Comments on: How I Recovered From Google Penguin (Twice)

By: Spencer Mitchell

Spencer Mitchell — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:37:26 +0000

In reply to Julie.

Yes, it could cause problems if your site already has a lot of unrelated links. In your case you should get a domain from your niche.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:49:16 +0000

I have just been hit by the recent penguin update so came across your article. With regards to the redirection of the domain, if the domain has unrelated links, then aren´t these going to add the the problem of links from unrelated pages? as these will be redirected also.

By: Spencer A Mitchell

Spencer A Mitchell — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:28:21 +0000

Thanks for your support John. All in all is cost be about $250 to get back in business –$85 of which was on the aged domain. Definitely worth the money!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:28:23 +0000

Spencer,

Congratulations for recovering from the dreaded Google penguin!

The sudden drop of rank is noticeable but good for you, you were still able to gain the rank back. You must be very hard working for being able to pull it up again. How much is the actual cost you made to get your site up again? Thanks for sharing your experience here.

– John

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:50:22 +0000

Hi Joel,

My pleasure. You can always submit the content to the Fiverr gig providers to make sure you’re getting something of quality.

Thanks,
Spencer

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:03:23 +0000

First off, thanks for the transparency and for sharing this.

But this is one of those extreme, “Wait, WHAT?” moments for me.

Diversifying anchor text to scale usually means MORE profile/blog links, not less. Fiverr articles would more than likely be spun or extremely poor English on less relevant sites.

Everything in me feels like this shouldn’t have worked (I even diversified anchors on one of my sites to no avail)..

So odd.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:17:50 +0000

In reply to John Romaine.

I’m so serious John! There are a LOT of webmasters that have no idea how much a link is worth on their site and go to Fiverr. However, they are truly diamonds in the rough.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:16:42 +0000

In reply to Carlos.

Hi Carlos,

Penguin is a filter that either hits you or doesn’t. If your rankings slipped just a little it was probably the backlinks you list. But if you suddenly tanked one day, it’s Penguin.

Yes, I continued to use the original domain (SurveySpencer.com). The newly acquired one was an aged, PR3 that I got from GoDaddy Auctions. You can easily 301 any domain in your hosting Cpanel.

The blog articles were sometimes related, sometimes not. I went mostly on PR and age of the site.

Thanks,
Spencer

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:13:41 +0000

In reply to Geoffrey Halgand.

Hi Geoffrey,

I would count your blessings that your only in the doghouse with SEOmoz! I have no idea how they update their system but I have been using PA/DA more often nowadays. It’s actually harder to fake than PR!

-Spencer

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:12:09 +0000

In reply to Marlon.

My pleasure Marlon. It’s also a good way to keep out of Penguin’s clutches in the first place!