I've only recently started trying to build backlinks to my site and use Ahrefs to monitor progress. I was surprised to see how poor my rank was compared to my competitors, especially as I rank better then them with Alexa. But then my ranking dropped another 5 millions places on one night and I wondered what could have caused this. The only things I can think of are that I've suddenly become a lot more active in building links and that the vast majority of my backlinks are from one site who I do work for and as part of that they reciprocate with a link to my site from their homepage. About four months ago the link was made 'no follow' to avoid making it look bad to Google. Should I ask them to remove the link all together, or do you think it sounds like this wouldn't be the reason for my poor rankings?
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