Hey guys, As most of you have seen or heard or read, "google dance" is happening and has really effected my site. I ranked on the first page, top 2-3 results for very competitive keywords and one week ago, july 10th, my website took a huge hit and now ALL of my pages on this website basically got put back 4-5 pages for EVERY keyword I ranked for or any internal page that ranked for a specific keyword. Though I am not 100% sure why the penalty was put to my site, I do know that I got lazy and a few of the pages I just copied content and slapped it on a page (I was just doing this for the readers purpose, no seo intent involved) .. besides that, that is the only thing I know that I really did to deserve this from google. However, I since have re-written all of the content for those pages that I just slapped content onto (about 3 pages) .. but now my question is with Google Webmaster Tools The bot hasnt crawled my website since July 7th and now is July 17th ... is there anyway to increase this to make it happen faster .. 10 days is alot (I am assuming at least) for any site that gets alot of traffic to not get crawled very fast. Thanks for any advice any of you can give me!
If you totally rewrite your content, specially change <title> tag, Google will recalculate and reevaluation your site.
it's natural way to be slap back in the search engines, especially if the key terms are competitive and you just recently SEO yoursite. some sites too got very little to few visits per month. to increase bot activity I suggest a blog to your domain or an update like a press release or news in your site
It is happening every now and then... your competitors might have fired you from top position... no need to blame google for this..do the hard work.
Guys, Thanks for the responses! As I have been working on this night and day to get my rankings back .. I came across this.. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...Business+-+Best+Work+From+Home+Opportunities" You can see, they use the same title as my site does "Home Based Business - Best Work From Home Opportunities" and also the same description as my site does?!??? I dont have a clue how this got there?? But you can see that google has labeled this as "This site may harm your computer." Does anyone have any insight as to what is going on here? Silveraden, I know what your hinting at .. but listen ALL of my pages, highly competitive or ones with 120k SERPS all dropped 4-5 pages or more .. this is a penalty, not a lack of work .. please do not come at me like this. Also, with this easywebcreator you can see tehre are over 290 results?!?!?!? I have never seen or heard of this site before?????? Guys, take a look at this http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/s...ED_about_Work_From_Home_Based_Business#149527 And look at the source code .. Home Based Business - Best Work From Home OpportunitiesOnly the Best Home Based Business Opportunities. Insight on the work from home opportunity of a lifetime and how you can become apart of one of the best Both my title and description are hidden in INVIS tags?? What can I do about this .. this HAS to be why I am penalized. Again, here is another one looking at the source code! http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=32617445 Guys what do I do here .. I have been attacked by someone because NONE of this is even close to my work. Is the next step to change my title tag and description so it isnt all over the place? Ok my last sample .. http://br.video.yahoo.com/watch/1325508/4590759 Again, I dont know whats going on .. these are all different people on these websites, and different opportunities (I think) .. but all have spammed their source code with my information??? What to do .. this is interesting .. but crazy because it is killing me!
Infosmith I have taken your advice! In the process of rewriting all of the content now and already changed up the title and description .. hopefully this works! Maybe someone can share with me some more insight!