Keyword sandbox effect

[DarrenC]

Okay, I've never believed in the sandbox theories, but I'm wondering if there is such a thing after what I have seen on my site.

I have designed a new page about 4 weeks ago - a property guide page for Florida. SEO KW = Florida villas, it was ranking in the top 20 now all of a sudden it has taken a nose dive to #105

Florida Villas (http://www.holiday-rentals.uk.com/florida-villas.html )

I was initially thinking that I have over optimised the page.

Darren :)

[nutsaboutgoogle]

Well,

After Saturday my traffic went down by 85%, travel related too.

A lot of travel sites were hit BIG after this new update.

I'm trying to find a reason but until now, nothing makes any sense for me...

[DarrenC]

Nuts, traffic has stayed even, thankfully, but this KW rankings have dropped big time!

[Scoreboard]

I wouldn't put it past Google to occasionally drop Florida-like filters on competitive keywords so that people are finding more relevant results in Adwords than organically.

[DarrenC]

Scoreboard - that's two anti-Google posts in one night! :D

[quadcity]

>I'm trying to find a reason but until now, nothing makes any sense for me...
From what I've read in different forums, Google seems to have devalued internal links some.

[Scoreboard]

Scoreboard - that's two anti-Google posts in one night! :D

Yah, I was thinking that as I was posting. I better back away from the keyboard before I wake up tomorrow and all my clients have lost their PageRank. :)

I heart Google.

[nutsaboutgoogle]

>I'm trying to find a reason but until now, nothing makes any sense for me...
From what I've read in different forums, Google seems to have devalued internal links some.
Could you please post the forums, I'd like to read more about it.

Thanks!