Hi, My website was on the first or second page for most of my keywords and now it is on 7th - 8th pages. It's just happened overnight. My site is still indexed and I do not participate in any prohibited link schemes. Is there a major update or something? Anybody having the same problem?
you need to wait about a week before you panic to see if they return by themselves. Often times they do if you have not changed anything.
Google constantly updates their results. Unfortunately, it looks like it was bad for you this time around. Definitely continue to always build up more backlinks and add more content - this will help you to maintain a higher ranking.
All members will not agree, But there is some thing problem in Data centers Results, One of my website is not coming in any page listing when i checked for particular keyword, and in the evening it will be at 1st or 2nd page. It's very much confusing what is happening...
You have probably been wiped out in the update/bug called "Dewey". If you were ranking well, i wouldn't go making any big changes just continue as normal and see what happens.
There is no need to worry about things like this, a few days ago I was ranked 10th for a competitive search term I had been at that position for about six weeks but right now I'm not ranked at all for the same search term, I think this is normal because I just started targeting this search term about 3 months ago.
I have experienced this bug! I was ranking #1 for my keyphrase (with a new site) My site has disappeared COMPLETELY from rankings. Webmaster Tools says it's listed but it isn't! Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Fingers crossed!
If this is not a bug, just a new algorithm then it is a problem. We have to struggle again to achieve good rankings.
I'm pretty sure it's a bug. My site isn't ranking for a keyphrase it's optimized for, when the rankings are full of sites which don't even have that keyphrase in the title etc.
A few days ago after ranking position 3-5 in Google for 6 keywords, top spots for my horse site, has dropped way down to page 3, sometimes page 4. The only change I made was to the meta tags, have reverted back to the older version and pray my site gets back to original position which I have held for over 5 months. I'm building quality back links, and more content on a daily basis Fingers crossed it's just a bad bug Cheers Samantha
Excellent news, my site has reappeared back at the #1 spot! I wish you all the best of luck and I hope all of your sites recover.