Read here about the #6 Penalty: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-removes-position-six-glitch-filter-penalty/ And...about a week ago this happened, can Anyone Explain? Ok I have a site just under 2 years old, then 2 more just over a year. Each domain is hosted on completely different servers (different companies) and each site was promoted vastly different with link backs etc. The site 2 years old used to be on the 1st page of Google Results, the other 2 were pages approx 5 in for the same term and the other page 3 in for a different term. NOW... the site 2 years old is down on page 9, and the other 2 sites (that had been showing for several months) are no where to be seen at all. All 3 sites still have pr and are cached... Also basically Every other Google Server in the World shows these sites in similar location to where they used to be except the USA ones... (My sites are English but even Canada/UK/Australia/New Zealand/Ireland/SOuth Africa which are all English Speaking) have like mentioned similar ranking as before. Any ideas why... Any one else experience this?
I've had this happen to some of my websites before. There are a hundred reasons why this happened. It could be because you traded links with websites that weren't related to your site. Sometimes I'll have a temporary top 10 position for a few weeks after I submit my website to Digg and one day my site will completely disappear.
I followed your link to read the #6 penalty, but did not find what is the definition of #5? Does it mean there is a penalty to put you in the 6th page?
wait for sometime, it happens to many people including me. my site, for few days, was on the top of many keywords search results, and then it dropped to the very last page of search results.
The same is happening to my websites, they are ranking much better in google.com that in google.es, my target market. My webs are hosted in USA, and I have thought this has been the reason for this misorientation. I have been adding some metatags to emphize the spanish orientation of my webs, but I am not having much success so far. I am starting to think there must be a more serious involved, maybe a wrong exchange link, who knows? In any case, somethins strange is going on with google over the past 4 weeks...