Lost All Google Rankings In 1 Day?

[icosane]

Oh yea, also I have another site with the exact same theme and many of the same ads that hasn't dropped in rankings. I think I might cry if this one drops off the front page of google as its been a project of mine for almost a year now.

[westportclan]

Originally Posted by kissofdeath

SO all you did was back linking, you didn't change the site at all?

ho far did you drop back?

All my inner pages dropped out of the first 100 pages of Google completely, after all being in the top 3 pages originally. My homepage remained in the SERPS, but at page 10 for my number 1 keyword, and nowhere for the others. I experimented changing the text of a few of my inner pages to see if it made any difference. I then worked on building more links, with a greater range of anchor text than i had previously been using. It seemed like I was making no progress at all until yesterday almost all the rankings came back, some of them in better positions than previously. A few of my inner pages are still missing, but i am hoping they will return imminently now. It's impossible to say what it was that made the difference, if anything at all.

[dahlgren_m]

Originally Posted by cbright

@dahlgren_m

I didn't read everyones responses but I wanted to respond because I ran into this same issue and it took me a month to figure out why 4 sites got hit with it all on the same day. It turned out that I had google ad placements too close to other ad networks and affiliate links so they manually penalized the sites.. after figuring it out I fixed the issue and submitted the sites for reconsideration and got all of them screaming right back into the SERPs where they were.
So I'm not sure if you are running adsense or not but ya might want to consider that if you are

I'm not using any adsense on my sites, it's amazon niche sites that focus primarily on amazon products.

There are plenty of ways to get penalized via Google, like there are plenty of ways to recover. The best thing however is, in many cases if Google punish your site and you are lucky enough to know what caused it, you can fix that and get your site back, just like you did.

The worst thing you can do is nothing and hope for it to return.

[DaCheese]

Originally Posted by dahlgren_m

Update Per 08.12.2011

My site is back after 10 days of terror. I actually gave up on IM for a couple of minutes there

Here is what i did after the drop:

1. Changed My Theme

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but since my previous theme had 5-10 affiliate links on my homepage I figured it'l be worth a shot to change it.

2. Re-Ordered my 30-homepage backlinks

This was initially my biggest concern when my site dropped, but I still think it's odd because my rankings before the drop where pretty good.

3. Added 2 5-700 words article without affiliate links.

I'm not sure if the site will stay, but my main keyword jumped from 5 to 2 on first page and I take that as a good sign.

What now?

If anyone have had similar experience, please share your opinion on the best practice after a "drop/penalty/sandbox" like this.

Thats a pretty good comeback after being penalized.. But i do kinda think its more like a google dance where your rankings get better than before.

Could you tell me where you buy homepage backlinks though?

Anyway thanks for sharing your experience, at least now i know what to do when i'm in similar situations.

[Mold Removal Philadelphia]

I have lost ranking because of bad link practices from an old SEO company. Link pyramids doing 1000's of links and then watched ranks drop. Google is much smarter than us.

[apeee]

I am facing same situation with few of my affiliate sites. I was getting around 600-800 unique visitors a day and it dropped to 20-50 overnight. My affiliate links were not nofollow and not cloaked so that must have been one reason.

@dahlgren_m, did you get your ranking back? and what do you think why it got google slapped because I am also trying to find out the actual problem so that I can fix it before its too late.

[thaijony]

Hi all..., I am new to this forum site. I am form United States. I am very glad that I am able to register out over her. I don't have much knowledge but would like to gain & share whatever I have.

[radivoj]

Have you received any Google message in your Webmaster Account for that site ? if you didn't then it's just Google dance if you got message that said : " We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. " if you got this message then it's link penalty most likely 50 penalty, if you don't have webmaster account then quickly create one add domain and you will get message right way if anything went wrong...

[jsmith2482]

I just checked my webmaster account and saw this message.

Search results clicks for http://www.yoursite/yourpage have increased significantly. Yay!

That was on March 10th when the page was #1 for a few competitive keywords. Since then the page has been dropped to the middle of page 1 after being a strong #1 for months?

Why?

Originally Posted by radivoj

Have you received any Google message in your Webmaster Account for that site ? if you didn't then it's just Google dance if you got message that said : " We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. " if you got this message then it's link penalty most likely 50 penalty, if you don't have webmaster account then quickly create one add domain and you will get message right way if anything went wrong...

[radivoj]

Originally Posted by jsmith2482

I just checked my webmaster account and saw this message.

Search results clicks for http://www.yoursite/yourpage have increased significantly. Yay!

That was on March 10th when the page was #1 for a few competitive keywords. Since then the page has been dropped to the middle of page 1 after being a strong #1 for months?

Why?

Well I can't provide correct answer, how old is your site ? it should be a least 1+ year old in order to establish trust with Google, the reason your site drop most likely Google dance or competition hitting that keyword with links trying to rank for, regarding Google new algorithm update it's very hard for new site which is month or a few month old less then a year to rank #1 for competitive term it may if site getting high PR link but very hard to maintain that #1 with the site less then a year old...to point out one more thing if you are planing to go after some kw to rank for, the best thing is to buy expired high PR domain that has targeting kw in it, even if site has PR 0 but is 2 + old it's very Good, you can find plenty of expired domain using register compass tool, also keep in mind there is no any problem buying expired domain and moving to your host with different IP, as long as domain is not penalized by Google Matt Cutts has confirmed that on the video...

[JDIZM]

hmmm old thread brought to life for no reason..

[jsmith2482]

My site is 6+ years old with 1000's of pages of unique content on it. Backlinks come from a whole mix of sources so it's not article marketing or blog networks. It's also not the competition, this specific URL was a very solid #1 for MONTHS. I find it hard to believe that the 5-6 sites ranking above it ALL started doing a ton of backlinking in 5-6 days to push me down .

Originally Posted by radivoj

Well I can't provide correct answer, how old is your site ? it should be a least 1+ year old in order to establish trust with Google, the reason your site drop most likely Google dance or competition hitting that keyword with links trying to rank for, regarding Google new algorithm update it's very hard for new site which is month or a few month old less then a year to rank #1 for competitive term it may if site getting high PR link but very hard to maintain that #1 with the site less then a year old...to point out one more thing if you are planing to go after some kw to rank for, the best thing is to buy expired high PR domain that has targeting kw in it, even if site has PR 0 but is 2 + old it's very Good, you can find plenty of expired domain using register compass tool, also keep in mind there is no any problem buying expired domain and moving to your host with different IP, as long as domain is not penalized by Google Matt Cutts has confirmed that on the video...

[King444]

Originally Posted by Dmreed4311

wow im gonna do exactly what you did but to my competition and get all the way to #1

This is the problem with Google since your competitors can blast links from bad neighborhoods or send 1000 of anchored links to get you out of business!

It is the time for another strong competitor to Google in the search market.

[JackPowers]

Norwegian bro, listen to me, I actully know what I'm talking about (and so does that Mike guy).

First of all, you lost 30 HPB to a paypal error. The exact thing happened to me once and that site was raking in at least $1500 a month so I was pissed. Losing those links alone will send you spiraling downwards. Second, you have too many spam links pointing directly at your site. Send them to semi-credible backlinks instead like AMR articles or blog network posts.

But what happens when you lose 30 HPB links in a short time is that your link graph (or what you want to call it), must look really suspicious to Google. I dropped from 2nd to 40 and haven't recovered in 5 months. I didn't replace those HPB though, because I didn't want to shell out hundreds of dollars every month anyway when I could be buying my own domains.

Build a new site and get a network of your own sites and learn from your mistake. Keep building but don't get your hopes up for it to recover. Consider this site to be back at zero.

[andyveer]

Today, same happne with me , got on no 1 for 2 main keywords 3 days ago, for week no on other main keyword and in first page of google for 5,6 keywords, now i check no where in google, i have buy lot of services for it, for past week, haven't buy though .
Yesterday my another site, it was no where in google, come in 2 page direct and then went no where, and come on 1 rank after 4 days now yesterday got removed from Google, no where, pages are index thought ,
and 1 month ago another site , i was on no 3 page for 6,7 months, for main keyword, month ago that keyword is no where, so want to know i should work on that site or not? is Google ban for particular keyword too, or they ban complete site, alll sites are not banned, thought was year old ,but have buy lot of services .

[Thinking_man_too]

I have a site that got hit in September. still gone despite major rework. I once had a site gone for a year. A good idea is to get a domain for a related keyword phrase and either move the articles over there and kill the original site off or rewrite and move and have two sites if the other comes back. But you have to start backlinking and promoting from scratch. But if the on page seo and keyword research is good it will save you a ton of time.

[Thinking_man_too]

The reason is googles recent release. has a lot of people scrambling for answers.

[affhelper]

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Won't work because Good links in their link portfolio actually help to dampen the effect of blasts. You can't for example bring Adobe down because they already have great high authority links. Its sites that don't have them that get tanked.

You won't rank number 1 in your serp because the site ahead of you have better links if you check your carpet site for example. Same reason why you are not ranking as well.

Maybe not Adobe, but any other blog with PR2-3 yes you can bring them down.

I have many natural links but so what? Someone was able to bring it down.

[xshadowx]

what kind of backlinks did you order for your homepage? can you pm me with the service name, link please?
thanks
PS: i experienced the same terror to one of my site, and it got back, i ll share back what i did

[Viramara]

Originally Posted by outwest

I would say "ordering" blasts of links
nobody cares about the quality of your links like you would care
handing that over to someone else to me is a bit dangerous

Its giving away the keys to your site to someone else, because backlinks considered spammy, or from "bad neighborhoods" are extremely frowned on by google

Sorry....I'm a bit confused with this. If getting links from "bad neighborhoods" or trashy places can get your butt...err...website kicked, then it would be easy for your competitors to throw you the bomb to sandbox your website, right?

[apzzz]

I used to got a same problem just like you. One of my page was in #1 google and drive traffic over 5000 visits/month for my site. After staying in the 1st position for after 1 year it got kicked to #346, and until now it never get back to the top.