Hi all! Working under a project for the last year and faced a problem right now. This one is for the first time, for me, that’s why would really appreciate any advice\help from specialists who probably had something like that. For some certain reasons can not tell you the domain. So what’s it about. A week ago, on 21[SUP]st[/SUP] of Aug my site instantly lost his positions for most of the keywords it was in top. Among most top and supplementary keywords my site was taking within 1 and 3 position before that day and then instantly got between 40th and 70[SUP]th[/SUP] position, for each keyword (40th, then 51st, then again 43rd, then 67th and back to 41st after each search in google). Till now my positions are remaining between this range, 40-70 for ALL keywords. It doesn’t through me above 40[SUP]th[/SUP] position, at the same time it did not get me lower than 70[SUP]th[/SUP] position. I want to understand what could be the reason all this happened to my site. Below are some facts that I think could probably influent, however I would like to hear your opinion. 1 - The second day morning, I got a news that site was ddos attacked. Till the evening we bought a protection from ddos-attacks. We are still ddosed till now, however the protection is keeping our site alive. 2 - About 2 months ago I had to move my site to another hosting (VPS). Everything seemed to be ok for the beginning, but I noticed that we regularly had to contact the tech support of this new host. At least once a week site could be off for 30min or an hour. So I have several reasons why my site lost positions: 1 - ddos-attack 2 - hoster has some issues and probably this has some influence on google’s opinion about my site and my positions (but I don’t know how it can influent…) 3 - old code of the site, that should be changed already. We are planning to move to a new cms but it can take at least a month. 4 - Malicious scripts on the site (however the programmer checked everything already and did not find anything; moreover we’re subscribed for mcafee secure who also did not notice anything) 5 - Probably we got into google’s filter. But I was looking everywhere and did not find any reason google can filter the site in such a way, between 40-70 possitions. Would really appreciate if someone of you who faced something like this could share his experience with me. What could be the reason and when must I be returned back to my normal positions?
Sounds like a penguin update issue. Where are you backlinks coming from? are they relevant to the content? are they high quality? Make sure you refine your link building techniques to answer "Yes" to all of those questions. Also make sure your content it relevant and 100% unique. Penguin update has slammed a lot of sites -- mainly for backlinking.
I think that Google will not be easy to change the position of a website on their engine. That may be a problem on your website, maybe blackhat SEO.