My site has just received a significant google drop today. Many keywords that ranked in the top have gone down to being unreachable. I have no idea how this happened. My PR also dropped today from Pr3-pr2. Any idea how this might have happened?
Maybe your site's too young to be ranking so high? I have an acne site that's doing the same thing right now. Keep building links at a steady pace, adding content and just stick with it. Give it a month tops, and you'll most likely be back up there for those terms.
No my site is 3 years old and has been up to PR5. This happened just recently. I think perhaps I have a few outgoing links that are irrelevant, so that might be the reason.
lance - a weird thought, but it happened to me so maybe the same occurred in your case. When I search for a term that my site used to rank high for - I can't even find my site. When I click search once again, it's there! I don't know why it's happening... it started today for the first time and I just noticed this out of luck. Might be worth mentioning that I had many pages get de-indexed today as well... maybe those two are related somehow. Let me know
If you are doing paid reviews or link exchanges I suggest you remove them as they could severely affect your rankings. One of my site was affected so bad that my traffic dropped from 300-400 uniques a day to 2-3 uniques a day
The link exchanges I'm doing are all relevent so I dont see how they could affect anything. Bleh this seriously sucks.