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What am i Doing wrong? Traffic gone for over a month

by amerigo
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I have many pages, such as the one i'm about to link to. These pages did really really well at launch, then all of a sudden completely STOPPED ranking in the serps (but not de-indexed).

Every time that I send a reconsideration request, asking google what the issue with my site is, I never get a reply.

I have built many link wheels, bookmarks, etc, but I don't seem to ever get my rankings back.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I would like to get this network of sites (27 sites, though only 1 listed) up and making money again.
#month #traffic #wrong
  • Profile picture of the author Allyn Hane
    I did not look at your site because of the anchor text you used, but anyway... if your URL is new, then you are facing what is called "the sandbox"
    Look it up on Wikipedia if you like.
    I recommend buying pre-owned domains that have some authority and you can avoid this problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
    Maybe the rank they sit at now is the 'real' rank and you need to work to get them higher?
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  • Profile picture of the author Smokey_Joe
    (1) First off, this is most likely what is called the sandbox, that is has to do with the newness of the site.

    (2) Networked sites is what matters to google in the way that once detected as such, these links are discounted or ignored. As far as I understood, your whole network has stopped ranking, is that so?

    (3) Submitting multiple reconsideration request is not advisable. Also, if you submit a reconsideration request without having seen to the parts violating the guidelines (in case there occurred violations), the perspectives do not look good at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author amerigo
    Removed the link.

    Thanks for the advice guys. Ends up being that it was temporal links (links that faded). Once my new links got counted, I shot right back to the #1-20 slots, back to 120 visitors a day as of yesterday.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi amerigo,

      I'm glad to hear you are back in the SERPs.

      You can avoid those traffic droughts if you focus on a better quality of backlinks. In my opinion, what quality means is abundant targeted traffic.

      If you focus on getting links from websites that have plenty of highly targeted traffic, that is extremely relevant to your own website, you can easily get twice the traffic from direct links that you could hope for from organic listings in the search engines. Even if you drop completely from the search engines you will still have robust traffic from your direct links. This is an important fact that always seems to escape the PageRank whores. Targeted traffic always trumps PageRank, relevant links from high traffic pages always trumps links from low traffic high PR pages.
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