A site was ranked between 8 to 11th place in a 6 mil results keyword. Since last week, googlebots payed a visit, and then i saw that i'm not ranked for this word AT ALL. I might add that a "site:" search with google shows the site and all of its pages. Another thing is that i see now that google shows around half a mil less results than last week. Can anyone put a light on this issue? How can i check it, write to google? i know that there is a penalty reaction procedure, but since the site is indexed thus its not banned... what is it?! p.s. no black hat seo was done
Google may be updating and changing, some people have been losing their SERP's as well, just give it some time.
emmm, how much time is "some time", do you think should i continue the SEOing or should i wait few more days or weeks?
It happens all the time. Rankings go up, down, sideways and disappear altogether sometimes. If you've done nothing evil, then there's nothing to worry about.
a live example, www.johnchow.com lost the "make money online" position, even you cannot find his site for search "john chow".
google is allways playing with the seo rules. you must have all types of backlinks to avoid this type of serp changes
We were 75 before. Dropped off and came back at 45 about 7 days later. Now two weeks after we are at 19...