Hey everyone, I think I need some advice. A few months ago I opened a new site and was very quickly listed as 4th by google for my keywords. The site has occasionally fluctuated, sometimes listing a little higher or a little lower but it always seemed to settle on fourth. When I checked yesterday though, I was gone completely from the 1st page! Now I am sitting as the top spot on the 2nd page and am getting 0 traffic. All of he pages above me are old pages that I have seen before with old content. What happened? What can I do to get back up?
see i don't know the reason but i experience same thing before. when your site is brand new it listed quickly and got ranked (i call is temperory rank) then after few months it drop and ten bost as normal i don;t know u agree with my theory it same happen to me ... now my site is fine in SEPRs
You haven not done anything, and thats the problem. Just keep on optimizing your site for those keywords and you will get back to page one if not even higher.
That really sucks. I have had similar problems, like some of my sites never even being listed for instance.
How can you go higher than page 1? How long has the site been on the second page? It might be a fluctuation still. Did anything major happen to your site, like you list some important backlinks, you replaced content, etc?
That's for all your feed back, I have an update to the situation: In order to try and generate some more backlinks I submitted a ton of my pages to social bookmarking sites. Now I am back on the front page but instead of it being my landing page it's a content page and I am around the 8th or 9th spot on the list. As far as your questions go, I hadn't done anything special at all to my site. no important links were removed. or anything like, it seems like a weird google algorithm thing to me. Things are better I guess but still...
Dont panic fella, its the way it goes you can be top one min and drop off overnight, even more so when your site is brand new. just keep working on your site and asuming your doing the right things it will soon be back up there.
right on, I was even worried fo a while that I had done something wrong and google was pissed! (I live in fear of accidentally violating the adsense TOS haha).