I need help for my web site www.manolyahotel.com

[Webnauts]

Manolya Hotel: I would look at doing a site update, and cleaning up the entire code. Giving the site a facelift to freshen up the look and focus on quality SEO will help your site substantially, both from an Search Engine and customer point of view.

Me and my team did all that. Any further suggestions?

[Webnauts]

So has this penalty been verified by anyone yet?

I confirm that site was penalized. I am still trying to recover the damage.

[incrediblehelp]

I confirm that site was penalized.

From who Google? Just curious

Can you explain the problem again. I have not heard of this issue since last year.

[Webnauts]

I confirm that site was penalized.

From who Google? Just curious

Can you explain the problem again. I have not heard of this issue since last year.

As we both know, the -30 filter is a penalty that Google applies to web sites that use spammy SEO techniques. If Google applies the penalty to a web site, the rankings of that site are downgraded by 30 positions.

Our client reported that he had top rankings on Google and now he cannot get beyond position 31 in Google. He had #31 rankings for the keyword which appeared #1, and other of their keywords moved much further on Google accordingly.

I examined the keywords previous position then the on e they went to, and it was an obvious -30 penalty.

The client pages did not have all over unique titles, description and keywords meta tags. And the description and keywords tags were not relevant to the pages content.

His title tags were not marked-up properly. He had something like <title=......></title>

Site was linking to some bad neighborhoods sites. Found some site that they were banned.

Almost all pages if not all (I cannot remember exactly) were in the supplemental results, including the homepage, even if he had PR and quality IBLs.

Markup and semantical structure was a disaster,

Many duplicated pages, and many with almost no content (or too less).

That is all I can remember so far.

I tried to fix the issues on the old site where possible temporally, so things would not get worse until the redesign and SEO was done.

[incrediblehelp]

The client pages did not have all over unique titles, description and keywords meta tags. And the description and keywords tags were not relevant to the pages content.

His title tags were not marked-up properly. He had something like <title=......></title>

Site was linking to some bad neighborhoods sites. Found some site that they were banned.

Those these items are all fixed now and just waiting fro re-entry I assume?

[Webnauts]

The client pages did not have all over unique titles, description and keywords meta tags. And the description and keywords tags were not relevant to the pages content.

His title tags were not marked-up properly. He had something like <title=......></title>

Site was linking to some bad neighborhoods sites. Found some site that they were banned.

Those these items are all fixed now and just waiting fro re-entry I assume?

Thanks God the site was not banned. The rankings are slowly recovering, but Google recently messed up, since almost all supplemental pages were gone, and suddenly appeared again.

So I uploaded a few days ago the old pages which appeared in the index as supplemental, and I did the following:

1. I added to those old pages the noindex meta tag.
2. I excluded the indexing of those pages in the robots.txt
3. I submitted again the sitemap with the new site pages again.

I have already done the 301 redirects when we launched the site for all old pages, but without any success. And those redirects are obviously still there.

But now I am sure they will disappear when the supplemental googlebot will come again. I am aware it can take some weeks.

I advised the client that he must consider assigning us links building to get things go faster and improve rankings, but at the moment they do not have the budget for that.

Therefore, I advised to submit the site to web directories, but no more than 40 per month.

Jaan, any further options I might have missed?

[incrediblehelp]

Not sure if you want to go back and forth from old to new to old pages. Pick one version, 301 redirect the old to the new (optional) and delete the old ones. Let those changes sink in for a while (maybe even a few months).

You need to get some solid feedback from Google on if your changes are good and correct. Time will tell.

Also your right even a few authoritative links can help get this domains kicked started.

[Webnauts]

I would like to add here, that the main targeted keyphrases are ranking:

north cyprus hotel Google #36 - Yahoo #2 and #14 - MSN #1

northern cyprus hotel Google #41 - Yahoo #2 and #4 - MSN #4 and #5

hotel north cyprus Google #30 - Yahoo #1 and #20 - MSN #5

cyprus hotel Google #89 - Yahoo #9 and #20 - MSN #9

Some days ago, the second keyword was #29. So I assume that the penalty is no more active.

[Webnauts]

Not sure if you want to go back and forth from old to new to old pages. Pick one version, 301 redirect the old to the new (optional) and delete the old ones. Let those changes sink in for a while (maybe even a few months).

Haha!!! That is what I did at the first beginning, but then everything screwed up!!!!

Got it now?

[incrediblehelp]

Well sort of hard for me to know without "getting my hands dirty".