Rank Loss?

As of friday I had some high ranking in important keywords for my website. However, when I checked today the site is completely off most of those keywords. Anyone know what might have caused this?

 

The site is www.hitechmachinery.com. A few of the keywords are 'used system 3r', 'used cnc accessories', and 'hole drillers'. I'm also getting a substantial rank loss in 'agie machinery', 'mits consumables', 'mitsubishi edm', and 'current edm'.

I've just started out trying to get the site optimized and it seemed to be going rather well until today. Help??!

 

I do have some offsite links using those keywords, but they don't seem to be helping at the moment.

The site isn't new at all. It's been up for over 4 years now and has been decently ranked the entire time. Nothing big has been changed since last August when we uploaded a new layout. So it couldn't have been highly ranked due to that.

Thanks for the attempt though!

 

That might be the source of the problem. There used to be more links reported there.

We are listed at DMOZ, though that doesn't appear to be helping either.

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

Was your site new to the index within the last 60 days, or so?

 

It just happens sometimes. Sometimes a single day you are completely out of the index. 48 hours later you are back at the old place. I dont know why but it happend to me a couple of times and when you lose like 1000 places and havent done anything bad, then you are probably back soon.

 

What is an oblivion drop?

An oblivion drop is when a web page falls completely off of the SERPS (search engine result pages).

This is different from just falling in the SERPS. If your web page is the 866th result returned, it isn't oblivion dropped -- it just has problems!

Early in 2004, webmasters noticed that some web pages, for some search terms, would be oblivion dropped occasionally for random lengths of time. No one outside of Google seems to know the cause for this phenonenon.

An example would be if one day without notice this page fell from being the #12 Google result for the search term "oblivion drop" to not being returned at all in a Google search for "oblivion drop".

Most oblivion drops seem to last for a day, and are therefore not too serious. There have been reports of much longer, and therefore more serious, oblivion drops.

 

I'd never heard of an oblivion drop before. That does explain what might have happened to the page. Keywords I was ranked in the top 10 on inexplicably dropped off the ranks, but now they're back. Very weird.

Thanks for the info!

 

Google is paying around with the index in June alot. I would focus on continued quality offpage seo. I predict Google is working on some major algo changes.