Say it Ain't So Google!

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Last night I noticed my biggest money making site just disappeared from the Google rankings. It's still indexed but its gone from the SERPs. None of the pages rank in the top 1000 and thats after having over 200 1st page rankings on good search count keywords.

I was inches away from being a full time IM and this really took a big chunk of earnings away. Its very frustrating because I have no idea why this happened. I would feel much better if I new what not to do but I basically follow the same plan for all my sites and all the rest are doing just fine.

Was my site perfect? No, but it was all original content. Offered decent quality, I mean at least deserving to be in the search engine rankings. This is a sad day for me and a day I realize the true nature of this business.
#search engine optimization #google
  • What about the backlinks pointing to your site? Anything risky or fishy going on there that could've contributed to the drop?

    I wouldn't worry so much at this point. Give it a week or so and see where you stand. Somestimes sites drop out of nowhere and dance their way back up to where they were before (or sometimes even higher).
  • Well, one cannot judge their site as "deserving to be in the search engine rankings."

    Everybody here says that.

    You forget about the other people, their sites, and the fact that the internet is
    not static, but dynamic.

    Your best bet is to continue doing good things, but concentrate on traffic
    from other sources.

    Paul
  • Most likely something with backlinks, I'd check them out and try to see what happened
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    • I recently started using BMR which was doing a great job. Id say that might be it but all my other sites seem to be ok and ive been using it on them also. I also haven't heard of anyone else experiencing this from BMR so I don't want to jump to stupid conclusions.

      Now I don't claim to be a saint when it comes to backlinking but jesus my site's backlink portfolio looks like beverly hills compared to most of my competitions never ending blog comment spam and Xrumer blasts.

      Oh wait good news I found a few of my pages buried in the 800's. Well thats an improvement from this morning.
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  • I think this is happening to everyone Google, changed the way we do business online.
  • Live and learn: don't put your eggs in Google's hands... and move forward. If you managed to create/maintain these sites, I am sure you'll find a way to come back stronger.

    All the best!!
  • Quite a few people experiancing the same thing at the moment, Google doing some tweaking maybe.

    Massive ranking changes ongoing...am I alone?

    I've seen a few of my sites bouncing around lately.
  • Google has Hit me too

    You are not the only one mate. We will come back stronger. Hope for the best. Google is dancing, making us dance too
  • It sucks that google can change their algo at anytime
  • Sounds to me like you were doing something wrong in Google's eyes. You do not lose 200 1st page ranks overnight if you are not doing something significantly wrong.
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    OP, do you have proof that your site was up & running the last time Google bot made a visit?

    Site down = ranking down.
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    • I mean who knows. Have you ever tried to read that webmaster guidelines garbage its the most vague thing ever. I mean I do build backlinks, I use blog networks and I use Senuke. So do about a billion other people. My on-site content is almost all unique content. I have 15 other sites all which followed the same plan and all of which are doing fine. 2 even moved up the 1st page today. This seems a bit arbitrary. Am I guilty of something, sure I suppose but just as much as you or the next guy.

      Webmaster tools isn't showing me any errors. The site loads up fine now. Its odd it almost seems like they stripped my homepage of all of its worth, PR just stripped of any sort of SERP power and now all the subsequent pages are ranked in the 300-800's some not at all and the homepage is nowhere to be found.

      To add insult to injury Market Samurai keeps showing me that im #2 for my biggest search term, I was #6 but when I check im definitely not there. Seems to be a MS glitch.
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    Say it Ain't So Google!

    Last night I noticed my biggest money making site just disappeared from the Google rankings. It's still indexed but its gone from the SERPs. None of the pages rank in the top 1000 and thats after having over 200 1st page rankings on good search count keywords. I was inches away from being a full time IM and this really took a big chunk of earnings away. Its very frustrating because I have no idea why this happened. I would feel much better if I new what not to do but I basically follow the same plan for all my sites and all the rest are doing just fine.