Dropped from #2 to #141. Penalty or Newbie?
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One of my sites has been ranking between #2 and #5 for a certain keyword for nearly a year now. Yesterday I had a look, only to find myself in #141 at the moment. There's a few things I have changed:
1. Redirected my old URL to my new one (old root url to new url inner page url) with a 301 (via cpanel redirect).
2. Bought Angela's WSO backlinks and added a bunch of those to link to the new inner page.
So I was under the impression that a 301 should tell Google:" Hey guys, still the same stuff here". Might be slightly different (e.g reworded etc).
Other keywords which have ranked quite well for my old site are still up there in the SERPs. Its just my main keyword that took a dive.
Is this because Google is treating it as a new site, or am I being punished for feeding too many backlinks all over sudden?
1. Redirected my old URL to my new one (old root url to new url inner page url) with a 301 (via cpanel redirect).
2. Bought Angela's WSO backlinks and added a bunch of those to link to the new inner page.
So I was under the impression that a 301 should tell Google:" Hey guys, still the same stuff here". Might be slightly different (e.g reworded etc).
Other keywords which have ranked quite well for my old site are still up there in the SERPs. Its just my main keyword that took a dive.
Is this because Google is treating it as a new site, or am I being punished for feeding too many backlinks all over sudden?
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