Oh yes, today I fell 1-2 positions for two quite competitive keywords. I was number 1 for them since many weeks.
My rankings for many keywords terms (11-20) too were dropped from the SERPs on the 21st of June have now bounced back to be top 10! I'm also praying there aren't just dancing around like some flirtous girl showing you what you can't have... , Dam Google is normally such a tease...
My love affair with Google is doomed. We used to complement each other beautifully, me being top 5 in results, 30% visitors coming in from Google... Now, he's gone all emo and kick me out of the top 100 until the point that I couldn't find any of my pages in the results... Why Google why? Why do you hate me so much? What have I done wrong?
Unfortunately it's not just you mate, it's affected hundreds of site......it's really pissing me off.
Thats the problem with relying on google. P00F one algo change and you can go from top 10 to page 12 in a nanosecond and there isn't much you can do about since google isn't very transparent about thier ranking algos. All attempts to bring them to court over dropped serps have failed. This can be from a MULTITUDE of problems. Duplicate content? Bad recip links? PR update? Bad neighborhoods? KW density? etc... Established sites seem to be immune to these changes.
Has anyone emailed them yet? I was waiting for Monday, thinking someone would come into the office, and see the mess, and get it fixed. It's still broken as far as I'm concerned. You would think with this many people effected, they would have tried to fix it by now.
You can email google until the moon turns blue, but they won't respond if it has anything to do with SERPS and or their algo. They won't comment.