SLAP!! Google moved me from page 1 to page 9. What the...?
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As an experiment, I started a jokes website. It's a very specific joke niche. I entered the first 100 jokes, and created a joke-submission form where people can enter their own jokes. I also created a five-star rating system for visitors to vote for their favorites.
I launched the site on August 4, 2008. According to Google, I'm competing with about 8 million other pages for my main keyword phrase.
I did all of the "standard" SEO and link-building techniques. All of the meta tags are appropriate. Keywords density is good. Sitemap is there. About us. Contact us. It's all there.
Within about 2 weeks, the site was in the top 10 for my main keyword phrase. Within about 6 weeks, I was in the top 3 or 4 for several keyword phrases.
For monetization, I was using adsense and CPA banner ads. The traffic climbed to nearly 1200 unique daily visitors by November. Nearly 2000 jokes had been submitted, so the content was staying fresh every day.
Then, on December 11, SLAP! My traffic dropped drastically. December 10 had almost 1400 unique visitors. December 11 had only 229. December 12... 75 visitors. Yesterday... 12 visitors. I went from position 3 or 4 to page 9!
What the #%$!?
I'm stumped. I have numerous other sites that I've built with the same techniques and they're all doing great.
Did anyone else notice a change around that time? Could it be the CPA ads (2 banners per page)? Could it be the adsense ads (2 blocks per page)?
Are there tools to tell me if I have a quality score problem.
Any thoughts?
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