{"id":33226,"date":"2013-04-23T22:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=33226"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:33:42","slug":"webmaster-reconsideration-request-no-manual-google-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/04\/webmaster-reconsideration-request-no-manual-google-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Webmaster Reconsideration Request: No Manual Google Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Google webmaster reconsideration request revealed no manual Google penalty. Struck by Google Panda 25<\/a>\u00a0on March 15 2013, and a super quick fall in site traffic since the past few weeks, we filed the second reconsideration request, many months after being hit by Panda 3.2<\/a> in January 2012, \u00a0in an attempt to possibly find a cause to the falling traffic.<\/p>\n

The reconsideration was mainly to inform about the blocked theme backlinks in the disavow file<\/a> we found using the link detox tool<\/a>, to inform the declining numbers of bad backlinks, no guest blogging<\/a>\u00a0and its cleanup, removal of spam comments, fixing thousands of broken links<\/a>, reduce RSS feed scrapping<\/a>, \u00a0a super fast site<\/a>, old hacking events, low ads, good content above the fold and basically to highlight that QOT was a high quality site<\/a> with good content helping webmasters since 2004 and with a huge social media network and an amazing community of readers from all fields in the tech and webmaster niche.<\/p>\n

No manual spam actions found<\/h2>\n

\"traffic<\/p>\n

The webmaster team was quick to reply in 3 days only that there was no manual penalty on the site, and it was an algorithm issue. Here are some excerpts from the email.<\/p>\n

We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site’s ranking in Google. There’s no need to file a reconsideration request for your site, because any ranking issues you may be experiencing are not related to a manual action taken by the webspam team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’ve experienced a change in ranking which you suspect may be more than a simple algorithm change, there are other things you may want to investigate as possible causes, such as a major change to your site’s content, content management system, or server architecture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They pointed to this\u00a0help article<\/a>\u00a0for more support and site issues which was very useful. So there seems to be no sense in filing another reconsideration request, as it is not required.<\/p>\n

That makes me look at more on the internal aspects of our site like webhosting issues, the server settings, csf-lfd blocks<\/a>, robots.txt, htaccess issues or possible another hacking<\/a> event. Another important aspect maybe the placement of single Adsense unit which we use on article pages (as Aseem Kishore pointed earlier), and the heavy ads above the fold layout penalty<\/a> which came closely with Panda 3.2. Maybe the global WordPress attack<\/a> started much before and someone again hacked into our site, which our hosting service is checking as I type this. Thanks for following QOT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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