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Guys any positive update on your end? Do things settled for you, did your sites regain previous rankings?
On 18-th of December, a local business site I manage in medium to high comp niche, dropped in rankings on a several KWs from page 1 (3-5 position) to the second page, some of them dropped even lower. Those KWs were dancing around the lower pages and now settled on page 2 with slight bounces every day something like 2-3 positions.
Before the drop, I was going very lightly with the links. I was building only foundational/pillow type of links (the site is 3 years old and has decent link profile). Just before the drop, I built 2-3 web20s and maybe some of the previous links got indexed by that time, nothing heavy in general. The interesting part is that after the drop, I built like 10 PBNs and never saw any movement, it's been 4 weeks or something. The site just did not respond at all.
Perhaps, there is one thing in common with some of you. The site has a booking form in the sidebar on nearly every single page, that form was leading to a subdomain on other site. It is not aff link but if there is a possibility that the algo hit aff sites, my site could be considered in the same category. Before 2 days I changed the sidebar booking to link to an inner page. No positive changes so far.
Guys any positive update on your end? Do things settled for you, did your sites regain previous rankings?
On 18-th of December, a local business site I manage in medium to high comp niche, dropped in rankings on a several KWs from page 1 (3-5 position) to the second page, some of them dropped even lower. Those KWs were dancing around the lower pages and now settled on page 2 with slight bounces every day something like 2-3 positions.
Before the drop, I was going very lightly with the links. I was building only foundational/pillow type of links (the site is 3 years old and has decent link profile). Just before the drop, I built 2-3 web20s and maybe some of the previous links got indexed by that time, nothing heavy in general. The interesting part is that after the drop, I built like 10 PBNs and never saw any movement, it's been 4 weeks or something. The site just did not respond at all.
Perhaps, there is one thing in common with some of you. The site has a booking form in the sidebar on nearly every single page, that form was leading to a subdomain on other site. It is not aff link but if there is a possibility that the algo hit aff sites, my site could be considered in the same category. Before 2 days I changed the sidebar booking to link to an inner page. No positive changes so far.
