- Jul 23, 2010
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Hi all,
I'm not really sure if this is in the right forum so please accept my apologies if its not.
I have an established website that purely targets the UK with a .co.uk extension
The site has been running since November 2009 with regular updates and has always performed well in Google. Over the past few months I have seen the sites rankings grow naturally until I could publish posts and hit the first page (often top 3) with no link building at all.
However over the past week or so this happened
Doh I cant post images yet, basically I went from 1000 people a day (dec 21st) from Google to 500 (24th Dec) for a few days, down to 100 (dec 31st) and has carried on like that since.
The vast majority of my rankings are gone, with just a few still sat at their original positions.
Each of the pages I build include-
100% unique content
Imagery
Embeded video which is part of the videositemap
Links to relevant external sites
Keyword density between 2%-4%
LSI keywords included
Title tags are written like KEYWORD - Title, eg BLUE WIDGETS - What You Need To Know
I spent sometime going through webmastertools and spooted a couple of warnings but they have been warnings since I can ever remember
One is that i use the googlevideositemap plugin which creates 301 redirects for the sitemap.
I also have a plugin that creates new pages for comments but this flags up as duplicate title/meta info.
Other than that, webmastertools looks perfect but both of those have been in webmastertools for a while so I doubt they have made an impact.
I'm a bit lost by this, I thought my site had grown to become an authority in its niche with its first page publishing power.
I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to share some advice or perhaps share similar experiences throughout the december period.
Thank you kindly for your time.
I'm not really sure if this is in the right forum so please accept my apologies if its not.
I have an established website that purely targets the UK with a .co.uk extension
The site has been running since November 2009 with regular updates and has always performed well in Google. Over the past few months I have seen the sites rankings grow naturally until I could publish posts and hit the first page (often top 3) with no link building at all.
However over the past week or so this happened
Doh I cant post images yet, basically I went from 1000 people a day (dec 21st) from Google to 500 (24th Dec) for a few days, down to 100 (dec 31st) and has carried on like that since.
The vast majority of my rankings are gone, with just a few still sat at their original positions.
Each of the pages I build include-
100% unique content
Imagery
Embeded video which is part of the videositemap
Links to relevant external sites
Keyword density between 2%-4%
LSI keywords included
Title tags are written like KEYWORD - Title, eg BLUE WIDGETS - What You Need To Know
I spent sometime going through webmastertools and spooted a couple of warnings but they have been warnings since I can ever remember
One is that i use the googlevideositemap plugin which creates 301 redirects for the sitemap.
I also have a plugin that creates new pages for comments but this flags up as duplicate title/meta info.
Other than that, webmastertools looks perfect but both of those have been in webmastertools for a while so I doubt they have made an impact.
I'm a bit lost by this, I thought my site had grown to become an authority in its niche with its first page publishing power.
I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to share some advice or perhaps share similar experiences throughout the december period.
Thank you kindly for your time.
