Wierd Situation: Sudden rank drop with no backlinks

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Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and kinda new to the field with only a year in the industry. I cant for the life of me figure out why a site I am working on dropped randomly across the board. Some of the pages dropped from spot 2 all the way to spot 300 while some dropped from spot 2 to spot 10.

I'm not sure what happened but I assume it has something to do with links. I have built no links to the site and I have been doing everything as white hat as possible. If anyone has the spare time to take a peek and let me know what they think, the site is kentuckianaculligan(dot)com.

I would really appreciate it guys/gals.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author seoace
    Check your rankings after a week then you can take action from there.

    This is common stuff for everyone. (yes, even if you don't have any backlinks)
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    • Profile picture of the author Chika A
      Originally Posted by seoace View Post

      Check your rankings after a week then you can take action from there.

      This is common stuff for everyone. (yes, even if you don't have any backlinks)
      Thanks Seoace, I am kinda nervous about this one because I have never seen such a dramatic drop before. I will be patient and wait. Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    As was said above give it a week or even two before you start making changes, the first few times it happened to me I spent weeks shifting everything around and it only made matters worse... only when I gave up, and the changes all settled down, did my search engine visitors all return.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Gone
    Just this week I had a site that was #7 (Five weeks) on page one. And a few days later it was on page 18. I did not change anything and there is no back links to the site. And four days later it was back in the top 10. I have no clue what happened. I was thinking someone did some sort of a SEO attack on my site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chika A
      Thank You everyone who replied. I will be patient and hopefully I will see my ranks go up in a week or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Yes you can wait a bit, but I want to know if beside backlinks you are doing any other activity for your site ranking?
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by Chika A View Post

    I have built no links to the site and I have been doing everything as white hat as possible.
    Maybe, just maybe, your competition is working like an animal, actually
    building links....among other things.

    It's sounds like you are doing nothing. What does doing nothing going to
    eventually lead to?

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  • Profile picture of the author kaizenify
    I am seeing something similar with my sites last few days and I know its not my competition doing anything ... I'm seeing it for dozens of sites, with little link building done and 1 site with a lot of link building done
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  • Profile picture of the author clydefrog
    maybe another google update is coming.
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  • Profile picture of the author seomercury123
    I think it happen because you are not doing anything on your website so its dropped. You have to do some kind of Link Building stuff which help you to improve your ranking as well as maintain it. If you not doing anything than no one can help you to get high ranking or it may be part of Google Update.
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