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Does any one know what happened to this page??

by boris s
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hello warriors,

I have a niche authority website with a lot of number 1-5 positions on GG.

In particular, I had this keyword for which I had been number 1 for at least one year (via a dedicated article page, not the home page of the site).

All of the sudden, a week ago, the page lost it's ranking. In fact it's out of the top 100 for this keyword (though the page is still indexed).

I did not do anything shady on this page ; in fact (and this might be the problem), i have not added a new backlink towards it in a year.

the only potential problem is discovered is that a spammer copied my article and posted it on 10 blogger blogs with his affiliate links.

So did I get a penalty because of that ducplicate content ?

Or is it something else ? Has anyone ever encountered such situation and how did you solve it ??

Thanks
#happened #page
  • Profile picture of the author IMNewbieBlog
    Never had the same problem myself and it does sound pretty strange.

    Really don't know how you can even figure out what it the cause.

    Maybe you should start building some links and see if that will fix the issue.
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    • Profile picture of the author boris s
      i'll probably end up doing just that...
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      • Profile picture of the author IMNewbieBlog
        You should always keep on building links.

        The only time you can allow yourself to stop is if and when you site has gotten to the point that users are linking to it by themselves.
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        • Profile picture of the author boris s
          This the one thing i did stop doing for this particular page, building links :/ but i thought i'd be losing 1-2 postions max, not just drop out. Well i learned my lesson... Ouch

          then again, I have so many sites and positions in the serp that my biggest seo challenge is finding th right processes to get done ! :p
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        • Profile picture of the author AnnYM
          No reason to worry- you are not alone. Your site has not dropped off of Google's radar. Happened to me as and many others. This is sometimes referred to as "everflux". type in your website url into google and search- if you get results google hasn't banned you- be happy


          If you have made major changes to your site recently it might take a few days for the changes and new rankings to be updated in all google data centers. Give it some days and check back- it will be right back up and if your work has been good it will improve positions too!
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  • Profile picture of the author boris s
    thanks AnnYM but the problem is not a sitewide problem, it just concerns a single article.
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  • Profile picture of the author patey88
    Yes, this has happened to me. Someone stole my most productive article and put it on his non-US based site. On his site, the page itself has no backlinks however the site has more than 200,000. Now his copy of my article is on page 1 for the keyword, and mine is on page 95.

    I figure since the articles are identical, Google will only give one copy the high position. But, since I know that an article on my site with that particular filename and that particular keyword is capable of ranking high, I think my best solution is to re-write it. Make it be unique again, and even longer than the original.

    I'm hoping this will get me back up to page one eventually. I haven't done it yet, but I have done similar re-writes when I needed to compete with my own article on EzineArticles outranking the copy on my site, and that has worked. (In that situation, I also slightly change the keyword, title and filename.)
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