Why did I lose my ranking?

Hey Fred about a year ago i was asking the exact same question, don't worry about it give it few days at the longest weeks and it will come back. It's possible that your site will show instability few other times after that. Just keep doing and if in few weeks it doesn't come than start worrying :-)

Did you ping any of the backlinks that you were submitting? I know sometimes when i get too aggressive with a keyword that is ranking higher than page 5 I usually get knocked off the top 1000. But I just keep backlinking to it and they always resurface a few months down the road.

Also I know that when I have a site at page 5 or beyond disappear on me there is a chance that Google is getting ready to slide it up towards page 1. Some people call it the Google Dance but it can be quite frustrating if you're only running the one campaign.

So my advice to you is too keep backlinking your site as it will come back and those links do count big time.

You may want to take some time while you're waiting for it to resurface to double check your on page optimization to make sure it's squared away. A lot of times you can find something that you missed.

For instance:

1) Do you have an image with your keyword listed as the alt tag?
2) Is the keyword listed in the title?
3) Is your title less than 10 words long?
4) Do have your keywords bolded and italicized everywhere they are listed?
5) Do you have the keyword listed in the H1, H2, and H3 header tags?
6) You have an anchor text of your keyword linked to an authority site like Wikipedia?
7) If it's a blog do you have all your plug ins configured properly (especially "all in one seo")?

If you can answer yes to all seven of these questions you know you're squared away and ready to rock and roll as far as your on page optimization goes. Then all you have to do is keep backlinking like you have been and your site will resurface.

Yeah as mentioned above that is often times what happens when Google is re-evaluating your and usually you'll make a comeback and secure an even better spot in the SERPs. It just takes a while sometimes.

How many is too many articles? I have been doing 15-20 a day.

someone mentioned the google dance, one of my niche sites has been jumping a lot these days, last week it was on page 7 then yesterday it jumped to page 3 and today it's on page 5!!

all that I know now is to keep backlinking and working on other websites as well..

I have a couple of sites that are jumping quite a bit in the last few days also. Maybe Google is messing with the algorhythms again or something?

The reason WHY it happens is because that's the nature of the
internet. It's very difficult to control response in a way that is
predictable and long-lasting. On one hand you have speed, but
it works both ways.

With speed, comes the opportunity to try many things and make
money in different ways...but with that comes the price of speed...
entire websites and businesses gone in the blink of an eye. If it
was profitable now, there's no gaurantee you can repeat those
results even if it worked in the past -- because the internet moves,
too much.

What do you need to do differently? Nothing. You've done every-
thing right. You just need to keep up with the speed and changes
along the way. That's the part I hate, but it's also the part some
people love (and why they are successful marketing online)

If you are banned from the search engines, then worry... If not, maintain your course...

If you are banned, you can make that determination in 30 seconds, by going to your favorite search engines and typing in:

site:domain.com

If nothing comes up, the search engines are ignoring you, probably because you received a penalty or ban...

If something does come up, it is simply a burp in the rankings... Those things happen all of the time...

Paul, your advice is nothing short than horrible. I recently launched a site that initially ranked back at page 72. Yeah, thats right - page 72. Within 3 months I had it at top of page 2, and page 1 for numerous keywords.

That particular site sells a $2,000 product, so in my opinion it was worth "flogging that dead horse"

The so called google dance. If you get first page rankings, you won't lose it. But this happens...don't worry. just keep building links and you'll go even higher.

this is bad advice. you will not get flagged even if u submit 1000 articles and get over 1000 backlinks in a day.

sure you won't get instant top rankings. it will take a few hours, days or even weeks until all the links are indexed and ur site ranks. but getting a million backlinks in a day isn't a problem.

it's actually good and appears quite natural

Do you know what % of times you used the anchor text (exact anchor text) in the recent backlinks you gained?

As if you over do it, you may get filtered out for that keyterm, although from experiments/experience, this is often a short term thing...

Still, best to keep it natrual looking, especially with either new pages/sites, or when backlinks for the first time (or first time in a while)