I recently started seo for my website and was seeing good ranking for a lot of my keywords , when i suddenly realized one of my page with a keyword was moved back , since there is always ups and downs in serp ranking , i was ranking 11th for the keyword and suddenly everything change , i thought it was normal , but today i made a check and found that the website url was pushed way back and not even showing in top 1000 serp , am i right is the content the issue or backlinks have hurt my website , as this is shocking for me , i think i have to rework on the complete website , altogether. please let me know what should be done in this case. regards
You have been hit with what a lot of us are being hit with - check webmaster tools to see if there are any messages in there for your site? I got this message for 6 of my sites It is all part of Googles Panda or farmer update see http://www.businessinsider.com/panda-slapped--googles-panda-update-changed-the-playing-field-2011-3
You have been slap by Google, my friend. The farmer update major changes are: - Sites must have original content - Backlinks should be build in a natural way (build them consistently and few at a time) Bottom line: Quality Not Quantity. It is better to have only 5 pages in your site with original content than 100 with republished content. It is better to add, lets say, 20 links per week on a consistently way, that buying a 1.000 links package once every 3 months.
Don't be sad, this new google strategy make internet cleaner 'cause you do not have to read duplicate content.
I started a new website and it was listed in first page before i did not started to post articles on it, and when i posted 3 articles and submitted the sitemap, my site is not even listed in google for that keyword.
okay, right now i just checked and my site is back to first page with one rank up.. its on 8th position now
nothing is for certain in Google, if you take a fall it could be for any number of reasons, and equally if you reappear you may, or may not stay there, insecurity rules
Don't copy content, it's really that simple. Write your own content, update often and you're good to go.
Wow so many low post count geniuses here! It's not duplicate content issue for everyone mine is totally unique! Mine happens to be from sponsoring wordpress themes
You say in your title about duplicate content, but have not mentioned the same in the opening post, if it is duplicate content then that could be a reason but if it is not just go through whatever you have done in your SEO and try to analyse and learn where you did mistakes, that is the only way to find what went wrong.
but i am making a guess that it was coz due to the content , still i am not sure , still i have changed the content and looking forward to see better ranking , let you know soon as the backlinks are right and no problems with that .
Google penalizes the crap out of you for duplicate content. As you've seen espoused here in this thread and as you no doubt will continue to see anywhere you strike upon comprehensive SEO, quality over quantity is the safer bet and generally more advantageous.
Well, is this site a autoblog? loanworkout (dot) ORG It's been on the first page of google for "loan modification" forever. It has 50,000+ backlinks. Will this be penalized?, or will the backlinks keep it up there?