A couple of weeks back my blog homepage was not appearing in Google search results for primarily branded keywords like “All Tech Buzz” “Alltechbuzz” or even “Alltechbuzz.net”.
This was quite shocking, and I was astonished to see such thing happening. Other than this everything was quite normal. I didn’t find any notification on Google Webmaster nor my traffic decreased. This has raised several questions in my mind like.
Negative SEO:
Intentionally or Unintentionally, I have built quite a good number of haters online, and these people help me in building backlinks since the time I stopped working on it. I don’t build link anymore, but various other people do link building for my sites to drop my rankings.
To be very honest negative SEO doesn’t hurt your rankings in most of the cases. But there are cases when negative SEO affects your blog/website. So, you must keep an eye on the rankings and links that are pointing to your website. I do use premium tools to monitor my backlinks and rankings. I also keep on disavowing the links that I feel are suspicious and irrelevant. I do this once for every two months. But after investigating more into the issue, I found that it was not negative SEO that has lead to deindexing of the homepage.
What was the root cause?
After I had dug deep into my backlinks and Google Webmasters link report, I found that many sites were linking to my homepage with the anchor text “All Tech Buzz”. More than a year back I have designed a couple of templates especially the popular ATB Blogger Template, which has got quite a good response from Bloggers and was used by many newbies/experts as it was having many built-in features with easy editing feasibility.
After all the major Google Updates in the past two years, the way Google looks at backlinks has completely changed. Links are good but too many of them is bad. So, I had too many of them which had a negative impact.
As soon as I noticed the issue, I collected all the websites that are pointing to my homepage with footer link credits. I placed them in a text file and disavowed them. In some cases, I directly contacted the webmaster to remove it and some were kind to do the same. If you want to know more about Disavowing links, then you should check out my article on Negative SEO.
Additionally:
As I didn’t have any notification on Google Webmaster, there was no chance of re-appeal. That means there was no manual action and it was entirely algorithmic.
I also decided to remove site-wide links that were pointing to my other websites from the homepage of All Tech Buzz as a precaution.
Increased the frequency of Articles for a better indexing.
Results:
Within no time, the homepage started popping up on Google Search results for the branded keywords like “All Tech Buzz” , “Alltechbuzz” etc. This is probably my best new year gift and this again proved that if you are not following any unethical ways to build your website/blog then the chances of you getting penalised by Google either manual or algorithmic is probably “0”. You can see the blog showing up clearly in search results below.
Let me know if you have any similar experience in your comments below. You can also directly hit me a mail to [email protected] if you need any help in SEO.
Saiprasad S says
Useful info Imran…All the best buddy…
DNN says
Inspiring. At least it’s good to know there’s a way to get relisted in Google search results after being delisted for whatever reason. Gives publishers and full-time bloggers hope about building a full time online business via content marketing.
Pradeep Kumar Rana says
Happy new year imran bro. Ranking high in google is best new year gift for any blogger.. Best wishes to you for 2016.
sreekanth says
nice guide bro ..i think your experience will help me a lot and other bloggers also
Mridul says
Nice Share Imran. Sometime too many backlinks hurt the site rankings…
Mohammed says
Nice Article Bro… Great Information…
rajesh says
Good Case Study. Recently i too faced this problem.
For new site i build link with website brand name and my brand name ranking dropped from 12 to 240.
Should i remove the link or change the anchor text ?
Abhijeet K says
Rightnow Same thing happening with me.I googled this but not much satisfied.I want to try thisout.Thank you Imran .You saved me .
Mahendra Kumar says
Its really advance SEO expert’s post, After watch video feel very bad People are building Porn backlinks on Your site, Don’t know why they are jealous from you. One question that now Homepage (sidewide) backlinks is Safe?
Sweekruthi says
The same thing happens with my site Imran.. Lost almost 90% organic traffic from Google in a single day.Started disavowing links as you said and waiting for the result
Abhi says
Hello Imran.
Very Useful Information.I have a question bro. If we make free backlinks ( that are provided by some websites in bulk ) to a domain that is ranking higher than our website then will that domain suffers low ranking or not.
saijad says
i have seen this issue on your site while searching about alltechbuzz in google. i thought to inform you but while busy in work i forgot this matter. happy to see that you solved that.
Thank you
NaveeNReddY says
Nice article bro.
Rudra Ramyasree says
Hi Imaran ,
i am recently started website on job and carrier guidance.for website promotion SEO services are very important
.your article helped me very much about website marketing strategies .you experience in blogging very rich
thanks for such information
Monish kumar mv says
Hai imran,
It happend to me like this few weeks ago but luckily i got it back.
The content was really useful
Mahesh Yarramsetti says
Nice article Imran … i got a new infromation from your experience
karamath says
very helpfull article bro thanks for the advice .
Sachin Nayi says
Same Thing Happen To Me
salman says
Imran.. This is the kind of world we live in, not to get regretted, but to show what we are capable of , you proved it again kudos!
Ryan says
That was very shocking, but how you recovered was amazing.
Basheer Orsala says
Hello Imran,
Cheers, that you have recovered your blog. Btw a nice case study.
Keep sharing such strategies.
craiglerr says
It looking great, You re-indexed your blog with clever trick. Congrats and thanks for sharing this!
Mehul singh says
Hey Bro keep it up we love your blogs 🙂
Mehul singh says
i also share your this article in my blog today if any one face same problem so they can recover it.
thanks again.
TechnoProtocol says
Awesome Post Bro It helped me a lot & keep up the post’s like this
Vishal Jaswal says
Hey! Imran I have recently started a blog on seo and blogging niche. And your blog is helping me a lot.
Thanks for the useful posts.
Keep it up man.
Vishal,
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Sona Mathews says
That is really good thing to know how to get re index pages if they get deindexed by mistake. Thank you for posting this information.
Alex Shabu says
yes i totally agree with you
Ashish T says
Nice article bro.
Alpesh Desai says
Bro help me
My site Foreworetech.com first i hosted from wordpress but i getting error so i transfer my site on blogger.and my old post is not good so i deleted all post and i start my new site with new post but google index error how can i index my site . Running hosting platform blogger so i have not knowledge how to sitemap please help me.google search results is show my all old post but not any post showing on google.how can i do next help me
Aqib Anjum says
I’m Facing The Same Problem But Not with My Homepage, I’m Facing This Problem with my Posts
Akash Patel says
Nice Article Man! Helpful Cheers ! 🙂
Pritam says
very very usful information on to know how to get re index pages .Thanks for sharing valuable article.
Mahish Dino says
very helpful article bro thanks for it
Shivankar says
Is there any way to remove manual penalty on a blog which has been completely de-indexed.
Noman says
Imran I have the Same Issue My home Page is Deindex and Rest Of the site pages are Indexed Don,t Know Why But After Searching of Google i got Your post I was doing The same Thing as you done i exchange my websites likes With each Other In the Footer and with Direct Anchor Text which were Showing thousands Of backlinks in my web master tools From a Singe Domain so after reading This removed all the Links Which I put On my others sites now Lets See How its Works and How Long Its take to Work ………..