"

"Jumping Castles come in so many shapes"

!! Okay I just LOL'd at that one I'm sorry. You get my point?

You should take a serious look at this page and these articles.

Write articles that people care about! Ask yourself, "would anybody ever want to share this article with a friend or loved one?" If the answer is no, DITCH IT.

That's my best advice to you for now. I wish you the best of luck. This community is incredibly helpful and they will offer you a ton of advice throughout the process so stick around!

[SEO5Team]

Good response Jesse.