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Odd Google Rank Change

by Essive
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I recently had a very good ranking on my site in the top ten search results of Google. Then, about a month ago I decided to add a privacy policy statement on my site. Now, my home page has fallen off the top 500 in Google.

What could be going on here? I haven't done any linking or back-linking changes - just the page addition. Why would a privacy policy do this?
#change #google #odd #rank
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Essive,

    Rankings change frequently, chances are you privacy page had nothing to do with it.

    It's very common for folks to think that when their rank changes, it was caused by whatever they did last, however sometimes it's just Google updating their index or algorithm.
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    • Profile picture of the author lakshaybehl
      Originally Posted by dburk View Post

      Hi Essive,

      Rankings change frequently, chances are you privacy page had nothing to do with it.

      It's very common for folks to think that when their rank changes, it was caused by whatever they did last, however sometimes it's just Google updating their index or algorithm.
      Very right... I have the same things to say!

      Focus on link building and conmtent building.

      Content is not only the king... its the kong... the queen, president, Prime minister, cheif minister of the internet
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      • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
        In other words, content is #1? :p

        Originally Posted by lakshaybehl View Post

        Very right... I have the same things to say!

        Focus on link building and conmtent building.

        Content is not only the king... its the kong... the queen, president, Prime minister, cheif minister of the internet
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      • Profile picture of the author David
        Content is not only the king... its the kong... the queen, president, Prime minister, cheif minister of the internet
        ROFLMAO

        here's some more to add to that list:
        • Field Marshall
        • President for Life
        • General
        • Emperor

        That's me... "General Field Marshall, Prime Minister, President for Life and Emperor of SEO and SEM for Frederick Maryland"
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  • Profile picture of the author Essive
    Thanks for everyone's responses. Indeed I did move back up to #8 in Google on a natural search key phrase with 149,000,000 results. That's great!
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    In the meantime, ensure that you have applied the nofollow tag to your privacy page... and any other non-money pages you may have.

    Andy
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  • Profile picture of the author gdwebs
    I lost a pagerank on the last update, and did nothing different, while a site i havn't touched for 3 months has got a predicted PR2 up from PR1 on the next update!
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  • Profile picture of the author Essive
    Andy, is that something you typically do - add nofollow to terms, disclaimers, etc pages? I hadn't heard that before.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oling
    My website is very similar to yours... I mean it was hihgly rank and it dropp a whole lot. most of the guys here then when ask them was the same as Dburk. It's the algorithm of Big G. doing the trick. Don't worry it will come back.

    Thanks
    Oling
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