Dropped in the SERPS - Need some help!

Hello guys,

Title says it all really, I am stumpped to why I have dropped in the SERPS in Google as I have been on first page around 3 to 4 place for many months now for the keyword "Free iPod" but suddenly my site has dropped out of no where!

I wasnt getting tones of traffic to my blog, roughly 70 to 100 a day but its been like that for a year or so and it's kinder been a site that I have no paid much attention too.

It is not idle though, I do post to it and I always update the front page every few weeks or so to make sure Google see's that I do update the site.

The template you see on there at the moment was not there a few minutes ago, to explain this, a week ago I tried a new template, though since yesterday I had 12 visits and today I have only so far had 2 I am heading back to old theme.

I wonder if it was the theme thats caused the problems...

Site in question is in my signature, it's under "Free iPod"

If any one has any ideas on what I can check to see what might be causing the drop that would really be great!

Thanks

Gary

 

Hello,
Have your website less of 1 year? If yes, it is very normal for newbi sites, also check out the backlinks to your site, did you see any update ? Are you liking to iligal websites?

My 2 cents
Jakomo

 

Ok,

1. When you loaded the new template you could have altered your page title, meta keywords, or something along those lines.

2. If the lease on your domain name is about to expire Google could have possibly noticed it and lowered your site as it may think your site is a spamming, or scamming site.

3. You might of had duplicate content that when Google updated it could have deleted. This is very common for sites to go from first to about 100th because of Google deleting duplicate content.

Thanks,
Nick

 

Yeah it's older then a year, actually NBordeau it could be close to expiring, I will check on this.

Could be possible that meta dtata changed but All in one seo plugin should take care of all this.

Will check duplicate content, I have another blog which uses RSS feeds from other sites to feed news for my blog and have never had this issue.

 

No problem these are just some basics, just check for changes that might alter the search engines...