Recovered from Penalty But.....
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Hello,We recovered from Google's manual penalty in January 2014. Afterwards, we changed our site design, fixed our content, disavowed bad links, increased our social presence, tried to engage customers in blog content, etc. But we still couldn't get our domain name back on SERPs. (It wont show our site even on first page if I search "best vpn service" on Google.com)What should we do to bring our domain name back on the SERP?What About Sandbox? What we need to do to get out our domain name from sand box?Any comments or thoughts will be really appreciated
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Thank you for quick response. We are working on co-citation (and we get many natural links from highly authoritative domain), Further, we already stopped any kind of automated link building. I dont think so we were effected from other algos, I
m saying this because whenever google launched new algo update, we didn
t see any drop in traffic yet. We solved many technical issues, suggest new design, improve breadcrumbs, remove ambiguous java scripting, setting up tags, fix metas, fix content etc but wont find any positive change in organic results. I agreed to some extent, our old automated links done much damage to us but we finally recovered from manual penalty, had removed bad links and continuously monitored our link profiles. But Wont recover our rankings and traffic.And i will definitely try to follow your article
Thanks Again.
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That sounds like a pretty competitive term. Once you take away your unnatural links, do you think you have enough truly natural links to support rankings?
If so, here are some other possibilities:
-You could be held back by another algo such as Panda, above the fold or keyword stuffing.
-Perhaps you still have more links to disavow? Often new ones will keep popping up. Are you doing monthly disavows?
-Perhaps there are technical site issues that are holding you back?
My guess though is that your previous rankings were based on links that are now considered unnatural. I wrote a Moz article last year on this type of thing:
http://moz.com/blog/after-penalty-removed-will-traffic-increase
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