Hi A little background on my site : It is 10 months old : PR 3 A while back I was ranking very well for a average keywords for my home page I was ranking well for Sports Handicapping Forum 1st page Sports Betting Forum 2nd to 3rd page Sports Gambling Forum 3rd to 4th page But I wanted to go after some more competitive keywords Like Football picks , Free football Picks and NFL Picks... i thought it might drive more traffic. I fell off completly in my old words and my new words I am nowhere to be found ...is this normal???? Also how do you know if you have beed banned or not and can anyone tell me I have been? My website is in signature..... Sports betting Forum Thanks for any help.
as i know if you want to change your keywords you need to rebuild your backlinks as well. (except your old anchor text also contain the new keywords you are focusing) this might be the case.
you changed the elements that were allowing you to rank for Sports Betting Forum and Sports Gambling forum, when you decided to go after these new terms.......that is why your rankings fell
I think your website fell in rankings is because google is now processing its databases and you website will return in couple of weeks to about the same position for those keywords. I presume you didn't modify anchor text in old backlinks, when going after new keywords
Thanks for your help... I haven't changed my anchor text... just recreating more links with the new keywords I am going after. Also how do you know if your site had been banned? I haven't done anything wrong besides redesign my site. Thanks for the help again
can't tell you for sure, coz i didn't have any of my websites banned - check in webmaster tools, google should notify you somehow in console. also do some search for unique text on your website. if search returns your website it means its still in their database