My Page 1 Sites Vanished From Google Overnight, Was It Due To Backlink Work?

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Hi digigo, thanks for the reply, the company that did the backlink work and authority site link work does good work I found them through a WSO and they are not one of the companies to watch out for, so nothing black hat was done. Blogs created, social accounts, RSS feed submission etc, so nothing dodgy.

Before the work I was already ranking well for my terms, specially the long term of work from home, I had first spot for work from home dvds, work from home cds page 1, now I am not even listing for them. I was page 1 for write an ebook and writing ebooks, now no where to be seen.

Page 1 for cat training book and now no where to be seen, these are all sites I did have link work done with in the end though and my anchor text for each had keywords in it, so whether the big Gs update is penalising incoming links related to the site I have no idea what is going on. My results only vanished within the last 24 hours though, so whether they will come back I have no idea, but like I say, 3 different sites, 3 different hosts in 3 different niches and all no longer ranking for their keywords.

Thanks WD, that major sucks if you host your own videos or have streaming content, would that mean a text based site with no graphics would get priority over a site with rich multimedia content?

If your sites are gone you need to figure out why. The data is there for you too, all you need to do is look. By this I mean look at what has taken your place. Do a full analysis of it all and you'll probably notice some striking differences in the new rankings. It's the only way.

This is understandable. Google strives to provide positive user experience. It has become such BAU for marketers to manipulate rankings to spam sites that it makes perfect sense for google to change how it ranks web pages.

I don' t think this is true going by what Matt Cutts said in a video. Here is the thread that has the video. Hope it's still there:

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post1514301

I had the same thing happen to me. My webmaster site has about 11 rankings for keywords that I never did anything for. All of them are on the first page of google which states from the webmaster. When I click on the link and look for my site its gone. Now I never did any SEO for these keywords. Google placed them for me. Why would webmaster be screwed up?

Yes, just as you said you have the same 250 articles and more back links. I wont say back links don't play a good part of the rankings but you need quality links from reputable sites.

A lot of people say that there is no way Google penalizes for links because I others would just do it to their competition. Well that's bull, you do get penalized for the wrong links that come in too fast and too uniformed. There are other factors too but no one knows it all but Google. The key in in the original content.

If I had to make a choice between building 500 back links from sites like ezine, squidoo........ or creating 50 new pages on my site all containing original content that complements each other I"d pick the 50 new pages and let the linking structure work it's self out.

The problem is that most people want results now and that is not reality when building a business to last. You must show every person and network possible that your serious and in it for the long haul. To do this your must continue to produce quality content, it took a long time for this to sink into my head because I was like 99% of us, I wanted results so I looked for any easy way out I could find.

Easy come and easy go, period

Keep writing but stay original and on topic

Hi Taylor,

let me explain it this way . Google has caught on to the false inflation of sites so they flipped everything again. however this is not new a site load time should be under 6-8 seconds and if you want your visitor to remain you need to have some sort of links for them or text to capture them within 2.

I have a video on my site a fairly big sized graphic but the load time is 2.6 seconds you can optimize your videos and images. Google is more content driven it loves content fresh real content mmmm yummy Google says Don't misunderstand the popularity of your site and the amount of sites linking to it are still relevant it just is not the main indexing aspect they are looking for now or rather the spider is looking for.

Don't worry it is not like your not going to get indxed text based sites such as blogs etc get indexed whammo images video or not it just depends on the load time as to how it competes with others sites that will make it relevant in the top 10

HTH
-WD

Flame the voice of reason? No, what you say is right. It's too early to know how it will shake out over the next few weeks, and way too early to panic.

Check back with me in a couple weeks, I'll let you know if it's okay to panic then.

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Yeah, indexing has been very interesting too...