Gah! I'm in the supplemental index and can't figure out why
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I have been targeting the obvious keyword phrase here, "photography basics". I hit the index at position 250 or so, and stayed there for a few days, before popping up to 100-120 for a couple of days. Then I disappeared. poof I'm no longer in the top 1000 results, nor am I returning in the top 1000 for any of the other very low competition keywords I'm targeting with articles.
I'm still holding out hope that this is just another Google Dance, but it doesn't feel right to me - I've never completely dropped out like that. Have I been "sandboxed"? Have I been moved to the supplemental index?
I've not done a lot with the site in terms of promotion yet, preferring to build content and slowly but surely pull in social traffic. I have a few blog comments pointed to the home page, along with 2-3 posts on reddit. I did do a burst of 200 or so statistic site links, but this is something I've done many times on new sites without issue; they are almost all nofollow links from PR n/a pages, and they don't last. They're mainly for indexing purposes.
I've added the site in Webmaster Tools, hoping I could get some sort of notification of something that was wrong, but haven't. There were a few broken internal links, but again, nothing that stands out. When I was ranking, I was getting a 5-10% CTR in search.
I'm using the default Wordpress template, Twenty Eleven. It has crossed my mind that Google may consider this a part of the footprint of an autoblog, but I actually like it the way I have it customized slightly. It's minimal and it works, and I have content to write. Not a priority.
Any idea what could be causing this, and how I can fix it?
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