Is My SEO Company BS'ing Me?

wordplay said:

If you have experience in SEO, please help me determine whether I should discontinue using my current SEO company.

My website dropped from #4 to around #15 after Penguin 2.

The SEO company claimed they had nothing to do with it .

But according to this graph, it would appear I lost around 100 backlinks in May (during Penguin 2):

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/prefix/give2kids.net%2Fdonate-car-nj.htm

They are the only SEO company that have been used on this website.

Thank you in advance for any light you can shed on this.

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enlytend said:

This isn't much to go by, but going from #4 to #15 probably isn't Penguin - Penguin is more like going from #4 to oblivion. How are your other keywords doing overall? Just that one page hit, or your site overall?

More likely that several of your linking sites were hit by the May updates.

Aside from that, my only comment is that your anchor text percentage is kind of high and that spike in new links around April would look suspicious to me, if I were a search engine.

Google's updates can shake things up, no matter how careful you are. Sometimes you aren't hit but other sites are more fortunate and gain a few places.

That's my $0.02.

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