interesting things with rankings, some info appreciated...

hey all,

I'm not too experienced what comes to SEO.

thing is, I have about 3 months old website in upcoming niche. ranking was going up slowly but surely, and been adding new unique content and social bookmarking advertising as well.

I ranked with 3 of my keywords in TOP#12 yesterday and late weeks (main keyword #3), and today, I rank with ONLY one at #46 (was #5 yesterday)

I got couple of gigs from fiverr for 10-20 .edu profile links etc. but haven't done any really dodgy stuff with this site.

ALSO, I have this SEO toolbar for searches and now when I do a search, my website gives me this:

| PR: 0 | Age: - | Y! .edu Links: 18,100 | Y! .gov Links: 55 | Y! .edu PageLinks: 15,100 |

and when doing site:mydomain.com some of sites pages get:

Y! .edu Page Links: 1,270,000 (that is my sites about page)

how is that possible???? those don't show up in anywhere, meaning can't find .edu pages that would link to my site. I think 1.2 million is rather difficult to hide?

is someone spamming the links on my behalf? and getting me penalised? or what those numbers mean?

I am still indexed in google with all of my pages, I have still my adsense account active, nor haven't got any notification of any not-allowed activities etc.

is this due some dodgy few .edu profile links? is this google dance? IF so, but how do you explain those .edu links?



thoughts and comments more than welcome...