BIG DROP in serps- not sure what's going on

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Jul 26, 2011

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So I wake up this morning to find that my keywords all dropped in the serps by 5-100 positions following my last index. Where do I need to start in researching what i potentially did wrong?

I dont "think" i have been backlinking to quickly and my domain is a month old

my domain is proof culture .kom (no spaces)

Any advice is appreciated.

 

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Jul 26, 2011

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I figured it out guys, i deleted a BUNCH of pages from my index and google picked that up in my latest index..they were pages from my old site and i did not want to be penalized for duplicate content..now i have to consider restoring these pages hahahaha

 

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what is VERY odd is that google was not penalizing me for using duplicate content..in fact it was rewarding me very well.....this is VERY interesting

 

navimeister

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Everything seems fine to me. Only idea is I would test removing the footer links. Might be seen as keyword stuffing.

 

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I discovered the issue and fixed it, this is VERY interesting!

 

GrizzlyAdams

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Maybe it was finally getting around to penalizing you for the duplicate content?

 

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it was actually the opposite...i was being rewarded for duplicate content and when I disabled the SERP's from indexing this content, my ranking went down....i think I stumbled across a new technique to test out