Advice Please - Did AMR Blast Kill My site?

[HerbyMan]

Hello Warriors,

I'm a long time lurker and reader, but today I need to ask a question that I couldn't resolve with 'search'.

I have a small 'vitamin' website which gets around 12000 visits/mth. I've owned the site for nearly 10 years.
The site has around 120 pages of unique and well written themed content.
It has around 650 back-links, some from good authority sites like Yahoo, Huffington post etc.

My site has always been on the first page of google for its most important search term - a medium comp term, but since Panda it as dropped below the fold into the bottom 3.

After reading a lot about syndication and article marketing I decided to invest in AMR (Article Marketing Robot).
I've submitted articles manually on and off over the years and I've used isnare.com - though never really found more than 10 or 12 of my articles outside of my own website.

So here's the kicker - I did a distribution using AMR and my home page has dropped down to 500 deep! This is the first time in 9 yrs that I've been off the first page of Google and it feels like crap!

The distribution went to 700+ sites, I deleted the obvious spammy stuff that I could see in AMR. I didn't ping anything so figured google would start to see the links more slowly.

I didn't spin the article but I spun the bio. All the bio links were the same, to my home page. I spread the contextual links between around 6 internal pages and 6 search terms.

Will it come back?

Should I stop all distribution or do more?

What the heck did I just do?

Incidentally, before you ask why I did this for a site that already ranked well, I was trying to spread into other longer tail KW's within my niche to develop my traffic base more, and also boost my home page back up a few places!

Any ideas on what just happened and is it fixable, would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks

Allen

[John Romaine]

Allen, when did you apply the changes?

[Zeus66]

That sounds like a classic case of the Google Dance. If you suddenly throw a bunch of backlinks at a page, Google goes into shuffle mode and has to reconsider where it actually belongs relative to the other relevant pages in its index. Relax. It might take days or even a couple weeks, but it should come back. Try to avoid roller coaster link building. Do a consistent amount and pretty quickly Google will pick up on that and stop dancing on your pages.

John

[John Romaine]

Im just about to go to bed, its quite late here and I dont have time to stick around to wait for Allens response, but I have to agree with what John said.

In my experience, when I perform SEO on a site, it usually always drops in the SERPS then comes back STRONGER each time.

See screenshot of an example below.

[John Romaine]

Originally Posted by rooze

Hello Ramone_Johnny,

I sent out the 'blast' on December 4th. On the 8th or 9th I noticed the drop. It hasn't changed now and I'm on or around day 5.

Thanks

Allen

Dude, why are you using multiple accounts????

If its only been a few days - GIVE IT TIME. It will come back stronger.

Im off to bed.

G'nite.

[rooze]

Al,

I sent you a link earlier on this, it's here http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3947606.htm

[manicmethods]

When I'm using AMR, I tend to not blast the site directly very often. The backlinks are such low quality.

What I tend to do is blast a Web 2.0 property with the AMR links with the Web 2.0 property linking to the main site.