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Lost All My Rankings

by kachaloo
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Hi,
I was doing pretty well for my first site. I had 100 visits a day and I had made two sales google had put be in position two for 3 of my main keywords and life was getting better.


Yesterday I lost all my rankings for 3 different keywords and from 100 visits I fell to 5 visits a day. My site is still in the index but I don't show up in the searches anymore. I have a way to check the first 500 results and I am still not there.


I don't think this is the google dance as I have already experienced this a month back when my rankings were climbing the ladder.


Has anyone experienced something like this ?


Cheers,
Kachaloo
#lost #rankings
  • Profile picture of the author jasejames
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    • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
      Originally Posted by jasejames View Post

      Are you sure you haven't done anything that unsettles "Google"
      Just one thing I use cloaking for my links but I guess everyone does that.

      Also I put all my links in a folder and restrict google bots there.
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  • Profile picture of the author tmauto
    I've got this kind of thing for one of my site over six months. Somedays I earn $100 because I'm #1, a few days later I'm nowhere and earn nothing. However, two weeks later I get back #1. Guess it's google dance.
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    • Profile picture of the author burnsai
      This happened on several of my sites. If your site is more than 6 months old then you might have a problem. If it's about 3 months old - then you will probably rebound in a couple weeks (3 months is when my sites took a temporary dive)

      You may also have been ranking for something that you had no business ranking for - and google just figured it out - in which case you may never get back to here you were.

      I would suggest that you just keep building links and adding content.

      Good luck!
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      • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
        Originally Posted by burnsai View Post

        This happened on several of my sites. If your site is more than 6 months old then you might have a problem. If it's about 3 months old - then you will probably rebound in a couple weeks (3 months is when my sites took a temporary dive)

        You may also have been ranking for something that you had no business ranking for - and google just figured it out - in which case you may never get back to here you were.

        I would suggest that you just keep building links and adding content.

        Good luck!
        This month by site turned 6 months old . Lets see for another week how things go.
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    • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
      Originally Posted by tmauto View Post

      I've got this kind of thing for one of my site over six months. Somedays I earn $100 because I'm #1, a few days later I'm nowhere and earn nothing. However, two weeks later I get back #1. Guess it's google dance.
      yes, my site is 6 months old and I am going for very tough keywords. I guess I just need to sit and wait.


      In my case all my rankings for all keywords have been lost. Has this also happened to you ?
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  • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
    any advice what I should do ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rus Sells
    Have you done any LSI content? If not then you should seriously consider building out that type of content as well. It will underpin your main keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
      Originally Posted by Rus Sells View Post

      Have you done any LSI content? If not then you should seriously consider building out that type of content as well. It will underpin your main keywords.
      yes, I have done lsi content , have you had this kind of problem ? where your main 3 or so keywords lost rank together ?
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  • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
    Check webmaster tool, fix everything that is wrong, and get the edu gov link packet, High PR authority blog comments, I guarantee your site will be back in a week.
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    • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
      Originally Posted by kkchoon View Post

      Check webmaster tool, fix everything that is wrong, and get the edu gov link packet, High PR authority blog comments, I guarantee your site will be back in a week.
      Great advice, I found a bunch of crawl errors and I will take care of them.

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      As you are one of the most experienced on the forum I would appreciate it if you can share your experience with cloaking. I am having around 40 unique links which are cloaked and I plan to add another 100.


      What are your views ?


      Thank you,
      Kachaloo
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  • Profile picture of the author simonheng82
    sit back steadily and continue to build backlinks, you will see your serp improve and solidly sitting on where it should be.

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  • Profile picture of the author Groovystar
    I'm really naive about this stuff. What is link cloaking and why is it done?

    ....Again sorry about sounding dumb or getting off topic.
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    • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
      Originally Posted by Groovystar View Post

      I'm really naive about this stuff. What is link cloaking and why is it done?

      ....Again sorry about sounding dumb or getting off topic.
      its a method which is not considered white hat seo. The aim is to hide the actual link from the end user and the search bots so that they look pretty and help in seo.


      I only do this for my affiliate links as I have noticed my pages rank better when I cloak using javascript or php.


      How to do this ? Well do a google search and you will get the idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author zenji
    You are not alone.
    Google recently made a few changes. Check out this link
    SEOmoz | Whiteboard Friday - Google's May Day Update & What It Means for You
    I hope this helps you understand why your rankings dropped overnight.
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamer31
    I think it is a "Google Dance". I also had such similar experiences and after 3-4 days everything is back on the road. Only if you deny us something? If you did not try to apprehend a few days and everything will be ok (and done some link building as well).
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Ignite
    You should definitely check out who is linking to you? Have you got links too quickly? these are definitely red flags to stay away from...
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