Hey all, I will be brief. I established a site approximately 8 months ago. Since the beginning I have been actively maintaining an aggressive seo campaign. I was really ambitious to hit the #10 with this one. I invested in alot time, efforts and resource on different white hat methods and the results were really satifying. 3 months ago my site was showin on 3rd page for "myspace layouts" on google and was receiving a very good amount of organic visits. There was a great progress. Then all of a sudden it disappeared and started going back and forward the serps. At one time it was on #930 and the next day it shows on #35 again. The changes went so dynamic that the site was changing positions and disappearing like crazy. Showing on one datacenter and disappearing from the other. It still does this currently. Could it be possible that the term "myspace layouts" has been sandboxed and this made changes which affected new sites. Cuz since the beginning, my site was not showing any traces of sandobox. It popped in the serps right away...ofcourse with alot of efforts. In addition I remember that 7-8 months ago "myspace layouts" was showing 5 million results and now it shows 28 million. Traffic went down 5x since this happened. I am asking this, because I am continuing to pour into this website, without matter that it is showing this strange activity. I am getting a little worried that I am doing this in vain and that the problem could be somewhere else. E.g. some kind of filter to be applied to it...or even some kind of penalty. site url is quick-layouts.com Opinions and suggestions are really appreciated. Thanks, Nik
Since you don't rank for your domain name, "quick-layouts", you seem to be filtered/SERP penalized. I've got two sites with the same problem for 50 or so days now. It could be because of the unrelated links under Sponsors.
I lost a site in G recently. I had thousands of indexed pages, and fairly steady, if low traffic. The site still has PR, but the name is also missing in the SERPs. It sucks. I've sunk a lot of money into article writing and software enhancements. I guess I will eat it and move on. I'm not going to throw my time into a losing endeavor.
I am aware of this method for checking and I have been checking the site a thousand times. So far it always showed for "quick-layouts". In fact it just did. Can you pls give me the link or more info about the datacenter where you saw that? Thanks
Hmm sorry to hear that. I spent x,xxx for this crap......If it doesnt get out of the box I will personally kill google.
Identify what the cause is (those links I mentioned would be a likely suspect), fix your site, send a reinclusion request (probably won't be read but anyway heh) and hope it fixes itself. Not fixed itself for me yet but I've talked to a lot of people who've had their sites back to normal within all from 1 week to 3-4 months.
Thanks, but I added those links fairly recently.....like much later than the strange stuff started to happen. Anyways, thanks for the help