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Thanks for your response Peter.

I think I do have a lot of exact match anchored links. Are you referring to in-linking on my website, or external inbound links?

I have a large network of websites (geographical location + industry domain names) which all pretty much have the same content, and the exact same links pointing back to my main site. We haven't had time to go through all of our sites yet because we've put all focus on our main website - which had been seeing tons of progress until Penguin hit!

It looks like it was the penguin update that hit us. Our traffic dropped significantly over the weekend, it was relatively normal for the rest of the month of May.

What can I do at this point?

Hi,

Over the last couple of days I have found a HUGE drop in traffic. I checked a lot of our rankings, and we are definitely out of the game for at least a few keywords (not on 1st page). Our ranking has dropped on other keywords. We even dropped to #2 (for the first time ever) for our branded keyword search term.

What happened?! Could it have been the Penguin update, 1 month after it was released?

Help!

It's not my website, it's the server but thanks for the advice!

I use WP Super Cache but it hasn't helped.

Hi,

I am currently with a very slow server. Our website takes quite a while to load, FTP is very slow and content changes with Wordpress are slow because even the database connection takes a lot of time.

However, my website ranks very well. Traffic has doubled in the last year. Our domain has been registered with this company for over 10 years. I am wondering if changing to a different hosting provider would have an effect on my rankings due to the change in IP.

Does anyone use this service? Does it produce any duplicate content issues?