Exact same thing happend to my site. Sounds like a penalty. Some of the things you can get penalyzed for is duplicate content, over optimization, link buying/selling, etc. Have you done any aggressive link building in the last few months? Another question: Do you rank for your domain name? Send me the url and I will take a look.
It is happening to me on regular basis. One of my sites was out of any rankings for 10 months, came back on the beginning of this month, and after 17 days disappeared yesterday again. Its impossibl to count on google for long term these days
same here. My 2.5 years old site was out of any rankings for 6 months, than come back in November and after a month again out of rankings.
Dude if your google traffic took a dive, something triggered one of Google's MANY filters (duplicate content, spam, hidden text, etc, etc) you will have to do a thorough search. No one will do it for you because they can't. Just do some serious research. I know it's very frustrating but that's Google for you. There isn't much transparency when it comes to anything relative to Google's Algo. Here is an official Google video that will help you submit, your reconsideration request. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843
Google hides the vast majority of backlinks from the SERP's. Yahoo site explorer is generally acknowledged as the best way to check your backlinks because they seem to show everything and update daily. Cheers Tim
i had the same problem buddy on my forums.. traffic suddenly dropped and money dropped since i'm not able to recover.. its been 3 months already..
I presume you know the keywords you were ranking for, right ? If not check your logs. Then go out and start a web 2.0 promotion, targetting the popular free web 2.0 sites (squidoo, hubpages, wetpaint, tumble, mixx, propeller,wordpress,digg,etc). That should kickstart things again. Don't forget to use some video because that ranks really well, tubemogul is a great (free) tool to upload video to many websites quickly. Cheers Tim
Same here mate... google traffic gone on some of my sites too... It's already 2 months now.... I loose my adsense earning and affiliate sales
As i already said, my site is a warez type of site. Are they going to reconsider? b'coz of warez thing.
That's bad.. but there's one thing I don't understand.. You're having this problem for two months, and when you determined this problem, you've been waiting for about two months to open a thread? That's a long time ago, it had to be 2008!
yeah i know, i din't know about this forum Yea hope so, so should i apply for a reconsideration? As i'm affraid they'll ban me b'coz of warez thing, if i apply.