Till August 13, 2007, I did have a decent SERP in Google, but the next morning all of the sites disappeared from the top places. No where in the top 20..or even top 40. Even the blog results disappeared overnight. What could be the reason?
That was the issue when Google Webmaster tool reported that the site has been crawled on Aug8. But today when i checked out the same, the last crawled date was on Aug13. Interestingly from Aug13th onwards, I'm facing this problem.
Last week may be on Aug6th or so ... I've changed the images in my site something like from kaspersky.jpg to kaspersky-internet-security-suite-graphic.jpg .
Is this anything to do with the fall of SERP? Except this change i've nothing added or deleted.
Please help me in this regard.
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salsalero posted this at 21:05—21st August 2007.
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I have experienced something similar.
I had a no1 ranking for a keyowrd in Google and then I changed something on the page. My site went from the no1 position to nowhere
Megan posted this at 21:10—21st August 2007.
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Ummm.... those image names could be seen as keyword stuffing.
Which site are you talking about? If you give me the URL I'll take a look at your linkbacks and the site structure and see if I can spot anything. What happens when you do a site: search? Are you still indexed? It's important to know whether you're banned or just in the supplementals. Annoying that they took out the supplementals label in the serps so you can't tell if you are or not.
There are a couple of possibilities here. Google obviously has a problem with something you're doing on or off the site. It could be that you've got duplicate content issues, that you're doing some keyword stuffing or something like that, or it's devalued the very backlinks that got you those rankings in the first place. Does the site have a varied link profile or does it get most of it's backlinks from one type of source? (For example, if you were doing a lot of reciprocal linking Google could have detected that and devalued those links. Then your site no longer has much link value being passed to it and the rankings fall).
If you don't think any of that is the case you could wait a little while and see if the rankings re-adjust.
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markov posted this at 02:49—22nd August 2007.
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Thank you Megan for a quick review.
The url is http://www.onlinedownloads.org
The site is not banned.
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Hostnetric posted this at 14:49—25th August 2007.
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This can also happen during updates to Googles PR system. It has happened to a few people this month alone and is seen in discussion on other forums as well. In fact this has been a problem with Googles system for some time now and can unfortunately affect sites that normally have a good serp for a few days. Once their system is fully updated you normally see your sites serp bounce back to normal or in some cases your serp is better. The bad part of this is the loss of traffic during this downtime and not much can help you feel better about this situation. I hope it works out for you.
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Megan posted this at 22:07—25th August 2007.
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How long did you have the original rankings for until the Aug. 13th drop? Sometimes things move around a bit and, like the previous poster said, your rankings may bounce back.
I didn't see any obvious problems with your site itself (someone with more SEO knoweldge than me might be able to point some things out though!) except that a lot of your internal links are pointing to subdomains. I don't really know much about how Google handles subdomains but it could be causing problems with distributing link value.
I also notice problems with your inbound links. They are all from the same few sites, and mostly forum signatures. None of these are particularly valuable links, and Google also could be devaluing some of them after finding too many from the same site. They know that too many links from one domain are often not natural (editorially given based on merit - instead, these are usually site-wide link exchanges, bought links, or forum signatures).
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Hostnetric posted this at 00:48—26th August 2007.
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That is true. Google now counts your sig links as only one when dealing with a site such as a forum. You will see Google showing for instance 1400 links, but if 1200 of the links are from the same 5 forums for example, then you will get credit for 5 backlinks. This is why you will see Google showing your site with say 25 inbound links and Yahoo and MSN show hundreds. It is a matter of the weight attributed to forum sig links now by Google has been adjusted to reflect their true nature.
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