Delisted by Google for keywords?

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I am not completely sure of what is going on with my one site but I had noticed a drop in traffic. Upon further investigation it seems that my site has been delisted for keywords in which it was page 1 for google.

Articles I wrote that also ranked high (page 1-3) are still there so I'm still getting some traffic in a round about way, but my actual site that was ranking really well with google seems to slipped so far in ranking that it might as well be delisted.

I did search for site: www.mysite.com and I can see all the pages but it just seems that it's not ranking for any of the keywords. Weird, eh?

Most of my links are coming from article directories and I have some good articles...500-800 work real content. It is a review site so I don't know if this has anything to do with it but my stuff isn't really spammy...very low key.

I know that I had an issue with a social bookmarking plugin (this is a wordpress review site) and there were a bunch of 404 errors on my google webmaster tools page. I have since disabled the plugin.

I also have a "recommends" directory that I use 301 redirects to redirect to my affiliate links. I did set up my robots.txt file to not let google crawl that directory. But this has been like this for months.

I can still see google crawling my site but just wonder if or when I can expect google to give me some love back. I didn't go nuts building links. On a monthly basis I write about 20-30 articles and submit them to my blog that is attached to this site and then to 10 article directories. I don't do any social bookmarking and the site is about two years old.

Any thoughts or ideas? This is killing me! Should I just abandon the site and work on another one and see if it all straightens itself out or continue building links slowly? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
#search engine optimization #delisted #google #keywords
  • how long was your site on the first page?

    it's not uncommon for a site to see a temporary ranking boost for some unknown google reason for a couple of weeks and then drop back off into the abyss again.

    I've had it happen a couple of times, typically for keywords my sites had no business ranking that high for in the first place.
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    • It was on page one for the long tail words in quotes for about three months. It has been in at least the top 3 or 4 pages for the product in quotes but it's nowhere to be found now....

      I did check just after posting and I'm starting to see articles that I posted on my site last night. I guess the google dance is a valid explanation. I've had other sites rank page one, disappear and then come back to the top again. I actually have another site that I checked on just for kicks and giggles and found it on page one. I haven't done a dang thing with that site in almost a year!

      Compared to some of the other sites that are outranking me I can say honestly that my site does deserve to rank higher than them. Relevent unique content and lots of it....about 200 pages of blog articles targeted for women 18-40 and about 100 reviews....warez sites...really?
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    I am not completely sure of what is going on with my one site but I had noticed a drop in traffic. Upon further investigation it seems that my site has been delisted for keywords in which it was page 1 for google. Articles I wrote that also ranked high (page 1-3) are still there so I'm still getting some traffic in a round about way, but my actual site that was ranking really well with google seems to slipped so far in ranking that it might as well be delisted.