Ok I started a website up about 4 months ago and I had my older and high PR sites link into it to get it listed in google in just a few days. I then optimized my site for my main keyword. I got up on the first page of google for my keyword in about 1 -2 weeks. It only has 1.2 million searches. I added good links to my page and submitted my website to some directories, and wrote some articles and a few press releases all with back links to my website. My site was on the first page of google for a good 3+ months. I even had a inside page optimized for the same keyword that was on page 3 of google for the same amount of time. The other day I look to see if my site moved up or down and I notice that its no longer in google for my keyword phrase. I checked pages 1 - 50 and it was no where to be found. I then checked to see if my link was even in google and it is its just no longer ranked for my keyword. Its like it just dropped off the face of the earth. Why and how could this happen, and why so fast? Is there anything I could do? Any help would be great. Thanks! Chris
Try typing site:ww.yourdomain.com into Google. If your pages are still listed, you may have been sandboxed. If your pages aren't listed, you have been banned.
Seems the sandbox effect. Look at this thread for more info: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=320768
my site is http://www.profitwealthonline.com and I type in site:www.profitwealthonline.com into google and it showed 1 - 15 searches for it so all my pages are still in google. I just do not understand why it would be ranked so high for 3+ months then out of the blue it just gets sandboxed?
I found my site for my keyword finally. It is on page 62 out of 71. So it dropped from page 1 - 62 over night. yes I submitted a sitemap.xml to google
While I can't offer much explanation from a technical standpoint, I have experienced this same thing. Google is quite unpredictable. I was #4 for a keyword for quite a while and dropped back to page 3. And another keyword I was almost in the top 10, only to drop out completely. So really, the only thing you can do (in my opinion) is just keep building those links back and get back in the rankings.
Hmmm, it happens, you go from the top up to the lowest part of SERPs, but on-page optimization may help and the best factor for that is... your keyword.
Recently?? I'm asking if your site was already established and then you just submitted your sitemap.xml to Google recently?
I'd like to know too. Though it seems counterintuitive, I have seen pages drop in G's SERP's immediately after a sitemap was submitted. I figured it was just coincidence but who knows with G's mysterious black box of algos JJ
Continue building links...links.. links... Update your content often.... Doing a search for allinanchor:"keyword" is the best way to tell if you are sandboxed. My rule is if you have go through and search page by page looking for your URL and find it then you are not in the sandbox...
Google were kind of doing an update. There were other people who lost rankings for their keywords as well. It was set alright after a few days
When I first made my site I submited a sitemap to google about a week after making my site live on the net. I added good links to my site and even got 2 .edu links by posting on college job forums. So I thought I was in good shape. I did find my page for my keyword however its on like page 62 our of 72 pages total. My site was on page one for months. Someone the other day told me though if I was using my link in mass email makreting google wouldnt like that. And I think some of my members might have been using my domain name in mass email marketing campaigns. Would that hurt it? I also did as you said and searched allinanchor:"keyword" and found my link on page 20.