My site has been up since september 08. In December I optimized the site with a certain anchor text and since around february we've been no.2 in the SERPs for that keyword with no movement or jumping around pages. In March we decided to optimize for a different keyword using anchor text again, initially we saw the site moving up the SERPs for that keyword, the best we did was page 8 - its a competitive keyword but only the first 3/4 pages have optimized for the term. We were moving up gradually but now and again we would disappear from the results completely, I went back as far as the last page and there was no sign of us. This week, even though we've been adding more links with this anchor text, we started to move back in the SERPs and were now on page 16 - wtf? Should we wait it out or are we being penalized for something? site is www dot konoha-village dot com 1st keyword is naruto forum 2nd is naruto
I am not hot with Naruto, however I am sure that it is a very compeitive keyword! Just checked with the adwords keyword tool and it gets 55,600,000 searches a month, thats 55 million! So you will need to do alot of work to get anywhere near the fron page for that! How many linkbacks with that anchor text have you got so far? Josh
It could be possible that you getting your links too fast. I dunno if that may happen, but i remember before my site got pushed back in ranking cause I got too many reciprocal links on my site. So, i ended up taking a few off and about 3 days later my ranking boosted dramatically. Anyone know if this could be the problem?