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Rankbuilder devalued ALL my sites

by peanutspro
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I bought Rankbuilder and started to use it on a few of my sites, very non-agressively. I was not trying to build hundreds of backlinks a day or anything like that. I would put up 25-30 links up for each site then move on to another site. Only doing about 20 links a day total across all my domains.

After about two weeks the sites I was using it on all dropped out of the serps along with every other site on my hosting account. One site that ranked number one with over 400 visitors a day dropped off the serps altogether, although it is now back to position 10.

About half my sites have returned to the serps but no where near their previous rankings. Many of my sites that were at least on page one before are now page 2 or 3. And they seemed to have settled there.

This really ticks me off because I spent months getting these sites to page one and was working towards moving them into one of the top 3 spots.

3 sites that I wasn't using Rankbuilder with at all already had the number spot but now have been reduced to like number 5 or 6.

Anyone know how to undo this? At first I thought it just was the dance, but things seem to have setted out.

Thanks
#devalued #rankbuilder #sites
  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    Keep building links and have patience. Keep doing it for at least 3 months and see how it works out. Can't hurt, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
    I am wary of using any system to get backlinks. Best to get them one at a time for long-term growth. I know many if not most here will disagree with me on this point.
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  • Profile picture of the author topdown
    Are your properties get deleted? please check that your backlinks stick for long time if not you'll see just temporary jumps and after that you will lose your spots
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    • Profile picture of the author Ben Armstrong
      The truth is that you don't know that it was your backlinking that caused this. There are so many different reasons that your sites could have bounced that you can never be sure exactly what the cause is. Especially with relatively young sites. Google are constantly tweaking, changing and updating their algorithms outside of the major updates like Panda so unless you're certain, never lay the blame squarely on one particular thing.

      Just keep building links consistently and see how you go. I've had my sites jump around like crazy without any particular reason. Could have been a number of factors. I just kept improving and updating my content, building links and I keep moving up the serps, despite completely dropping off the charts every now and again.
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