Comments on: Google Slap — How to recover from a Google Slap?

By: Tim Scott

Tim Scott — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:36:55 +0000

Even though this article is from 2008, alot of your points still hold true. But I’d like to comment on some recent updates from the last slap.

1.) Landing pages are out for good, they have been shutting down anyone witha bridge or landing page.

2.) Opening up a new account doesn’t work unless your on a new computr, with a new mac and ip address. New name and credit card for the account. And even then, it’s ify.

I think the best thing to do now is just, migrate towards Bing and Yahoo for now, untill this whole Google slap smackdown blows over, just IMO.

By: Homestead Users

Homestead Users — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:22:43 +0000

Google slapped my site so hard that I get no search traffic from Google at all. I’m really bummed by this. My site was full of original content but on every page I had an opt in option to get special survey results.

I was wondering if the time when I posted in Craigslist, attaching a link to my site, if that caused the slap. You know Craigslist management they hate spam.

I wonder if I was reported by Craigslist admin as spam.

I should have not been slapped, my site was constantly being updated with new stuff.

I had no Adwords campaigns either.

By: Jon Clark

Jon Clark — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:57:37 +0000

I have a client who just contacted me with an account which had gotten ‘super’ google-slapped. I’ll be interested in incorporating some of this advise to bring it back into shape!

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:04:41 +0000

The Google Slap can happen for many reasons only known to Google.

I don’t believe that there is a one size fits all type fix for recovering from a Google Slap.(as stated in this post).

I found that sometimes fixing the landing page to include your target keywords works…

Sometimes all I had to do was add links to the page…

And… one time I had to create a brand new Adwords account and setup a new website.

You should test your approach, start with the simple solutions first like making your landing page’s content specific to the keywords your bidding on then move to the more complex solutions if you have to.

–Jeremiah

By: dana

dana — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:59:16 +0000

Thanks for the info.

What about articles. In case I have original articles on my website that got slap. Should I add new articles?

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By: john kent

john kent — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:19:26 +0000

i think change landing page and keyword is good for recover from a Google Slap

By: dev

dev — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:32:11 +0000

Deleting and restarting campaigns actually does not work. Getting a new account on the other hand does.

You might also want to try to bid real high for like 10–15 impressions to get your ctr up anlong with creating a relevant landing page (including many of your keywords) and targeted/appealing adtext.

By: Vishen

Vishen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:00:25 +0000

Hi Steve

We’ve removed navigation links and not seen any drop so it’s a lot more complex than just that. But please send me a link to your landing page and let me see if I can help.

By: Steve Gill

Steve Gill — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:01:14 +0000

I have been running a landing page for years but wanted to improve my conversion rate. I read somewhere on Mindvalley Labs that I should remove navigation links to prevent visitors from leaving the “sales funnel” (or words to that effect). So I removed the nav links and the result was I got Google Slapped and my keywords have all increased to $13 per click! Now my business is dead in the water and I’m screwed. I hope you suggestions work because my revenue has dropped 75% and it’s killing me.