Why Do My Sites Disappear? Rating High Then Drop Majorly

*Buying backlinks - I recently bought a backlink package and my plr site disappeared shortly after, although there aren't too many of those backlinks indexed at all so I wouldn't think it would be that. The newer site I hadn't bought backlinks and in fact had only created around 50 backlinks over the couple of months the site has been live.

*Too many too fast - the plr site main backlinks are from here in my sig - only a couple hundred other backlinks from various sites.

*Dripping auto-content - I don't use auto-content on any of my blogs

*Competitors sabotaging you with anti-campaigns - possible but wouldn't think so on varied niches

*Buying third tier traffic... - nope don't do that

*Promoting in usual aff infested pools of traffic - no I don't think so

I have another site that's 8 or 9 months old now and should rank well for it's main keywords but doesn't, it's down in the 1,000's - never bought backlinks, never done anything blackhat or greyhat - no idea why it happens

But if Google was going to 'punish' my site wouldn't they de-index it? They are still indexed.

Hundreds of people buy backlink services, surely they don't all get penalized for it or no-one would be doing it anymore. It wasn't even a huge backlink service.

Are my sites just to be written off now or can I bring them back from the dead?

I think making a thread in Webmaster Central Help
can give you better idea.
I hope this can help you.

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THanks

I'm not sure what triggered your problem, but I currently see an interior page of your Quality PLR site at position 228 broad match. (Using Market Samurai to check.)

You are right, though. The main page is not showing up within the top 1000.

When you mention "bought a backlink package", the one thing I would worry about is where the backlinks are from. If they are from sites which Google starts seeing as either a source of "selling backlinks" or is from sites which have a tendency to link to "anything and everything" you may not get de-indexed but simply take a severe ranking penalty.

The best way to combat this is to start focusing on highly relevant links from higher PR sites for a while and see if you begin to see your site climbing back up through the ranks.

I just about bought a "backlink package" on Fiverr a week ago for a play/test site. One I am willing to see disappear from Google if it happens. Then I stopped and thought for a moment. I have no idea where they are going to put these links, the PR of the sites, but I do know they are selling this identical service over and over and over again. Which means to me it is going to be a very diluted source of backlinks very fast with a higher chance of taking a severe Google penalty much sooner, too.

I went back to blog commenting, videos, articles, and other content locations using Posterous and my rankings keep slowly climbing week after week. It may not be fast, but it is at least consistent, and safe.

Hope it pops back in for you. Your site is high quality and deserves the attention.

Barry

Thanks Barry

The backlinking service I believe is profile backlinks, but there are very few of them that have even been indexed, that's why I can't really see it being the reason for the drop in ranking.

The service I used is also from a very reputable Warrior that I trust to give a good service.

I've just added the site to webmaster tools and I've put in a reconsideration request, I'll keep building links using article marketing and blog commenting and hopefully I'll get it back up.

Here's what I'm seeing.

The vast majority of the links are signature links from right here on Warrior Forum. Many of the others are weaker footer links, ad banner links or profile links. So, you're in a rather weak position where any discounting of a site that's linking to you can cause a dramatic drop in ranking. I suspect this is what's happened and not any kind of direct penalty.

Another thing that might be impacting your ranking is that, as I recall, you swap out your footer links here often as you introduce new PLR packages. This means one page on your site loses 3000+ links overnight and this doesn't look particularly good to the algorithm. This will probably put your site into a recalculate state. As long as your site is bolstered by strong authority links it wouldn't be a significant problem but when a site lacks this 'anchor' such changes will make it dance about.

Hey Sheryl,

My PLR has consistently been on the 2nd and 3rd page for keyword phrases I'm trying to optimize. Haven't moved and inch!

Did most of your traffic come from organic searches? Not that it wouldn't be sweet to be Numero Uno for 'Buy PLR' or 'Free PLR' or even 'Quality PLR', but so far the traffic for me is not organic for the more high traffic keywords. Traffic is coming in via direct referral.

I'm going to start a 30 day campaign on a new keyword phrase or two and see if I can get them to the top. Not as popular as 'buy plr' but not to shabby either.

Kater

I don't know what your problem could be, I am not convinced about issue of buying backlinks. But if it had happened to more than one site, I would suggest that you split your hosting among different Class C ip addresses. That saved my business from oblivion.

if your site does not have unique content this is always going to happen. When google first indexes you you will rank higher for each article for a little bit then google will scrub harder and throw your duplicate content lower or completely out of their index. Its pretty simple if you want long term ranking write unique content or hire someone to.

The same thing happens to me. I just wrote a post about this, well I was trying to convey the same question you had. I think my problem has to do with the hosting provider.

Sheryl, the same thing happened to me and I posted about it a few weeks ago. My site has suffered since. I haven't even begun to attempt to rebuild it but I did purchase a backlinks package.

At this point, when I'm ready I'll reoptimize it and build new content, but that's about it.

Backlink Packages are a joke

if you build links from link packages you have a large chance of getting your serps removed and not just the links you bought. Trust me it has happened to me. You can believe those self proclaimed "seo gurus" who do not make money how they say they do. Most of them just making money from scamming you into believing that they make money the way they say they do and selling you a product that is worthless or even harmful .

my 2 cents

I think my site has just gone through this as well. I had first or second page rankings on a variety of different terms and they have all been wiped out in the last day or so. I was using backlink packets primarily to get all those terms. I think I will switch to article writing and turning those articles into videos instead and see how that goes.

Keep firing quality backlinks to the sites. Post new contents.