I just got hammered by a Google penalty - My guess is it was was keyword stuffing anchor text...help!

[sebgates]

Hi, I just woke up to find my website had disappeared from search results in Google relevant to my business keywords. Looking back over the past few weeks I realise I went 'keyword heavy' in a few too many back links. I am careful to avoid websites with a high spam score and have varies anchor text well in the past. However, now the website has 86% less search visibility and I am being penalised for all searches apart from my brand name. I have tried to change as many back links with the keyword in question as I can but some links I can't change.

My questions:

Will this penalty be for good?

What else can I do to rectify the situation?

[TimHolmes]

Also of note - there seems to have been an algorithm update on the 1st - this could have had an impact.

[KristinaKledzik]

Hey Sebastian,

Checking in here - does a penalty still seem to be applied? What have you done so far?

Happy to help, once I've got an idea of where you're currently at.

Best,

Kristina