Does this look like a penalty
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southbayboredom
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Looks like the dance, assuming your site is new. I wrote a case study that is tracking my rank progress for a new site.
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...se-study-serp-position-tracking-new-site.html
Check it out.
If you aren't doing bad things, then there's no need to worry. It can take up to a week for the dance to complete though, so be patient and keep building links!
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...se-study-serp-position-tracking-new-site.html
Check it out.
If you aren't doing bad things, then there's no need to worry. It can take up to a week for the dance to complete though, so be patient and keep building links!
thedon23
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What's the color of my parachute? Wait, what? haha
Well, I thought it may be a dance at first. But I have like 50 keywords I'm targeting, and I save them in Market Samuraii. I checked, and they have ALL dropped.
In the past month or two, some private blog posts, web 2.0's, article submissions, blog commenting, etc.. A few reputable services around the forum. This blows. :yell:
southbayboredom
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For my site, all my keywords dropped at the same time, and popped back at the same time as well. This is because the keywords were targeting my root domain, not individual pages. If your 50 kw's are pointing at 50 pages, then yea, it would very much sound like a penalty.
Go check the status of your domain in google webmaster tools. Might be an update there.
Go check the status of your domain in google webmaster tools. Might be an update there.
thedon23
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I actually never had this site added to Google Webmaster tools. Yeah, I just checked out your thread. Looks good so far, good luck
Yeah, the 50 kw's are pointing at 50 pages. And what is even more weird... okay, so let's say I have the following keywords:
- jobs in california
- jobs in florida
Not only did my site drop like 50 spots for "jobs in florida", the page ranking for "jobs in florida" is the page targeting the keyword "jobs in california". Everything is all mixed up. This SUCKS. FML lmao
thedon23
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themidiman
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Honestly I have no idea what the difference between a dance/penalty is.
All I know is that both can last a long time, but I have always come out.
I have had the same thing happen to my sites, especially when you say random pages ranking for the wrong KW's.
I think it is most likely just a dance, as G is reevaluating your site and the relevancy of the pages for the KW's.
You can consider yourself lucky to have never seen this before. And yes it does suck.
Just take solace in knowing that you will come out of this. Just keep doing what you do.
All I know is that both can last a long time, but I have always come out.
I have had the same thing happen to my sites, especially when you say random pages ranking for the wrong KW's.
I think it is most likely just a dance, as G is reevaluating your site and the relevancy of the pages for the KW's.
You can consider yourself lucky to have never seen this before. And yes it does suck.
Just take solace in knowing that you will come out of this. Just keep doing what you do.
thedon23
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Awesome, thanks man! +rep. I guess what I'll do then is not change anything. I'll keep building links, and building content regularly.
It's weird though, cause I did have wrong pages ranking for the wrong keywords on this site a few times for a couple of keywords/pages, but this time it's literally 90% of the keywords/pages.
aStroke
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It's too early to judge. The good thing is that the rankings aren't dropped off the face of the earth. If it is penalized, it's nothing a steady amount of quality backlinks can't cure. I've done it before for a site that dropped over 100 ranks. I left it alone for a couple months and started building again. It is now ranked on the 2nd page for a couple keywords.
thedon23
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Thansk for the feedback bro. I'll monitor the rankings to see if they move back up (fingers crossed).
Let us know if it bounces back!
thedon23
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khanna_rohit
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dosent seem like a penalty, depends on what has happened over the past few months
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