I was link building for a term pretty aggressively and noticed that it has slipped quite a bit in one week in the SERPS. What is the best thing to do? Thanks.
Do you have a link to the site? It could be because Google is resorting the SERPS. From what I have read if you are too aggressive with your SEO you will move 30 positions lower than you were or worse case scenario you will be removed. I have heard conflicting advice about solutions to scenarios like this: 1. Keep at the same rate you were going at (with link building) as Google is looking at trends of link building. I.e 100 links one week, 0 for the next 4 weeks = bad. 2. Stop and let things sort themselves out. The 1st option makes more sense to me but I haven't been in the situation to test either out. Maybe someone else in the forum could be more helpful.
What exactly were you doing? Come clean. Search engines usually only penalize for something black-hat like buying links, link schemes, blog comment spamming, forum spamming, or the like. If you share with us exactly what you did, we can help you to figure out why your rankings have slipped.
More information is definitely required; specifically what does "pretty aggressively" actually mean and how far have you slipped in SERPS?
now "new" is your domain, how many backlinks did you have before you started the backlink building, how many did you make a day ? we need more info. and don't forget the google dance!!
I spend a couple hours a day building links because everyone says that is the best way to do it. Now I hear you can over do it? I do nit make enough money to buy links. But I want to have a lot of links because everyone else has lots. It can get pretty confusing. But to trust someone to take care of all my SEO issues would cost too much, I have 3 sites I am working on and think I will have 2 more by summer. These are sites that pay my bills,and keep a few people unemployed, so I have to get it right for cheap. I keep trying and reading as much as I can. Any help is greatly appreciated. Any ideas on these two sites. www.faitshandyman.com www.exoticmoments2you.com
Have consistency in link building. Have variety of linkes. have links from different pr directories, blogs , sites. etc.
I would say to w8 and see how it goes. If it continues to drop, try to understand why- use webmasters/ explorer to analyze your backlinks. Posting too many at a time always lets this happen.
Just try to use a lot of different keywords and you will be fine soon. Keep up the work and don't stop or try to remove any backlinks.
nicolasthun is right, if the problem persists, you have to add links with different anchor texts, or couple good ones (combining these 2 methods works like a charm)
Savantcreative, you still haven't told us exactly what you did. If you want us to be helpful you're going to need to get more explicit.
It could be anything...could be something you changed on your home page, or your link building was too aggressive or Google simple reevaluated the SERPS or it could be a temporary glitch..that happens to me from time to time
If you built - say - 100/1000 backlinks all neatly labelled "my keyword", then this won't look like natural link building especially if backlinks are all df and/or all high pr. I'm not a seo expert, but I would say to build some backlinks with different anchor text - even put a few "my site" and urls in there and probably also a few nofollow. When I made a mistake with my first major linkbuilding project, my site slipped to page 10 for about 3 months and then went back to page 1.
different anchor, different platform, different niche, different date, the more different the better, doesnt matter if you do it manually or automatically, just keep doing it. if youre still in the index you'll just need to be patient, it will all comes back, stronger