How to know website is hit with panda or penguin?

[bondhoward]

My Website traffic and keywords dropped day by day. How can I know website is hit with panda or penguin.

Website is - 24hourpassportandvisas. com

[TheeDigital]

Your backlink profile consists mainly of generic directories and generic article sites and almost every link is keyword rich. You most likely are hit with an over-optimization penalty from Penguin. You really need to be more careful on the type of links being built, quality > quantity.

[ofw12387]

You could check on your WMT account if your domain has been affected with a manuall action, but doesn´t look like, actually, looking into my seo tools, I can see that your domain start to rank well after a penguin atack ( October 2013, right? ).

Anyway you really should take care of the SEO of your website, as Richard told you, your link profile is not totally clean, you have lot of links / less domains and i guess that´s coming from footer/sidebar links, which are in many cases not really good for your domain.

You also should take care a little about your seo on page, you have a lot of urls with duplicate title & description tag, i really would recommend you to download Screaming Frog SEO Spider to check it.

Hope this helps

[DonnaDuncan]

Lewis Sellers wrote a blog post in October 2013 called the Ultimate Guide to Google Penalty removal. It explains how to know if you've been hit, how to remedy the situation if you have, and tools to help. Highly recommended.

[MarieHaynes]

Are you able to determine the date(s) on which your decline started?  Often correlating that with the dates from the Moz algorithm guide can help:

http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

A quick look at your backlink profile definitely has me concerned for Penguin. SEMRush.com shows a big drop in traffic that coincides with May 2013.  Given that Penguin updated May 22, 2013, then this makes me think even more that Penguin is the problem.

There could be other issues though too.  I see a lot of sites that work hard to clean up backlink profiles but they can have other problems as well.

My main concern is that I'm not sure if you have good links in your profile. I'm not saying that you don't, but when I look at your links sorted by anchor text, they all seem to be self made links that are only there so that Google rankings can be manipulated.  If Penguin has hit you then it means that those links are discounted.  (It also means that a filter has been placed on your site so it can't have a chance to rank well again until you clean up your links and Penguin reruns.)  I see a lot sites that clean up their backlinks and then wonder why they didn't recover from Penguin, when really the issue is that there is nothing left once the cleanup is done.  Hopefully that is not the case with you!