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My Site Went From Google #7 to #400?!?! WTF??

by RUSHYYZ
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www.beerandbody.com

Was ranking nicely in Google at 7-9 for few weeks...then bam! Not even on the radar...what the heck happened? This is CRAZY?!?!!?!
##400 #google #google panda #ranking #seo #site #wtf
  • Profile picture of the author sirtiman
    Use white hat seo dude, if you use spam backlinks, your will burried deep at the bottom.
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    • Profile picture of the author cagliostro
      Originally Posted by sirtiman View Post

      Use white hat seo dude, if you use spam backlinks, your will burried deep at the bottom.
      No offsite SEO is White.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamuelUherek
    You want to know my opinion? Google changed the game. It happened to my websites as well. 3 weeks it was on the first page and then slap down to the low pages.

    I think what now matters is the quality, updates and social exposer. I checked you website and there is no blog. It means that you don't update your website. That's a mistake. If you want to prove Google that your site has quality, you need to create a blog where you will publish quality relevant content at least once a week. This way Google will be sure that the website is live and not a 5 year website without a change that even don't have up to date content.

    Also what plays a big role is social media. I would need to work hard to get it up and keep it there. Hope it helps
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    • Profile picture of the author blend
      Here are some reason why this happens:

      Do you have any duplicant content?
      Is this a new site?
      Have you built to many backlinks to your home page?

      There are many reasons, google seems to rank aged domains after the Google panda update.

      hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
      Originally Posted by SamuelUherek View Post

      You want to know my opinion? Google changed the game. It happened to my websites as well. 3 weeks it was on the first page and then slap down to the low pages.

      I think what now matters is the quality, updates and social exposer. I checked you website and there is no blog. It means that you don't update your website. That's a mistake. If you want to prove Google that your site has quality, you need to create a blog where you will publish quality relevant content at least once a week. This way Google will be sure that the website is live and not a 5 year website without a change that even don't have up to date content.

      Also what plays a big role is social media. I would need to work hard to get it up and keep it there. Hope it helps
      I would have to agree...I think Freshness happened...

      On a side note: I really like the concept you are promoting with your site...

      Getting a smoking hot body from drinking beer is a program I am definitely interested in

      This is the closest I have ever come to buying a product from a squeeze page.
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    • Profile picture of the author cagliostro
      Originally Posted by SamuelUherek View Post

      checked you website and there is no blog. It means that you don't update your website. That's a mistake. If you want to prove Google that your site has quality, you need to create a blog where you will publish quality relevant content at least once a week. This way Google will be sure that the website is live and not a 5 year website without a change that even don't have up to date content.
      Prove to Google ? Are you serious ? Google is a bot !!

      Holly Cow !!
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    • Profile picture of the author alistair
      I sort of agree with what you say but I have one site that has been happily sitting at #2 on Google for at least a year and I haven't touched it, maybe once or twice in that time and that includes on site and off site and a rough idea of competition is that the exact match global searches is 8000.

      Every now and then and I mean maybe once every 3 months it might drop to #3 but I do something that brings it back up to #2 again, or it might be that the competition stopped getting links I don't know, but what I do still doesn't involve me adding content or backlinks. It's very strange.

      This is why things can be confusing because all the time you hear most people say you should add quality content every week or every other day or whenever but I don't believe this 100% as it's easy to find other examples, like sniper sites or small amazon review sites.

      A lot of these never get updated with new content but they still stick in the same position for months. I can't say years because I haven't delved that deep but I know one competitor who's been sitting at #1 for at least 6 months and as far as I can tell his site hasn't changed and only has 8 product reviews posts on it from back then until now at least.
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  • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
    I would not worry about it just yet.

    I made an almost identical post as mine disapered from the first 1000 and just came back a day later stronger then ever.

    Its seems Google are making a few tweaks on the fly at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bambu
    OK, without any additional information this is the only comment I can make:

    Google may view your site as a doorway page, i.e., thin affiliate site. Add a few more pages of content and see how your SERPs change. It is a nice looking site by the way :-)

    Is this an old site? If so, the drop may be a result of Query Deserves Freshness post-honeymoon rank adjustment.
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  • Profile picture of the author SShip
    You're site is most likely dancing. Just keep building quality, unique, relevant content and naturally building your backlinks and you should see it come back up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yeeee Ha
    No need to hit the panic button just yet!

    Keep building quality backlinks to it and update it frequently with new posts.

    It should be back in its position or even stronger than ever before
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  • Profile picture of the author hotboy18
    The same thing happened to my site. I was ranked number 9 in Google back in December and my site has disappeared since then. I still continue to build links and post fresh content so I hope my site will come back in a better position.
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  • Profile picture of the author TBInternetMarketing
    Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

    Google dance, happens to thousands of webmasters.

    You might be lucky to see your site back on #7.
    Yep very common indeed. There are posts like this every week on the forum, but don't worry, I also got freaked out the first time it happened to me
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi RUSHYYZ,

      Congratulations, you are this weeks winner of the well known "WTF is QDF" post contest. Your prize, should you choose to accept it, is the knowledge that Google will give a temporary boost to fresh content, and as that content ages, the freshness factor dissipates allowing your page to sink to it's currently earned position.

      This is a common occurrence, nothing is wrong, you have not been penalized, it isn't the Google Dance and you don't need to fix your website. You received a free temporary boost. Now you most go out and earn the higher rankings you seek by implementing a solid promotional campaign.
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  • Profile picture of the author crete
    You haven't provided enough info however I guarantee you know why it dropped.
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  • Profile picture of the author ZumbaKassel
    @crete I dont think you know it right away just because he didn't provided enough information...anyway just don't stop to build links!
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