I have a PR 3 site and has some popular keywords ranked in G's 1st or 2nd page in the last few months. Two days ago traffic started to increase. But starting last night, these keywords was ranking nowhere (at least beyond 10 pages). I did "site:domainname.com" and no changes in terms of pages indexed. Does anyone know what caused the SERP dropping?
Google never keep your site always on top... Your competetors also doing SEO..... I think your site come up within 3 weeks
have you made some changes to the website? Like changing theme, description or it could happen even if your webhost was down for a lot of hours.
Did you use sitewide 'inlinks' in your SEO strategy or internally in linking your sites pages. Google recently seems to have discounted sitewides as part of their efforts to cut out paid links. This may affect your serp position for the keywords used in the sitewides.
Funny you should say that...on my main site I added the ability to randomize the footer links and sidebar links so that there are effectively no longer any sitewides. It also helps with deep internal linking. My site is a real estate MLS so I have a lot of pages. I figure by rotating the footer, with links to the pages at the 'bottom of the tree' and reducing the number of outgoing links at the top, it should also aid in bumping PR. PR isn't that important...i got hit with the selling links penalty pushing the site from a PR6 to a 3, but the sitewide issue affecting serp position can be much more damaging.
I do have sitewide links in the footer of each page. But they are "Internal Links" pointing to the pages in my subdomain. My objective is to get SE to index more pages. One thing that I did prior to this incident was to hire "Blog commenters" to add comments. I ordered "50 comments on 50 sites" package. Not sure if 50 additional links would trigger G's filter. Any clue on what happened? Google update?
I just read here at DP that Google dance is going on and this may steady once the updates are complete.So dont worry just concrete on content and link building
i have got hit by this too.....have been the first for certain keyword...now i drop to 4th...other keyword also drop few pages...but indexing is the same pr is the same
seems the google dance is almost constant now, its hardly ever stable any more, theyre churning the serp almost constantly and testing new results every weekend. with regards to inbound sitewides there's no "penalty" we can see, but they may well be reducing you back to just getting the same benefit as from one good link. we have sitewides from a 15k local site as part of an ongoing test. they havent hurt us, but they're not helping like you might 15k links might either
One of my websites has gone from receiving over 15k uniques per day from google,to 3k per day and it seems to be getting worse every day. I've had this website for ever 2 years now and has been steadily increasing in traffic every month, but this has set me back about 6months now, anyone know why this could happen? I have many inbound links from lots of different sites and low outbound links with nofollow on most. I don't buy or sell links. It's pretty annoying :/
Rankings change all the time, its not surprising. You just have to keep on your game and build links ALL of the time, even if you are #1.
my site builds on average 30-50 links per day, it's definitely not anything to do with competition or anything like that... it looks like I've been penalized for something.
No its not like you got a penalty .. similar thing happened with me my website lost ranks for many keywords ... wait for sometime and everything will be fine. keep on building good links and verify if ur site matches Google Guidelines.
My site was invisible to the US for 2 days. Cause : Network problems in Netherlands. And I've dropped from 10th to 51st position. It's going steady now, with no downtime. So, when will the SERP rank be restored?
Google changes algorithm often. Find 50 new blgs to leave comments on using your Keyword Phrase anchor text link and this should give you a quick boost.