I've got a situation but dont know how to go about it. The following is for the UK SERPs. I have a couple of blogs/websites, I use shared hosting but never interlink the blogs as far too risky. On my shared hosting is about 50-60 websites altogether. 4 days ago they my blogs/websites traffic took a decline, all on the same day, all at the same time. They wasn't deleted from the SERPs, they just simply lost ranking. Google visited my site at around the time these sites went down, but I think this could be a translation bot: 216-239-45-4.google.com > from Mountain View, florida Googlebot is still regularly spidering my blogs on a daily basis, only now they do not rank for their keyword in the domain, as before they all used to be #1 - they rank further down something like page 4 Now I dont see how this can be a penalty if my blogs are still getting regularly spidered. I know Google are changing things currently but how come all of my websites on the same shared hosting have suddenly been devalued, all at the same time? Should I change hosting, can Google put a small penalty on a certain IP address, and could the IP address have been flagged? Stuck for ideas, please help. It has definatly got something to do with the IP address as I have other hosting from US and my blogs/websites on there did not get touched or penalised, so it could be something to do with that? Is it possible? Should I change hosting and hope my rankings come back? Btw, no I do not participate in black hat SEO Thanks TD
Well, link:www.mysite.co.uk is showing just 5 backlinks, but I generally check Yahoo for my backlinks. Maybe Google decided my links weren't strong enough? I cannot understand the drop though, I should at least rank 1st for my domain name regardless of link strength, which is a unique name, instead I come down on the 5th page if I type it without the .co.uk. However, if I type it in with the .co.uk then it shows at #1 I generally use Yahoo to check my backlinks and have 642 listed there, although it should really be over 1000 backlinks I have built up slowly over the last year. Typing "mysite.co.uk" into Google returns me 921 pages in the SERPs The one thing I dont understand is that all my blogs are showing a very similar pattern, that for a lot of terms I was on first page for are now down to 4th/5th page, and all traffic to the blogs has gone down to 25%
Bump Still having problems, anyone heard of a so-called -30 penalty and what it means, also how to remove it? I have not done excessive linking to my blogs, nor is there any duplicate content, the only thing I can think of is affiliate links, but even then it is once per page, so surely that isnt the case? I have cleared up anything I think suss and asked for reinclusion. Confused.com TD
can you give an example url of one of your sites? see if anyone here can spot anything? Maybe you could point your forum sig file here at one that has dropped links, as at the moment, your forum sig file links all points to 404 pages.