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Anyone notice a drop an unusual drop in SERPS in last week?

by consultant1027
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I realize SERPs can dance around all the time but on one site that has always been solidly consistent SERPS for a few of our most competitive terms I recently saw about a 4-5 rank drop (from 3 or 4 to 8 or 9). Never seen these keywords drop like this in the past 5 years, even through Panda. We use a variety of White Hat SEO techniques including outsourcing some link building to one of the providers I found here and their service we've used for the past 6 months with solid results and don't overuse it. I did order another batch of links relating to these keywords lately but nothing out of the ordinary that we haven't done in the past.

I have noticed in the past that sometimes when Google picks up the links you see a drop for a few days then it comes back up. I hope this is the case. I just decided to post this because the keywords in question I've NEVER seen this happen. They'be been top 5 for the past 5 years and only dancing around 1 or 2 positions max from time to time. Never 4 or 5 like I'm just seeing now.
#drop #notice #serps #unusual #week
  • Profile picture of the author linkbuildr
    Most likely link devaluation...if you're doing blog comments/profiles/articles marketing aka spamming then it will eventually drop off the map.
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  • Profile picture of the author glock67
    hes right the backlinks that were pointing to that site might of lost their value which would make the link less effective
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  • Profile picture of the author eduf
    i have same problem there. after 3 years i lost my #2 to #8 and losing every day one position.

    If I use a new domain and redirect with 301, the garbage backlinks will lose their "strength"?
    Assuming that all of the backlinks pointing to the home page.
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  • Profile picture of the author cheapstuff
    Quality backlinks seem to be affecting everyone. Its not necessarily the crappy backlinks negating you but a lack of quality ones spread throughout your linking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jool
    Our main keywords also drop and we are experiencing Google dance too. Up for this thread.
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