Timeline for Could my website be penalized for listing videos in a popup via the YouTube API?
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 0:14 | comment | added | Michael d | The footer backlinks could indeed penalize you. I would look more into that. I believe Google has penalized sites that link to another site on all of its pages and can consider that to be a PBN or link farm. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | she hates me | My backlinks was natural, I haven't done much effort on it. Also disavowed spammy ones. But I've given a backlink from my other site with same anchor, on every page (65000 pages). Could it be the reason? | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 9:48 | comment | added | Michael d | It's possible that it was hummingbird. But hummingbird was about conversational understanding and didn't penalize websites that much. Penguin 2.1 was released in October of 2013 which hit many websites hard. Penguin 2.1 allowed Google to read the pages of inbound links pointing to your site. If those pages linking to you were low quality then your website got hit. Is it possible that you had a low quality backlink system going at the time? searchenginewatch.com/sew/study/2323727/… | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 9:23 | comment | added | she hates me | Sep 4,2013, it could be related to Hummingbird. And maybe because of Youtube links I mentioned on question. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 9:20 | comment | added | Michael d | If your site is mobile responsive as you say, then it's probably a penalization as you mention. Something seems to have gone wrong. What was the date that the traffic fell? It's possible to lookup Google updates from that date and see if they might have applied to your site. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 9:16 | comment | added | she hates me | Thank you for your answer but my site is not even listed in 500 results for homepage, it’s weird. It was in first 3 before penalty. Also my site is old but not its technology. Fully responsive and mobile compatible (with viewport tags) | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 6:22 | history | answered | Michael d | CC BY-SA 3.0 |