We have put over 5 months efforts in SEO. For first three months we can see better ranking for mostly of our main keywords with all kind of linkbuilding stuffs, On-page SEO, For previous 2 months, we start to see our rank being slowly increasing and last months it got worse when mostly our keywords lost ranking in SER's. Do we get penalize from Google ? I check google penalize checklist and i see two things can cause problem: 1. on site modification make indexing and crawling being harder 2. Building backlinks quickly in short time and focus in only few key terms Let share your thought on this topic, we are appreciated your ideas
It is hard to say without a link to the website you are talking about. This shouldn't necessarily, affect your rank (although it is hard to say without knowing exactly what you have done), unless you made major changes to the website. It may have just make it harder to get new content index properly. Yes, this can affect your rank, especially if you have been spamming directories, blogs etc. I would say give it time, do some reasearch into the Google "Yo-Yo" effect, and have another look at your SEO in a week or so.
@ Vina, its very hard to judge and say what google is doing and will do.. just go and check it out whats your competitor has done on same key word. check their links and what they did on onpage. Try to find out the nature of links you got, No of reciprocal links can harm your site and never make any sought of linking pattern. After google has launched caffeine, there seems to huge changes happened in serp and ranking. Its time to focus on your onpage SEO more than of off-page.
Just concentrate on building links on related websites with low outgoing links and as high PR as possible. Also, I agree with spreading the links out overtime. Don't build them all at once, but spread it out over a longer period of time.
I had a similar experience. I rose from position 28 to position 10 very fast then I dropped to position 39 and now up to 9. Also my page indexing went through a similar up and down then up again process. I did a lot of reading and it seems that firstly, it is normal for your position to change for no apparent reason. Secondly, the recent re-rating of site PR may have had an effect on your sites ranking. Even if your PR didn't change the relative effect of other sites changing PR's would affect your position. Thirdly, your apparent ranking can depend on the geo-targeting of your IP address. Fourthly, I wonder if you were wearing your lucky underpants that day? Ahh the Google algorithm has as much mystery as Merlin's cauldron.
As far as Google is concerned, you will only get penalized if you did not abide by their terms of agreement. For those 2 given situations, most likely, the second one would really cause a problem on your side. Remember that in building links, only the quality ones count.
Dude, first and foremost, if ou have build links to a specific set of keywords, that is what is going to do it right there. If you rank for several keywords that are related to your sites main topic, that is going to scream relevance. Now, if you were Google, would you rank a site that ranked for one keyword, or several related keywords? Simple solution - Focus on a variety of other pages on your site, ranking them for a variety of related long tail phrases.
The second point may cause this problem. Because this faster traffic may cause crawler to recheck and then penalize your site. If you really did good work without unethical way then soon you will get good position. So, continuing doing your work. You will definitely get the results.
I suggest you to keep doing link-building..! Better try for some different approach too such as content optimization and submit under good bookmarking sites
Onsite modification can cause this. I also face this but its quite temporary I got the keyword ranking back.
Sometimes I don't even think the people at Goggle really understand what goes on inside the algorithm. Hence their very vague responses. @ frankzcl - is there really a sandbox? The worst part about sand is it gets into every nook and cranny. Maybe Twitter has a sandbox and that's why we were seeing their blue whale so much recently with the overcapacity message. @Kim14 - yes I think the quality of the backlinks is far more important than the relevance. I'd rather have 1 backlink from a PR7 site about mud-wrestling than 5 links from PR 0 sites in my niche. I'd also suggest to that backlinking should be done 'naturally'. That is to say - don't always aim for links that are DOFOLLOW or at least not NOFOLLOW. A real person wouldn't do this so when the googlebots see that ALL of your backlinks come from follow links then maybe the algorithm red flags your site or gives it some sort of demerits penalty or goes to the Search Engine watercooler and has a laugh about you to the Yahoo, Bing, and all the other bots in junior school. Not ALL of your links need to, or in fact should, come from relevant sites. Sure it's good to have links from relevant authority sites in your niche but again in the world of real people doing real things they will link to things that are sometimes outside of the niche of their own sites but are of interest to them. Food for thought. Number 1 rule - make it at least appear to be linked naturally.. ..I need to go now. It's my turn on the google see-saw.