Hi, My google ranking drops from (5-10) to more than 950 on very important keywords. It started suddenly two weeks ago, first I tought that it was a bug and that it will be OK a couple of days later... I'm still waiting FYI: - I didn't change anything on my site (robots.txt, .htaccess, design...), and i'm not using any bad SEO methods. - It's a classified ads website, so I have at least 10 pages added /day - The site is 5 months old, and it was doing well on google, I was planning to reach top 3 search results by June 2007 So what should I do? - Wait another two weeks - Contact Google - ...? Thank u for your help (the site is in french www marocbb com )
Similar situation here, I don't have much advice yet. I would try plagiarism checkers, SEO validators (make sure Google doesn't think you have hidden text, etc etc). However, my site returned nothing when I checked for those problems, so hopefully someone here knows what to do.
I would try not to worry about it for a couple more weeks. Just go about your business as normal (if you can). I have had a few sites experience similar drops in the past few months only to reappear where they left off after a while.
Similar situation, although one of my sites is generic and does't rely on Google to much, but there has been a drop in visitors from Google.
It sounds like you've been sent to the sand box. This happens occasionally. Pagerank update is estimated to occur on the 15th of this month, so I would wait until atleast then before contacting Google. Google typically sandboxes sites if they grow quickly (and sometimes they do it for no reason at all) Sandboxing usually last a few weeks but can last months.
This always happens before an update. From what I have found, the guys who gain huge jumps in the SERPS before an update get hit hard after the update is over. The guys who fall way off, come back way stronger AFTER the update is done. This has happened to my sites time and time again, I'm actually happy when my sites take a dump before a G update.
It could be anything I have been in the top spots, only to check and see I have dropped a lot, then in 2 days I am right back where I was. Give it a few days. Keep building links, adding content, etc.
I've had similar problems with my site dropping from 5-10 to about 800. Not sure why it happens either, but I generally find that if I write an article or two and submit it to Ezine Articles and the various other article directories, then my rankings return pretty quickly. The trouble is that if you have high rankings and a lot of backlinks, you can't rest on your laurels, and have to continue building links to maintain your rankings. My theory is that if your link-building suddenly stops or slows down significantly, then Google will drop you down the rankings, although if it seems to happening to many other people as well it could just be a random thing, or Google's bots playing around.
i had an similar problem with you neatly 3 months ago . i had changed nothink on my site like you . i have lost 10k visitors in one day. What have done ? * I have checked my backlinks. There were no backlink loose. * I have continue to update my site like a normal day . My site has come back after 1 month
If that's true, I think that pretty much contradicts "do no evil". Most of the people here - and in those forums - spend more time listening to users than working on SEO. Honestly, the first week my site was up (like, 6 months ago) I worked non-stop on SEO. Then I just tweaked my site when I saw how people used it. And now Google decides to screw me over when I have NO IDEA what they're penalizing for. It's like punishing a dog 4 hours after they disobey you.
What are the keywords your after with? I'll check on how much is the competition of your keywords. Maybe your host is slowing you down. Just recently someone hacked our websites and our rankings dropped. We have just to wait for few more days to see what will happen.
Hi guys. Newbie here (my very first posting, as a matter of fact...) I've had six of my websites penalized (not banned, they're still in the index) the last couple of days. Each website had 5-15 pages, each of them among the top-five in the SERP. Shocking and sad, of course. But I try to learn as much as I can from it. I can't understand why all sites were moved dramatically down the SERP simultaneously: Different IP addresses, different servers, but the same WHOIS information. No black hat techniques whatsoever. W3C verified code. Not too many inlinks. No backlinks. I can't do much but wait a month or two to see what happens. If I'm not on top in -- let's say three months' time -- I will physically shut down my web hotel, register new domains (preferably used domain names) under different WHOIS information and re-launch the sites and see what happens. SEO is about waiting. I'm used to it.
Thanks for your reply! I really appreciated it. Four of the sites were a month old, and heavily interlinked within the same domain. My mistake: I would be better off using a site map instead of links at the bottom of one page to all the other pages. Two of the sites were online for two weeks, with fantastic results. No interlinking. If you care to comment on these sites, here are the URLs: http://www.dekk.biz and http://www.billige-dekk.com.