Hi guys I have this website http://www.creteonthe.net about Crete till very recently my site was on the second page for Crete now its on 10 and sometimes even worse!!! grrggrg Why is that? what happened? thanks a lot!
If I search for Crete you are at page 5, spot 2 - 42th place for this keyword. This can happen, there are ups and downs in SE, maybe next week you will be on first site. Never give up.
You have most likely tripped a filter in google for duplicate content, and your title tags aren't helping either. Almost all of your title tags are the same, this is not good. Title tags are important and must be unique and match the content of the page. Rewrite your title tags and see what happens. You also have duplicate content on your site. I took a sample of text from your site and searched for the text in google and guess what...many sites have the same text. BTW I seriously doubt you have fallen in rankings due to others "out SEOing" you, if this were the case you would fall a few positions not drop from page 2 to page 10. You have obviously done something Google doesn't like, i.e. same title tags on all pages and a bunch of duplicate content.
Thanks for the useful comments I checked on copyscape and it’s true that some of my texts are used from a bunch of other websites! I will definitely change them. The same with the titles I will make them unique and to match with the content of the page. Any idea how long they should be? i.e. 3-4 words or a sentence? Thanks a lot and I will definitely not give up!!!