The past 5 years have been a pleseant experience with Google and search engines. Google getting purposely "kind of" unpredictable from time to time, for their own CIA secrecy intentions. But good... 3 of my online biz dropped from top #1 and top 5 positions on Google SERPs from three of my money making information sites. The short story, all these sites have about 2,000 optimized articles combined, nicely structured keyword density both in titles, body text and author resource box on important article directories. - No more than 3 optimized articles submited per day in article services for major directory distribution - Every targeted keyword has been successfully placed on every article titles, body and author resource box - None of the sites are banned from Google SERPs, INDEX or have had page rank siginificant drop (I was expecting small PR drop) - High competition in every sub-niche - Problem: I had linkdash.com unconciously left in my early website start up (just to acquire fast keyword indexing) however, left such linkfarm in the three sites. I digged and surprisingly I still had such linkfarm and did removed those sites since the evident timeframe of 3-7 days passed to get my listings back to top positions. 3-7 days as that was usually took to have my rankings back in the past 4 heavy drops Google did in 2007 for few of my websites. What is interesting to note, are two things. Did Google dropped me for perceived highly targeted article marketing optimized lessons to have it define by some seo educated guys as (should I say= content spamming) or because of the link farm. Still in many of my friends mind, it isn't content spamming. My buddies answers: Your competitors probably reported you. Sorry for the long case study here, find quite a few SEO minds interesting enough to spend the time writing this. Hope to say "Viva Puerto Rico" in a few days...c'mon Google!
Here are just some additional point of views that might be interesting enough... Believing my sites and sub-pages are all indexed without hence, getting any of my outbound links that point to my sites deleted. I eliminated the possibility of being "penalized" beause of one linkdash.php directory still in a sub-page. So I had to 'technically' conclude by my own tested facts and experience situations in other marketers that this Google behavior could only be "Content Spamming" as I submitted articles from three major article directory services and purchased one way links continously with the same keyword(often every week and just adding another important word into the keyword to eliminate the 100% density in keyword being targeted every time) in sites seomoz.org believed where of high page strengh (5 or more). What I often did was article marketing, the cheap and basic solution to SE. The keywords being targeted where always added in article titles, body and resource box. So technically, I don't believe keyword spamming could be called in the eyes of Google as what I did often is what they what us to feed them, with food. Interesting, instructional and valuable 500-600 word content. I summarize this conclusions in 2 minutes in the phone, now look at this paragraphs seo jungle Wonder what few of you guys have to opinion about the specific situation, leaving emotion...it always adds to case studies... Opinions highly valuable...heck shouldn't everything around Google SEO be consider a tight opinion
Sure you did a nice seo work and i dont believe this is the reason google drop your results for the method you mention about.It must be something else.I have make some mistakes(like let say automate ping google to crawl my website and this single mistake had make my ite dissapear for months from google index,or some other time i had put an iframe wich block some text from the users will se could see it.That was not dissapear this site from the index of google but make his serps drop and after 2 months of fixing that still was ranked verylow...but now it rise.So you can understand that a minor change in your site or in a simple factor of algorythm can downrank or make your site rise in google serps.