Hello, I removed my blog once again on Tuesday 1/6/09 because I think somehow, Google doesn't like it. My site was hacked (I think from the Wordpress blog) and dropped from Google's rankings on Dec. 2, 2008. I removed the blog and all database files. On Dec. 9, 2008, my rankings bounced back to where they used to be. I put the blog back on Dec. 16, 2008 (I only had about 10 entries and re-entered them one by one) and immediately, my rankings dropped and have not returned. Here are some of my theories. Do any of them hold water? Theory #1: It's my blog and I have no idea why. Theory #2: If you search in Google for my business name, my site is in the #1 and #2 spot, however the #2 spot, which is the blog, is NOT indented. Does Google think it's not the same domain and is this the problem? Theory #3: I set up 301 redirects in my .htaccess file because of search results that look like this www. mywebsite.com/page.php?p=2672026. Some hacker created these page.php files and the evil code is gone, but is this still a strike against me? Theory #4: My domain name appears in 11,700 sites as a result of being hacked. They link to those page.php pages on my website. I've been told that links from lousy neighborhoods won't hurt me, but do they? Theory #5: In Google Webmaster Central, it showed that my site had 26 Not Found URL's, 208 duplicate title tags, and 412 duplicate meta tags. I'm working on fixing this, but is this such a bad problem that I'd be penalized for it? Theory #6: I did not have a robots.txt file nor a sitemaps.xml file, but I put them on the server yesterday. Theory #7: This is not my theory, but other people's theory. They just think this is a result of rankings fluctuations, I need better SEO, more content, and more links. I need all of it, but I don't believe this is why my site disappeared in the rankings. I don't think it's Google trying to figure out where my site belongs because I targeted very long-tail keyword phrases and held rankings for these phrases for 16 months. Thanks for any advice.
It is all about SERP. WEbmaster are constantly adding some back link to their site and you must not be suprise if your ranking changes.