Hi I am Thomas, I am running a article directory called Infocrystals.com, this site is in a initial stage, I saw many thread here in Digitalpoint about SEO, I learned a lot. According to the instruction I gave my Infocrystals article directory into several free directories available in the market and I suddenly found after two weeks my site was in the top position in Google.com for some of the keywords, but now after a month when I type the same keyword the same results are not showing. I couldn't find my site in the Google results. My question is why this has happened to Infocrystals, Why my site disappeared suddenly from Google results, what went wrong? I need to reinstate the position in Google, How to do it? Suggestions welcome!
Well that's not an easy to answer question without an exhaustive analysis of your site and it's competition. I'll try to give you an overall picture which does not pretend to be complete. 1. there are opinions that say, Google is recently placing damping factors on article directories. 2. New sites are supposed to have a positive "ranking bonus" for the first 30 days. After that period they often "disappear" for some months, not completely if you are not "sandboxed" but not ranking very well, specially for competitive keywords. 3. Google is still changing almost daily while intruducing the new "vertical search" application throughout the different datacenters which causes lots of hard to explain changes in the SERPs. If you have done your "homework" well and there are no features on your new site that could trigger a filter or a penalization (there are!), you should be patient and use the "waiting time" for link building. Don't try to get 1000 links within a week (too fast, could trigger a filter), just start to submit to directories on a "reasonable" pace. No recommendations on real numbers, but don't try massive submission with "fantastic" tools, the SE "know", a single person can't submit to thousands of directories in one day. Make sure to vary the anchor text and descriptions in your link submissions. Apart from that said above, I had a quick look at the source code of your main page: <title>Article writing, Post articles , submit free, get more exposure,get more business, article marketing unique infocrystals.</title> 121 char, to my opinion ok but better a bit shorter (60 - 65 char); you should not repeat keywords in you title! <meta name="keywords" contents="submit articles,write articles,post articles for free, browse articles,information articles,info articles."> "contents=" correct is content= / 6x articles (you should not repeat keywords in this tag) <meta name="description" contents=""> contents= again content= (empty) General opinion is and Google confirms, a description tag does not help for better ranking but you should write a max. 200 char description (empty spaces between words count) it helps to achieve a wider range of keywords your site will rank for! Hint: Don't use any words in your title and tags, that are not found on the page!