SEO Mystery: Bing/Yahoo Slap or Dance

Wild · 02-01-2012, 07:40 PM

Here's a diagnostic question:
10 year old domain with recent tune-up of on-page optimization. Quality content has been added. 2 months into the project and it's climbing the rankings like a rockstar. From almost being invisible to hundreds of visitors per day.

We've been Doing steady backlinking: article marketing, blog posts, and social media (close to 10,000 fan page tie-in) and bookmarking (social ADR bot and Social Monkee) It's been ranking high for 50 keywords. We added WSO Matt Laclear's article service (750 backlinks) to try to get to page 1 for more keywords. Suddenly the site has disappeared from Bing/Yahoo and dropped in Google. Traffic cut by 70% overnight.

Is this a slap from too many backlinks too quickly or just the bouncing around? I've never had a site bounce like this.

Any and all opinions and responses are greatly appreciated.

thatkeywordguy · 02-01-2012, 07:47 PM

How many days has it been down?

It sounds like a pretty aggressive gray hat backlink building strategy so... ya never know

Wild · 02-01-2012, 07:49 PM

I noticed traffic slowing on Monday and then today just vanished. Yes I thought the 750 was a drip feed, but evidently it's put out at once and the "drip" is in the indexing.

02-01-2012, 07:40 PM	#1
Wild Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 71 Thanks: 18 Thanked 15 Times in 10 Posts	SEO Mystery: Bing/Yahoo Slap or Dance Here's a diagnostic question: 10 year old domain with recent tune-up of on-page optimization. Quality content has been added. 2 months into the project and it's climbing the rankings like a rockstar. From almost being invisible to hundreds of visitors per day. We've been Doing steady backlinking: article marketing, blog posts, and social media (close to 10,000 fan page tie-in) and bookmarking (social ADR bot and Social Monkee) It's been ranking high for 50 keywords. We added WSO Matt Laclear's article service (750 backlinks) to try to get to page 1 for more keywords. Suddenly the site has disappeared from Bing/Yahoo and dropped in Google. Traffic cut by 70% overnight. Is this a slap from too many backlinks too quickly or just the bouncing around? I've never had a site bounce like this. Any and all opinions and responses are greatly appreciated.
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02-01-2012, 07:47 PM	#2
thatkeywordguy KeywordResearcher.org Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 266 Thanks: 93 Thanked 69 Times in 34 Posts Social Networking	Re: SEO Mystery: Bing/Yahoo Slap or Dance How many days has it been down? It sounds like a pretty aggressive gray hat backlink building strategy so... ya never know
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02-01-2012, 07:49 PM	#3
Wild Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 71 Thanks: 18 Thanked 15 Times in 10 Posts	Re: SEO Mystery: Bing/Yahoo Slap or Dance I noticed traffic slowing on Monday and then today just vanished. Yes I thought the 750 was a drip feed, but evidently it's put out at once and the "drip" is in the indexing.
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