How I Recovered My Tech Blog From Google Penalty

This is how I recovered my Tech blog from Google penalty and grew my blog again.

In yesterday’s post, I shared how publishing duplicate content affected my blog, and the traffic went from 170k page views a month to 20k page views a month. In this post, I will share what exactly I did to recover my blog from the Google penalty.

As soon as I came to know that my blog was going down due to duplicate content, the first decision I took was to delete all those articles. It was almost 70-75% of my published content. It was basically restarting my blog again. Some of you may think this is the only option you had. But what I believe many bloggers make this mistake. Even after knowing their content have some issue, they never take any action and leave their blog to die. It is best to delete content that is not working out in your favor. You would still have a better chance to get the thing back on track. In my case, I took this bold decision and deleted most of my articles.

At the same time, the Sacred Games web series on Netflix was very popular. One of its famous dialogues was “Balidaan Dena Hoga (Have to Sacrifice).” I also did the Balidaan of my duplicate content and got rid of them. But deleting the content was not the only thing that could have helped me. The next challenge was filling the gap and publishing a lot of content. I did exactly the same. I already have the same niche idea with zero competition. This time I started publishing dozens of unique comparisons every day. Within two months or so, almost the same number of articles and unique this time, were published on my Blog. Google took some months to analyze our content again, and the site started ranking well. With our original content, visitors engaged more with it, and everything went back on track.

So, this was how I recovered my Tech blog from Google penalty and grew it again. If your blog is not doing well, you should immediately identify the problem and eliminate it. If it is poor content, you should focus on producing even more content after deleting it. Things will become better.

When things were not going well on the Blogging side, I started freelancing to keep my finances in check. I worked both on marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork and also with direct clients. I grew my two Fiverr profiles to Level-One seller within two months of creating them. In upcoming posts, I would like to share my freelancing journey. Things like why I started freelancing and how I grew as a freelancer. What do you guys think should I do it?

Don’t worry; I will continue to share my Blogging journey, as this is what I am doing right now and will do in the coming years. But as I am documenting my journey and I started freelancing in the same sequence of events, I guess It is better to also touch upon it.

That’s it for this post. Thank you for giving your valuable time and reading it till here.