Over the past month or so I have noticed some strange behavior from Google. This is what I have been seeing; #1. Google's frequency of crawl's has slowed down. Usually when I have posted some new content I use the various pinging tools out there to get the attention of the Big "G", but I have noticed that the crawl's are not as fast and definitely not as frequent as in the past. #2. Backlinks - I have seen a huge drop in backlinks and when creating new backlinks, I don't see Google picking them up as quickly as before. #3. SERP's - some of my keywords have dropped off a lot. Not sure if this is because the backlinks dropped off. So, I have been scratching my head trying to figure this out - thinking maybe I got hit with a penalty or something. My site's PR actually went up from a 4 to a 5 last week. Can anyone make any sense out of this ?
A question to you, do you have a real quality content on your site ? have you optimized your onsite seo ? If your website have copy pasted on duplicate content, google will punish. Quality Content is a God.