Very disappointed and confused about a ranking drop? Please advise.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Lawpre, Aug 14, 2013.

  1. #1
    I developed a bloger blog that was moving quickly up the rankings for a specific keyword. I was doing some research and followed the instructions on this site and edited my Cutom Robot.txt and Cutom Robot tags. This morning I woke up to a rankings drop of around a page and noticed that 63 of my URLS have been blocked from being crawled?

    I am new to this and am unaware of what is going on? Should I go back and disable custom robots.txt and custom robot header tags?

    I would appreciate any and all advice.
     
    Lawpre, Aug 14, 2013 IP
  2. Lalamaple

    Lalamaple Active Member

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    It might be your content.

    If google sees something fishy (especially on their own site), they might start deindexing your contents.

    Other than that, it might be doing a google dance and rankings will fluxuate.

    Keep calm and optimize :)
     
    Lalamaple, Aug 15, 2013 IP
  3. flegmatic

    flegmatic Well-Known Member

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    I think that you blocked your your pages yourself with Custom Robots.Txt
    If you are using blogger, you don't need this.

    Custom robots.txt is a way for you to instruct the search engine that you don’t want it to crawl certain pages of your blog.
     
    flegmatic, Aug 15, 2013 IP
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    Focl Notable Member

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    Check your last changes in robots.txt, maybe you did something to block them.
     
    Focl, Aug 15, 2013 IP