From 3rd place to nowhere

Discussion in 'Google' started by ricdes, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi guys!

    I've been doing some SEO on one of my subdomains.

    Until today I was doing pretty good. Ranking at place 3 for a 1million competition Keyword. I started at 30th place, then started fighting myself to the top 3 spots.

    Since 11pm last night I have no more sites ranking on that keyword and logically I am not getting any further google traffic.

    I was building links around 1-2 Links a day and mostly doing it by submitting my site to social bookmarking services.

    My TLD is now 1.5 years old and has over 16k inbound links (natural links by releasing themes and some plugins for WP) and has a nice Google trust.

    BTW: I started an Adwords Campaign to drive more traffic to that subdomain (but using another landingpage). May that have something to do with this?

    the thing that sucks most is that today is a special xmas day where my affiliate network pays me more than the double per lead...

    What do you guys think? Did I get sandboxed? What can I do to get back to the top 3?
     
    ricdes, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  2. amitfan

    amitfan Active Member

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    #2
    Wait for 24 hours it should come back. This has happened to me on my site where it went from page #1 to nowhere and then finally popped back again
     
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  3. ricdes

    ricdes Peon

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    #3
    Damn, this had to happen today :/
     
    ricdes, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  4. NeutralizeR

    NeutralizeR Peon

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    #4
    Happened to me on November 26th, came back to normal on December 9th and today it's happened again.
    I'm very curious if i need to wait 2 weeks again.
     
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  5. ricdes

    ricdes Peon

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    I hope it wont hit us for 2 another weeks because the site was doing very good.

    One of the sites in my sig disappeared something like 10 weeks ago and is still there.
     
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    #6
    you should wait about 1 day or two, it should come back
     
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  7. NeutralizeR

    NeutralizeR Peon

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    #7
    How would you feel if your daily unique hits went from 50k to 10k? :) It feels *very* bad. Waiting patiently once again...
     
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  8. spaggiari

    spaggiari Banned

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    #8
    What happend to google serps? !!!
    My backlinks gone from 200k to 100k :(
    But with the same Traffic (a little decrease)
     
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  9. CGlines

    CGlines Peon

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    #9
    seems like google is up to something today judging by some of the posts im reading about PR changing drastically and SERPs changing drastically...
     
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    #10
    Did you use any blackhat methods?
     
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  11. simplyg123

    simplyg123 Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Happens to me all the time, ive also seen about 20 threads here reporting the same thing, i believe it is normal, mine always comes back. Could be some kind of update glitch, who knows with google. They could be doing it just to screw with your head.
     
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  12. Computer_Guy

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    #12
    My site disappeared today also. I was number 5 for my keywords up until last night, and now my site has disappeared completely from the results page. I have never bought any paid links and do not do any kind of black hat, just good SEO design for my page, and I submit expert articles to lots of websites since I have a masters degree in computer science and 20 years experience in the field.

    I am a little worried, but it sounds like from what I am reading here that google has some kind of glitch going on. Hopefully it is short-lived.
     
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  13. ricdes

    ricdes Peon

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    #13
    To answer the questions: Not a single bit of Blackhat. Only Dir submissions, a posting about it in my blog and some social bookmarking. And on-site optimization :)

    and I kept it very easy and did never get over 1 link a day.

    lets hope google gets to normal the next days :/
     
    ricdes, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  14. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    #14
    Google dance : should recover in 2 weeks ... or so
     
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  15. simplyg123

    simplyg123 Well-Known Member

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    #15
    I propose it will be back my tomorrow
     
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  16. WilsonA

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    #16
    it would come back I also had a similar problem, but the site came back
    after 3days I think so its normal
     
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  17. Computer_Guy

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    #17
    Hmmm... I do have some cut-throat competitors who engage in questionable business practices. I wonder if those buggers did something to get me out of the results.:D
     
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  18. simplyg123

    simplyg123 Well-Known Member

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    #18
    seriously it will be back, this is very common
     
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  19. ricdes

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    I really hope so. Otherwise I'll be losing a lot of money :(
     
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    #20
    Had this happen a few times, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It is pretty scarey when you drop off Google like that, but Google is fickle. This is why most of us have day jobs, just in case Google hates us one day.
     
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