Google Slapped?

[higginb3]

I've been working on a blog for about a year.... It was actually a year old a few days ago.... gradually posted content, etc. It was a very tight niche. I was making aprox. 150 to 250 a month on it..... I was very proud of it... woke up the other day to find out that Google had stopped sending traffic. The site wasn't banned... most of the blogs pages are indexed... I didn't do anything shady or blackhat.... just lost my ranking for all lthe keywords that I once ranked for... Yes, lost ALL the keywords that I once ranked for. Has anyone experienced this, is there any hope for this blog? I am so glad that I collected email addresses... I have collected about 95 (after unsubscribes)... which send some traffic.. but not nearly as many. I made good money considering I only averaged 40 uniques a day to this blog... but it is a very tight niche and it is something that I had been interested in... so I made a blog out of it.... it was actually based on personal experiences... If I visit semrush.com it shows the keywords I once ranked for.... I guess their databases haven't been updated once. So frustrating.

[Groovystar]

Are you ranking at all? That is, are you anywhere in google's index at all? What about yahoo & bing?

So sorry to hear about this, I know what it is like.

[Bondtana]

I have been "slapped" by google. I did something dumb though lol. I fixed it, contacted them and a few weeks later they reinstated me. Since then I have been on the straight and narrow and google has been treating me well... FOR NOW!

[terryd]

It's all part of the recent algorythm change that Google recently initiated. Check out "mayday update" and you will find more information on it.

[Groovystar]

Ever since late May and early June my site ranks have gone up up up. Not that I expect it to last. But what is weird is I am a major n00b at SEO and didn't employ many techniques outside of advertising on forums that allow it, trading links with similar sites {have done that for years} creating some videos, and other pretty simple stuff that has been mentioned as good for promotion, on this and digital point.

I would think something else is going on here though if Higgin's sites dropped so far off the radar they can't barely be found. I just thought of something..Have you checked your backlinks? Maybe a few of them wither dropped your link or went down. That can affect rank of even an older site.