Help! Dancing too long

[Young Samurai]

I've a product review site which a month ago had nearly 20 page 1 rankings for various terms and was averaging about $10/day.

Suddenly every page fell to between positions 500 and 900 in Google and they have remained there for almost a month.

It did dance before, maybe 7 to 10 days and always came back stronger.

The fall does not seem to coincide with any specific backlinking activity.

Do I let it be or intervene?

Any recommendations welcome.

[hashbury]

I dont think there is really a great answer for this, but I personally would build a few higher pr links to the site and move on to something else. I would keep my eye on it and see if I could notice any changes. Chances are that since it dropped so low in the rankings it will come back.

[FinallyFree]

I am currently dealing with this issue also. I hate it really, but I think the best thing to do is keep improving your website and keep building backlinks.

[masterjani]

Mostly new sites are getting problems,I think it will come back sure.Hope for the best

[Marco Lee]

Well maybe that's google yoyo effect

but yes, finallyfree is good with, build more links

Originally Posted by FinallyFree

I am currently dealing with this issue also. I hate it really, but I think the best thing to do is keep improving your website and keep building backlinks.

[Young Samurai]

Thank you guys,

There already seems to be a consensus developing, namely,

keep doing what you are doing and maybe throw in a few high PR links.

[iAmNameLess]

Okay, here is the only thing that concerns me about your post. You don't think it has anything to do with backlinking, have you not done backlinks in a while?

If that is the case, were you building them regularly, and then just stopped?

[rvdp]

I have had EXACTLY the same happening to me, page 1 rankings steadily improving while dancing around, then suddenly a week ago, everything back to positions 500-600. I probably should have continued to backlink once I had those page 1 rankings. On the other hand, yahoo and bing keep showing improved rankings. I'm sure content wise i belong in a top spot, so very frustrating.

What can you tell me about your backlinking?

Originally Posted by Young Samurai

I've a product review site which a month ago had nearly 20 page 1 rankings for various terms and was averaging about $10/day.

Suddenly every page fell to between positions 500 and 900 in Google and they have remained there for almost a month.

It did dance before, maybe 7 to 10 days and always came back stronger.

The fall does not seem to coincide with any specific backlinking activity.

Do I let it be or intervene?

Any recommendations welcome.

[iAmNameLess]

Originally Posted by rvdp

I probably should have continued to backlink once I had those page 1 rankings.

That was your problem. Never stop building backlinks, even with a #1 ranked site.

[Young Samurai]

iAmNameLess,

Sorry if my op was ambiguous wrt backlinking.

What I mean is, I didn't stop or alter my backlinking when I reached page 1

and there doesn't appear to be any correlation between the drop in rankings and any specific backlinking I was doing. (I didn't throw 10K links at any page just prior to the fall.)

Hope that clarifies things.

and rvdp,

I always try to be consistent and vary the nature of the links and pr. There are profiles, social b/marks, blog comments, articles, etc. The site is about 5 months old with nearly 700 links (according to yahoo.) A handful of pr 1,2,3, and 4 (maybe 12-15 each) and just a couple of pr5.

[rvdp]

Originally Posted by iAmNameLess

That was your problem. Never stop building backlinks, even with a #1 ranked site.

do you think it will appear back right away at its original position after new backlink building?