Backlinks from Flippa?

[hyderkhan]

Just wanted to rant....

I just set up a Flippa auction for a website that was ranked #3 out of 6.5 million searches for a particular key phrase. It was sitting there just fine until I created the auction last night.

This morning, I checked the site in Google and now it has dropped to page 10.

When do type in "www.sitename.com" into Google, I see that the Flippa auction links are showing as back links.

Did Flippa mess up my rank?

(I did a View Source on the page, and the links are all nofollow.)

The sad part is that I was using the fact that it was ranked #3 as a selling point within the auction. Is that a generally a good idea or not? Is it a successful strategy to tout the fact that the site is ranked highly in, in your auction description?

Now even if I get to work on adding more quality back links to the site, I don't know if the site will recover its rankings before the auction expires (3 days).