Site Dropping After Link Building

[MarkSherris]

My website seems to be acting very odd lately, haven't had it happen with any other site and I'm wondering whether anyone else has had similar experiences....

About a year ago If I put a review up that sat at no.7 (for example) and I hit it with a senuke blast it would pop up to no1 probably, but now if I do it (which I did a few days ago to try and bump it up) my sites ranking disappears for about a week before it comes back up...

It's good in the long run because I get a better ranking but initially I lose literally everything.... it's very annoying because there's product launches coming up which means I'll probably miss out on a few 100 to possibly over 1k worth of income before my site comes back up..

anyone else seeing this? from now on I think I'll sack the link building and just make sure my on-page stuff is all perfect..seems to work better for me without the drop in rank.

Just wondering whether anyone else has an similar experiences? I know the site will come back as it always does but it's annoying and initially worrying

[bay37]

Standard stuff - Google is re-evaluating your backlinks. If you were tracking your rankings hourly, you'd be suprised how often they really change (like literally every hour for new websites or websites with a lot of activity).

Also: you cannot compete in good niches with just on-page SEO.

[bay37]

Originally Posted by silpada

Make sure that your links are natural and relative to the subject of the site.

Doesn't really matter if they're natural and relative. Seriously - it doesn't. it helps to have relative links (sometimes), but irrelative links won't do anything bad.

[MarkSherris]

Yeah I realise that, my other website ranks for a very competitive keyword but this blog brings in automatic income, wheras the other one gets clients....

This one is long tail so backlinks aren'ts really that necessary, my content gets indexed almost instantly, just absolutely doing my head in now, I regret that web2.0 blast I did, should have just left it :@ now I'll have to wait a week or so for it to come back probably missing out on about 1k of income if not more :| lol

[jsfunstuff]

Google Dance wait some days he come back

[paulturner]

yes I'm finding this too. Never had the problem before. I am trying to drip feed links at the moment to one of my test sites and that seems to be helping, rather the the big SENUKE blasts I normally do.

[comp123]

Dripping links is more natural rather than getting them all in a 5 minute period isnt it?

[OrganicSeoGuru]

Dont underestimate the power of Google Caff, you really need to plan things out keyword by keyword, and don't underestimate the value of your sites framework for flowing rank and authority within.

[dadamson]

Stop the mass blasts.

Google isn't stupid, it can tell when you do things just for rank boosts rather than lots of people naturally sharing your link around.

Mix things up, create link from a wide variety of sources, contentrate on teir 2 backlinking. Stop blasting to your site, blast to your backlinks, this should help you.

Think of SEO as a constant walk towards a diverse backlink profile, it's not about numbers, it's about quality these days. Your site is probably only coming back because of the age factor, the blasts will not do anything bad in the long term but they won't help a heck of a lot either.

Cheers,
Dave

[ann1986]

what have worked before may not work for you right now. So stop the senuke blast and find another link building method.