Penalized?

[jenadams]

But is this is true then why aren't all of our pages affected?  Furthermore, the seomoz tools for suggest that the French page earns an "A". Furthermore, from what I have read, it doesn't make much sense to change up a URL because the improvements are very substantial.  Any thoughts?

[Kotkov]

I don't think that the problem is only in url.

What do you mean only several pages were affected?

graphs.php?domain=themarketinganalysts.com&db=us&type=1&w=300&h=200&lc=e43011&dc=e43011&l=en

[jenadams]

We have a lot of other pages that still maintain top 5 listings. Here is one example:

http://tinyurl.com/n687b8

[jenadams]

By the way, THANK YOU for helping.   What else do you think it is?  I realize Panda had a freshness update, but the other sites that we compete with never change their content.  We had some technical problems but for the most part, they have been fixed.

[jenadams]

Here is a link that still maintains good positioning.

http://tinyurl.com/n687b8

[jenadams]

Here is a link that still maintains good positioning.

http://tinyurl.com/n687b8

[Kotkov]

Jenadams,

I see some issues from the beginning but I don't see that they would drop traffic like that. I can take a closer look next weekends when I have some time. If it helps my skype is in my profile.

Regards,

Serge

[jenadams]

That would be great!

Thank you

[JarnoNijzing]

@serge: does a high keyword density penalise your rankings? I used to make sure i was at 2-5%....

[JarnoNijzing]

For starters i would suggest redirecting those very very very keyword spamming url's to more user friendly urls:

french-translation.html or something.

From you analytics picture-> all out of nothing your visitors dubble and out of nothing they drop? Something you did prehaps?

[jenadams]

It wasn't really all or nothing.  Most of these were near the top of the second page or somewhere near the middle of the second page.  They all sort of entered the first page one after the other.  I'm not really sure if anything was done off page to cause this sort of penalty.  We do try to build links but I don't know if some of these were looked at as bad links or if some lost a lot of value.  I know that at the time the drop took place we did have some technical problems with our site that took a while to fix.  I can't say for sure if those problems cause the penalty either. Aside from doing a lot of SEO in-house we also have a low cost provider and they assured us that all of their activities were legit.

I know we have some bad links that were mostly due to scrapers who stole some of our content, re-wrote it and left a portion of our URL on a page.  I think this sort of thing happens to all sites.  The vast majority of our links should be good though.  WMT tools shows that we have a little over 220,000 links to our pages.