Top 3 in Google for over a month, slapped to page 34 overnight

Yes it did happen on June 6th or 7th.

Google released Panda update 2.2 I think which might be one of the causes. Though I am just guessing...

Ernie exactly at the same time that also happened to me. I kicked off to 9 spot back without reason. I lost so many potential customers. After 3 days I got a bit higher by 3 spots and today 1 spot more.

Exactly. Do a search for google honeymoon period .

Your site now ranks where it ranks naturally. Tends to happen to most new sites.

I have had this happen to me before, Its really annoying. I would agree with some of the others here and say give it sometime to settle then try to make your SEO stronger.

I wish google didn't love new websites so much and we wouldn't have this problem.

What your seeing is the honeymoon effect. What this means is if you make a new site and your on-page SEO is done fairly well and you start backlinking a little bit your site is going to jump either to the first page or near the first page.

People see this and assume this is your position. Definitely wrong. How could a new site with no indexed backlinks be beating out PR3 sites with 1,000+ backlinks that have years of age to them.

Your site will get re adjusted where it should be. Work your way up. With low comp keywords its just a matter of time really than how many backlinks your throwing at your website.

Yeah it's widely accepted that Ezine articles were hurting after Panda update.

I am not a fan of softwares for SEO works. But I use seo administrator at occasion.
You can get a free version here:
Seo Administrator
It checks all seo items. and compare it with your competitors.

Don't you mean Matt Cutts? ;-)

are the 1000s pages original unique content?

Back in March my first niche site made it to page one of google, #8 spot.It was 4 months old at that point. It was there for 1 week and disappeared. It just came back to the front page #9 spot this past Tuesday, June 7. It took a little over 10 weeks I think.

I fixed some on page seo problems and kept slowly and consistently building backlinks. Basically, just kept working on it as I normally did before.

I'm sure this probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but that's just what happened to me. Maybe you'll bounce back a lot quicker.

Just me 2c but i had a site that went totally gone 2months ago after Panda update, it came back June the 7th when are alot of other peoples did and then went out of all SERPS again a day later.

I figured it was getting penalised and a I probably knew why, I got rid of all dupe content and keyword stuffing and a day later it came back and been strong ever since.

Yeah, but the problem is Panda is manually executed by Google (it's not a part of their built-in algorithm).

So if you've been affected by Panda, even after you clean the site, you need to wait till they run the algorithm again.


More info: Coming Soon: Google Panda Update 2.2

You obviously not in tune with what has been happening in the SEO world in the last week. You offering an SEO service, I think you should at least keep track of the latest trends and shifts that are taking place.

Thanks everyone for all the responses and information.

I think the general consensus is, ride the storm out, and in the meantime consistently add quality content and backlinks, and that is what I am going to do.

It's done and it's Google, so to coin a Tony Soprano phrase, "whataya gonna do about it, huh?"

Thank you sir. I find it more appropriate than:

"This one time I got my Geocities page on the first page of Google for a keyword phrase (Disclaimer: Only when I searched in quotes for some reason") due to some random statistical variation within a complex algorithm that no one understands completely. I am now an SEO God and you can have all mah secretz for the low price of ONLY $37 DOLLA kthx"

Happened to me now, so frustrating that I don't know what to do anymore.
You work your ass off and Google just feels like dropping your site.

Had a site on places 26-28 for 2 keywords, was able to promote it to places 12-13 and then to place 10 for both keywords. Than I guess Google sees it in its good eye or whatever, right?

This morning I find my site in places 61-62 for the 2 keywords. From place 10??? Come on!

Now tell me this is not frustrating, I mean how can you run a business when Google decides to do whatever he wishes every Monday to Friday?

What now? Keep building backlinks and adding content? Who knows what's next. Traffic is hurt and no sales of-course....so angry right now I want to cry....

Anyone?

**UPDATE**
I submitted a request to Google, a few days later they sent me an email basically saying I wasn't "manually" docked and wasn't breaking any rules. There is a little info in the email, I will copy/paste it at the end of this thread in case someone is interested.

The good news is today I am back on page 1 taking both the 6th and 7th spots. I will be back up to top 3 soon... if your interested the site is:
how to reduce thighs . org and of course that's my keyword.

Here is the google letter, I can't post links yet so I edited it a bit:

Dear site owner or webmaster of (web site address), We received a request from a site owner to reconsider (web site address) for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines. We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site's ranking in Google. There's no need to file a reconsideration request for your site, because any ranking issues you may be experiencing are not related to a manual action taken by the webspam team. Of course, there may be other issues with your site that affect your site's ranking. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users. If you've experienced a change in ranking which you suspect may be more than a simple algorithm change, there are other things you may want to investigate as possible causes, such as a major change to your site's content, content management system, or server architecture. For example, a site may not rank well if your server stops serving pages to Googlebot, or if you've changed the URLs for a large portion of your site's pages. This article has a list of other potential reasons your site may not be doing well in search. If you're still unable to resolve your issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support. Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team

I am thinking so as well, but it's now starting to come back, at least to page 2 so far. I have added some good links and content since this happened so I am expecting to be on page 1 again soon.

Here is an update to my previous post.

This morning I got up and sat at the computer to check my overnight earnings and my emails and got a very pleasant surprise.

My site is back to PR3

Is this a sign that Panda is settling down?

I don't know about that, what I know is that in my opinion this reinforces my believe that if you are doing things right and your site gets affected by a Google update, don't worry about it, just keep doing the same things (adding unique content and building backlinks) and before you know it, it will bounce back.