All the rankings dropped

Hi all. I have a website (about a year old) but I started working on building links (mainly article submission and link exchanges) about 4-5 months ago. And it once ranked quite well for some keywords.

But I found that all of them dropped to zero for these keywords in last time months. This happens to the main www website and all the other 7 subdomains.

Did anyone experience this before? Will this be a penalty?

I think I have never done something blackhat. So I am not sure if anything has happened .....

 

It could be late Google Sandbox. It happens to some websites

 

Have you sold any links?

 

If you sold or bought any links this could be the reason.

 

Is your site still being indexed? (Just do a simple site:yoursitehere.com and if no pages appear it's not being indexed)

 

yes it is still indexed. And I have sold one to two links.

But How can Google know I have sold links?????

I deliberately put some links to other website at the very beginning....

So there are always some outbound links....

 

I have same problem too, but i think that's sandbox effect.

 

I also suspect that but in fact I don't expect a site with about a year old will still be in the sand box. Though I only started the link building about 4 months ago.

May be it is also related to the PR update that other DP members said in another thread

 

It is a natural phenomenon in seo world, all you have to do is to double your task or even triple just to get back in the serps. And for your information the design and the color of the site really matters for the visitors, then I offer you a Free Downloadable Wordpress Themes you don't have to pay for anything just click on my sig and its all yours! Good Luck to you!

 

check your onsite seo. its hard to get a site deranked for building links (still possible) but onsite seo its very easy. like paid links (they might think your link exchanges are paid links).

 

Or maybe your targeted keywords are very competitive in that matter.. Just continue getting quality backlinks for your site.

 

Have you checked if the site is still indexed? Just optimize it and it will be fine

 

All you need is to continue building link....a quaility backlinks can help your SERP..

 

Thanks for all the replies. I think I will double check for the on site SEO first and that continue building backlinks to the site.

And luckily I don't rely on this website for earnings ....