Website hit by a sharknado

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All the ranking posts on one of my websites went from being ranked in top 5 to 145+. One of those posts was making me decent money. How do I confirm what happened? I never blasted links or any of that crap. Just built backlinks manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author ITSMARTIE
    have you logged into your webmaster tools to see if you got any messages there
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by ldiaz117 View Post

    All the ranking posts on one of my websites went from being ranked in top 5 to 145+. One of those posts was making me decent money. How do I confirm what happened? I never blasted links or any of that crap. Just built backlinks manually.
    First things first.

    When did this happen, and how long as it been down for?
    You've already confirmed what happened, your site tanked.
    You can build crap links manually as well as automatically.

    But let's just start with, When did this happen, and how long as it been down for?. Before anyone jumps to conclusions about anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author ldiaz117
    I noticed the new rankings yesterday so within past few days as i remember checkung them within the last few days. No messages in webmaster tools. This seems to be the only site affected. Bing rankings stuck so only google.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by ldiaz117 View Post

      I noticed the new rankings yesterday so within past few days as i remember checkung them within the last few days. No messages in webmaster tools. This seems to be the only site affected. Bing rankings stuck so only google.
      No need to sweat yet then. Wondering if your site was just benefiting from query freshness rather than quality linking. If its a fairly new site, that might be the case. But I wouldn't go running around pulling my hair out just yet. Shit like this happens sometimes, just breath and wait it out a while.
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  • Profile picture of the author ldiaz117
    Okay will do. I'll post back in a few days
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  • Profile picture of the author linkbuildr
    Building backlinks manually is spamming and against Google's TOS.
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