When I was first getting started with marketing a small site that I won, I hired an SEO "expert" to get me soem backlinks. After he spammed a bunch of blogs and forums, my ranking for the main keyword of my domain went way down. I was at the #1 spot for it before this guy did his "backlinks" and now it's not in the top 50. How can I tell why google down-ranked it so much? Is it worth fixing or shoudl I just move to a different domain?
If your site is a new site, you shouldn't bring too much back links to it in a short time. And your site has possibly been listed in Google sand box. You should wait for some time to decide what to do next.
Hi There To tell if your site is blacklisted type: site:yourdomain into Google, if your banned nothing will come up, if you're not your site will appear. This doesn't tell you if you been downgraded etc. Ste
Thanks for the replies. It does show up in google, just no where near the front page like it used to be. I can't even find it unless I type in the domain including the .com... So yea it looks like it was sandboxed..... any way to tell how long that might last?
Try sending a re-consideration request to google using webmaster tools. We got sandboxed because if duplicate content (we owned both sites but one got dropped). After changing it a submitting a request we were back in the big G within 24 hours.
If your position was number1 in google then why did you pay an seo expert to spam blogs and forums, also if your site is now n pg5 the chances are it has been hit with a penalty
It sounds like this maybe a penalty. Or it may be that the freshness effect has worn off. Sometimes Google promotes a new site to give it a chance, but then drops it based on user behavior. But more likely than not you are experiencing the normal fluctuation of sites in the Google search results. This is especially true of new sites. As you get enough quality backlinks, your site will stabilize. Don't rush any reconsideration requests, that's bad advice at this stage. Reconsideration is a serious matter, you will have to name names (your SEO company) and tell them specifically what you have done that is against Google's TOS (terms of service). Don't rush things. Wait 3-4 weeks to see if your rankings improve. Keep building and promoting your content, adding pages, adding a few high quality links (forget the blog commenting / forum sigs / article submission blitz -- handful of authoritative links will serve you much better). I hope this helps!
If your domain is not over one year old and have some new backlinks pointing into it, then it is a common. Most of website that not stabled will have a fluctuate when new links pointing into it, a filter applied anyway. Please stick with current domain and be more patient You are on the right track of real world seo. lol
Sounds like a penalty.. You need to determine why this penalty imposed at first. Then try to remove them and request a reconsideration request from Google Webmaster Tools.
type site:mysite.com (or whatever extension you have) into the Google search bar, if your site appears then it's not blacklisted... S
You can also use SEOQuake (Firefox and/or Chrome extension) and see if the numbers of indexed pages drops. If yes, it means you get penalized or blacklisted.
It looks like google penalty - sandbox. So u just have to wait and continue good and professional link building!