Big Name Sites Are Killing My Ranking -- Any Advice?

48k per month is a good number to get a few hundred dollars with the right Affiliate product!!! By the way, what's the niche? It's normal for those sites to outrank you because of their Higher Authority... It depends if you have some REALLY good backlinks. Pay more attention to your On-Page SEO which could be a reason for a ranking drop sometimes!

There's this recent thread that might give you some ideas.

Not enough info here to offer any concrete help. Check your titles, meta descriptions, and compare your search engine listings to your competitors. See if they're doing something that would woo the potential visitorst to their sites. It's a beauty contest, after all.

Join the club mate. I had a similar thing happened to me very recently. My website is also an authority website, we getting between 3000 and 3500 hits a day, according to Google analytics. Page rank is 4 on the homepage, with several internal pages ranking at three. One of my articles was a very integral part of my niche and therefore was getting hundreds of Hits per day. The page itself was #1 on Google.com and Google.co.uk, never checked any other country. Anyway, inexplicably overnight it dropped nine places and was at the bottom of the first page on Google. Well, as far as I'm concerned you might as well be on the fifth page because you get hardly any hits unless you are in the first couple of results. I got pushed off the top by wiki how. Now there was nothing wrong with their article, it certainly didn't contain as much information as I was giving, but they still manage to get that number one spot. However, they didn't even have any page rank for that particular article which was puzzling.

Anyway, I've managed to get The article back up to the #2 by carrying out a couple of simple tasks. Firstly, I rewrote my description, I don't think it really helped, but it made me feel like I was doing something positive. I didn't change any of the keywords in the heading because that wasn't needed. Because my homepage ranked for PR 4, I created a link from the homepage to the article. I have another website, my personal site that also has a PR of 4. I created a link from the homepage to the article. Within three days the article moved up to number two position. Whether I will recapture first position is anyone's guess, but it's really made a big difference to the number of visits I get to that article.

Anyway, hopefully this may help you a little bit

Nothing to worry about your ranking if you are getting lots of traffic..But if the ranking fall is lowering your site's traffic then its time to worry about..You can start building some quality backlinks to your site..but not in a lots of number..start building slowly..start from 1..

If you have information site then it's really easy to get real links trough outreach. Just keep building the links and you'll be back. However, dropping from #2 to #10 indicates to some sort of penalty or algo change (hummingbird maybe?)

He said he doesn't do link building, then decides that's enough info. for everyone to make an educated guess.

For all we know he did a major site overhaul while not doing any SEO, well, besides the one CNN link that might happen.

first you should work on page optimization, completely follow the onpage steps and apply on your each webpages, Second try to get natural links, promote your post on social media, if you content is real, people start linking back to you. I am sure this will work.

Start investing in High PR backlinks these are usually the best to get you an immediate boost in SERP. Again HIGH PR not regular ol backlinks.

It'll be hard to beat them on authority topics. I would go with someone elses suggestion and try to stay focused on long-tail keywords, also as suggested, GET THAT EMAIL LIST BUILT, your losing out on a lot by not doing that. Build up a good list, and your Google Rank will matter less and less.

You are going to want to get some backlinks ;0

Donot buy links but make some high quality links yourself on some of best article directories and mostly search for dofollow links 30 such links can rank you high again but seo has to be done regularly to maintain its ranking for sure as your competetion is with big sites ..
SO regular SEO
and do good onpage optimisation for your website if you cannot do that search an expert from here or from fiverr.com or seoclerks.com who can help you out better..

This is real money competition! Big player can invest and invest more money to rank. I suggest you should go to more specific niche.