WTF Happened

Discussion in 'SEO' started by dogma72, Jul 1, 2013.

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    Hello,

    I posted back in February I believe about getting some bad advice on anchor texts. I was told to go through my link profile and switch as many links as I could from my brand name to keyword rich titles. Which I did and felt no penalty at all. In fact I saw a slight rise in rankings.
    Also, I had forums and a blog on my site that Google webmaster tools said was causing duplicate content. I replaced the blog and forums to fix the duplicate content issue. Still no issues.
    I did this around middle or end of march with blog and forums. I looked at google webmaster tools today and noticed something. I went from 122,000 indexed pages on March 31st to 745 today. Wow. Is this bad or just way it goes ?
    Also, on May 22nd, I lost between 10-20 spots on all my key keywords. So I guess the anchor texts deal came back to get me, or so I think. I went through my links last week and it turns out all the articles,directories and social networking site I had paid Submit Edge to submit to were offline. So I had a loss of links which was about 10% of my link profile so it wasn't a big hit but still loss of links.

    I have changed all my links back to my brand name and tried to switch as many keyword anchors as I could back to correct way. Is all this I am mentioning a reason for my loss in rankings ? I know the answer to that, I think my real question is can I fix this and how can I fix this ? Should I put the old forums back up ? Help.

    I would think if I was falling into a real penalty it wouldn't be a loss of 10-20 spots. I am wondering if the loss of links and devaluing of some of my links caused the drop ? Help.
     
    dogma72, Jul 1, 2013 IP