Site Issues With Google
I'm having some problems with one of my affiliate sites. I'm still pretty new to the whole affiliate marketing thing so go with me.
First of all, the site is around a month old. I was ranking pretty well for most of my keywords and i was happy with the traffic. I added another 25 odd pages last week and over the weekend my rankings all took a hit, one primary keyword from page 2 to 43. I'm unsure if the additional pages are the reason why this has happened.
Now the niche i targeted is pretty common, but very low competitive, but it did have a lot of results. I presume my honeymoon period is now over OR I've received a slap from Google (sandboxed?).
I added around 30 - 40 decent backlinks over the month, added around 80 pages of content in which were affiliate products (which may have been seen as duplicated based on the code), and other pages which consisted of unique content. I checked Info:sitename.com/site:sitename.com and the pages have been indexed and showing.
What do Warriors suggest i do? Should i make this new batch of pages invisible again? Remove some backlinks (one was a blogroll and ended up sending 100 odd)? Add more backlinks? Re-edit some of the current pages? Add new unique content in article format? Any ideas would be fantastic.
My site access has decreased over 400% and a very limited amount of results are coming through the SERPS. I built some pages which really should be page one due to their lack of competition, but they are not in the first 5 or so.
I feel it's worth continuing to update as it has the potential to raise some good affiliate money. I'm patient and eager to learn, so this little hiccup is no problem, even if it means a few months waiting for it to come back.
Let me know if you need any other particular site information.
Cheers,
Adam
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