Major SERP drop in Google

Hello,

My website: http://goo.gl/hIfm dropped on a few keywords last days and at some keywords i totally disappeared.

- Haven't changed any URL (rewrite, etc).
- Amount of incoming backlinks is still growing.
- No new outgoing links last weeks.
(I just have no idea how it can drop like this without any good reason.)

Maybe i am in the Google Sandbox?

 

Your website is just 6 months old! The rise in keyword rank is normal to a newly built website, if it has relevant content to the Google searches. This is because, Google always try to put fresh result in search results page. Your website may be lucky to have Google love with this point!

Drop or disappear in keyword ranks happens due to several reasons. Few of them are:
1)Your keyword score drop from your anchor text back links
2)Relevance and Popularity of your competitors are higher than yours.

Whatever be the reason, be persistent in your SEO efforts and you will certain see the benefits!

All the Best!

 

Don't worry! Probably a Google algo adjustment.

I have a 2 years old website with the same problem. Now is growing back to normal position

 

it is a google algo issue as I saw older (and penalised) sites getting up in the serps while some of mine are just out.
This happened today, yesterday was OK.
Still weird though

 

Welcome to the game of SEO! Consistency...

 

I think its just a temporary issue. There might be some changes in Google's algprithm. I would think that keep doing what you have been doing with this site. Do not try extravagant things like getting to many links in a short amount of time or things like that. Some activity on your site might also help. So a little paid traffic might be good. These are my suggestions.

 

as you said, may be you are in google sand box;

 

I don't know how Google Sandbox works but i saw someone talking about it (who had the same problem.).

I don't think the fact that my website is only 6 months old has anything to do with this major drop. My pages have a much better On-page SEO then those and if i only lost 2 / 3 places in the SERP then i shouldn't make this topic like this because that can always happen.

 

Google is updating some stuff around the beginning of the yr to its algo from what I have been hearing. Just a heads up. Keep up your link building and give it a bit of time. A number of folks have seen similar things happen that have posted elsewhere on the forum.

 

You said your backlinks was increasing while the ranking was dropped. May I ask you some questions?

1. What kind of links you built recently? There are many type of link such as sitewide / homepage / in-content / social network / social bookmark / blog post / directory submission / reciprocal link / etc.

2. Did you vary the anchor text? It is not good to have identical anchor text. If you have built links with only a few anchor texts then it would be flagged or devalued.

3. How consistency you built those links?

4. How relevancy the links you built?

 

Hm a little off topic, but using what did you made that report (which you got on the screenshot)

 

Can you please tell me what keyword program do you use?

 

This may be the reason of Google update. Keep working on with building quality back links. Soon you will get your rankings back.

 

whatever the program, it is against Google ToS

 

1. I did 2 sitewide link exchanges with higher PR's and some related forum / blog backlinks.
2. After i saw some good results on some of my keywords i switched to new anchor texts so it should look quite natural for Search Engines.
3. I try to post on forums / blogs daily and sometimes i have a 2-way exchange (like 2 / 3 last month).
4. I only accept game related websites for a link exchange or from websites with a higher PR which i guess have a higher value then most others.

@theentry & Balau
http://www.cleverstat.com/en/google-monitor-query.htm

@bigitaboss
Why is it against Google's ToS? And will this also effect my websites? (Using it already for over a year and never had a drop like this + it didn't happen on all of my websites.)

 

Gotta keep up with the SEO. Keep building decent backlinks, add new content, do proper keyword research, etc.

 

We just experienced similar issues as yours. We ranked on 40 to 50+ top keywords on page 1 for months if not over a year. Suddenly they disappeared completely or pushed to page 2 or 3. We made updates to the site a couple of weeks ago and experienced slight down-time during the heavy Black Friday shopping. Anything think this is an algorithm tweak? Seems to have occurred or notice drop in Google traffic since midnight on December 8.

 

Good to hear i am not they only guy with this problem.

 

I think what he meant is the program you use is against Google's TOS. It shouldn't affect your website directly. Most of those keywords ranking program fetch Google's search result pages by automatic queries. When you use it number of times in a short period, your computer will get banned from sending queries to Google for a period of time (not sure how long, could be half an hour or longer). And since the program you used cannot receive any information from Google's page, it shows your keywords disappeared.

You can confirm this by going to "www.google.com" directly. You may receive a message that says your computer is sending automatic queries to Google when you perform any searches. To confirm your Google ranking, just do a normal organic search

 

I had that ones, when i checked like +100 keywords from 3 websites. Don't think it has something to do with the SERP but we will see.