I am ranking 1st on Bing, 7th on Yahoo but nowhere on Google...What did I do wrong?
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Hello warriors,
Two months back I started an amazon product review site. Within a month three of my product keywords were on 1st page of google and my main keyword was jumping between 15th to 20th spot. During this period I made my first sale on internet and was getting 20 something visitors everyday.
After a month I made few changes which resulted in my being sandboxed or kicked-by-google (still not de-indexed). Please guide me what may be the primary cause as all these took place during same time period. They chronologically happened in this order.
1. I made productreview.php pages using this code <? Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: youraffiliatelink dot com" ); ?> for hiding ugly looking affiliate links.
2. I stopped posting new reviews (or content) on my site. Reason:I was totally stuck with my regular job. I know a lame excuse.
3. I outsourced my link building job. Previously I was posting articles on 10 article directories and creating profile links purchased from Angela. When outsourced, My outsourcing guys applied different strategy and submitted articles on SeoLinkVine and other private blog networks.
4. I went from free to nice looking paid theme which forced me to use 301 redirect and transfer all my indexed and well ranking pages to new locations. In that review theme, review pages are automatically built on http: // sitename.com / review / post-title location instead of http: // sitename.com / post-title.
5. one of my outsourcer recommended on-site seo changes. I implemented them. He had told me that making on-page changes sometimes results in dropped rankings but soon you will recover.
6. As he said I am now witnessing the same drop but not recovery. I waited for 2 weeks. I am now ranked 1st beating all big guys on Bing and 7th on Yahoo for my main keyword. But traffic is as good as zero.
What did Google feel bad about my site? Please share your insights. Is this a case of sandboxing? and What I can do now to get the same results with Google as I got with Bing and Yahoo?
Two months back I started an amazon product review site. Within a month three of my product keywords were on 1st page of google and my main keyword was jumping between 15th to 20th spot. During this period I made my first sale on internet and was getting 20 something visitors everyday.
After a month I made few changes which resulted in my being sandboxed or kicked-by-google (still not de-indexed). Please guide me what may be the primary cause as all these took place during same time period. They chronologically happened in this order.
1. I made productreview.php pages using this code <? Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: youraffiliatelink dot com" ); ?> for hiding ugly looking affiliate links.
2. I stopped posting new reviews (or content) on my site. Reason:I was totally stuck with my regular job. I know a lame excuse.
3. I outsourced my link building job. Previously I was posting articles on 10 article directories and creating profile links purchased from Angela. When outsourced, My outsourcing guys applied different strategy and submitted articles on SeoLinkVine and other private blog networks.
4. I went from free to nice looking paid theme which forced me to use 301 redirect and transfer all my indexed and well ranking pages to new locations. In that review theme, review pages are automatically built on http: // sitename.com / review / post-title location instead of http: // sitename.com / post-title.
5. one of my outsourcer recommended on-site seo changes. I implemented them. He had told me that making on-page changes sometimes results in dropped rankings but soon you will recover.
6. As he said I am now witnessing the same drop but not recovery. I waited for 2 weeks. I am now ranked 1st beating all big guys on Bing and 7th on Yahoo for my main keyword. But traffic is as good as zero.
What did Google feel bad about my site? Please share your insights. Is this a case of sandboxing? and What I can do now to get the same results with Google as I got with Bing and Yahoo?
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