Hi there,
I'm new here and also to this side of the internet. However, I bought a domain a few months back and started creating content.
A little while later I noticed a pure spam manual penalty. There was no history on the way back machine, but even my homepage still says indexing requested so I guessed it was affecting the site before I added anything? Although it can be fetched as google.
I've been asking around to get answers and someone found a huge amount of urls linked to the site in 2017 through Majestic.
50 days ago I submitted a reconsideration request and waited. Yesterday google replied but declined to lift the penalty. No one has been able to explain why and i'm at a loss.
There is no copied content, nothing is thin or spammy (as per Matt Cutts' definition on the video), there is no cloaking and I wrote every word myself. About 90% of the pictures are mine except from the amazon affiliate pics and a couple from free media sites.
The site was scanned by Siteground and Sucuri and no malware whatsoever was found.
I have no idea (and it seems no one has) as to why the penalty was upheld. I would be very grateful if anyone here can offer any insight!
sleepingbagsolutions.com (I haven't posted enough to add links, sorry)
Regards
Matt
I'm new here and also to this side of the internet. However, I bought a domain a few months back and started creating content.
A little while later I noticed a pure spam manual penalty. There was no history on the way back machine, but even my homepage still says indexing requested so I guessed it was affecting the site before I added anything? Although it can be fetched as google.
I've been asking around to get answers and someone found a huge amount of urls linked to the site in 2017 through Majestic.
50 days ago I submitted a reconsideration request and waited. Yesterday google replied but declined to lift the penalty. No one has been able to explain why and i'm at a loss.
There is no copied content, nothing is thin or spammy (as per Matt Cutts' definition on the video), there is no cloaking and I wrote every word myself. About 90% of the pictures are mine except from the amazon affiliate pics and a couple from free media sites.
The site was scanned by Siteground and Sucuri and no malware whatsoever was found.
I have no idea (and it seems no one has) as to why the penalty was upheld. I would be very grateful if anyone here can offer any insight!
sleepingbagsolutions.com (I haven't posted enough to add links, sorry)
Regards
Matt