Comments on: Help! My Money Site Has Dropped From Google /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/ learning the hard way about making money online Fri, 20 May 2011 03:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Steward /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Steward Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:55:17 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-102 Rod, Right now it is back to ranking for all its terms, but just a few days ago it was in another little SERP disappearing act. For about 6 days it was nowhere to be found for the terms that had been getting it the most traffic and then all of a sudden it appeared popped back up. This is probably the 5th time something like this has happened since June. The site is well over a year old and has around 1500 links according to yahoo (though a lot of these are probably from crappy articles directories). My guestimate is that I don't have enough authority links for the site to solidify its rankings or I don't have enough content. I have trying to get both recently for the site since it has potential to be a good money maker and it is pretty fun to write for. Well see what ends up happening. Steward Rod,

Right now it is back to ranking for all its terms, but just a few days ago it was in another little SERP disappearing act. For about 6 days it was nowhere to be found for the terms that had been getting it the most traffic and then all of a sudden it appeared popped back up. This is probably the 5th time something like this has happened since June.

The site is well over a year old and has around 1500 links according to yahoo (though a lot of these are probably from crappy articles directories).

My guestimate is that I don’t have enough authority links for the site to solidify its rankings or I don’t have enough content. I have trying to get both recently for the site since it has potential to be a good money maker and it is pretty fun to write for. Well see what ends up happening.

Steward

]]> By: Rod@Tri Nations Rugby /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Rod@Tri Nations Rugby Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:23:18 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-101 Steward, how's your ranking now? Has it recovered? Since commenting last time, my site did exactly the same thing - first time I've ever experienced this. I was still getting some long-tail traffic from Google, but lost my main keyword rankings. Thankfully a few weeks later they reappeared and are almost back to where they were. I'm hoping that's it now, but reading Lissie's comment above makes me wonder a bit...! The same thing has also happened to another of my sites, and I'm still waiting for it to bounce back. Personally, I think it's because both these sites are still fairly new - that's my theory and I'm sticking to it anyway! I don't know if the same thing goes for yours or not, but I can't imagine any of the factors you mentioned above having much of an impact, certainly not 10 links in 10 days anyway! Rod Steward, how’s your ranking now? Has it recovered?

Since commenting last time, my site did exactly the same thing - first time I’ve ever experienced this. I was still getting some long-tail traffic from Google, but lost my main keyword rankings. Thankfully a few weeks later they reappeared and are almost back to where they were. I’m hoping that’s it now, but reading Lissie’s comment above makes me wonder a bit…!

The same thing has also happened to another of my sites, and I’m still waiting for it to bounce back.

Personally, I think it’s because both these sites are still fairly new - that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it anyway! I don’t know if the same thing goes for yours or not, but I can’t imagine any of the factors you mentioned above having much of an impact, certainly not 10 links in 10 days anyway!

Rod

]]> By: Steward /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Steward Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:30:43 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-100 Hi Rod, It doesn't seem like the sandbox to me. Looking back on it a little over two months later this has been happening to my site every so often. It keeps ranking better and better the more content I put up on it but then all of a sudden it drops from the SERPs to appear just a few days later. It is really bizarre, but there isn't much I seem to be able to do about it other than just write more content and get more links. Steward Hi Rod,

It doesn’t seem like the sandbox to me. Looking back on it a little over two months later this has been happening to my site every so often. It keeps ranking better and better the more content I put up on it but then all of a sudden it drops from the SERPs to appear just a few days later. It is really bizarre, but there isn’t much I seem to be able to do about it other than just write more content and get more links.

Steward

]]> By: Steward /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Steward Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:28:48 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-99 Hi Potato Chef, For the encouragement to keep on keeping on! Steward Hi Potato Chef,

For the encouragement to keep on keeping on!

Steward

]]> By: Steward /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Steward Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:17:50 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-97 Hi Jade, the content on the site is very rich and very useful information. There are some affiliate links, but this is almost nothing in comparison with the vast amount of content that I have on the site. As of right now, there at around 5800 words of content on the site and over 300 pages index by Google. It is a PR 3 website and gets a fair amount of traffic when it hasn't disappeared from the search engines. Hi Jade, the content on the site is very rich and very useful information. There are some affiliate links, but this is almost nothing in comparison with the vast amount of content that I have on the site. As of right now, there at around 5800 words of content on the site and over 300 pages index by Google. It is a PR 3 website and gets a fair amount of traffic when it hasn’t disappeared from the search engines.

]]> By: Jade@Outdoor Camping Gear /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Jade@Outdoor Camping Gear Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:04:15 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-94 How rich is the content of your site? When it comes to thin-content affiliate sites Google can be pretty vicious when it comes to de-SERPing. How rich is the content of your site?

When it comes to thin-content affiliate sites Google can be pretty vicious when it comes to de-SERPing.

]]> By: PotatoChef /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-88 PotatoChef Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:56:21 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-88 I do not think your linking activity caused any harm. I also went on a small linking rampage for a few of my blogs and got links added rather quickly. The links helped my position on Google. They in no way hurt. These liks were directed at both home pages and interior pages. I have not updated WP yet so I can't help you there. I also would not be too happy about making $20 one day and theb $3 the next. There is not a whole lot that can be done other than keep forging ahead... I do not think your linking activity caused any harm. I also went on a small linking rampage for a few of my blogs and got links added rather quickly.

The links helped my position on Google. They in no way hurt. These liks were directed at both home pages and interior pages.

I have not updated WP yet so I can’t help you there.

I also would not be too happy about making $20 one day and theb $3 the next. There is not a whole lot that can be done other than keep forging ahead…

]]> By: Rod@Tri Nations Rugby /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Rod@Tri Nations Rugby Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:22:57 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-85 Sounds a bit like the Google sandbox to me. Not something I've experienced personally, but have been reading a bit about it lately. Griz and Court are always talking about it. Sounds a bit like the Google sandbox to me. Not something I’ve experienced personally, but have been reading a bit about it lately. Griz and Court are always talking about it.

]]> By: Lissie@Passive Income /makemoneyonline/127/help-my-money-site-has-dropped-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Lissie@Passive Income Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:49:50 +0000 /makemoneyonline/?p=127#comment-74 I seriously doubt that it was anything that you did directly. I know the directories that you've been sending links from they are just too new for google to be even noticing your links yet. I have seen a pattern though with some of my hubpages ie authority site and I believe the pattern is very niche dependent. Google ranks the page - sometimes in an hour or a month - I stay there for a few days - I drop down to say 250, a week/month later I am back, then I drop - this time to maybe 100, this happens 3/5 times - each time the drop is less. Finally I stay on the front page. This has happened to me for hubs I never built any links to! It seems the natural thing for google -to test the waters with your sites a few times. For non-competitive niches I will stay up on the first page - probably because G is scratching for pages to answer the query - but for anything else I don't stablise for a month/year - and again I think this is entirely niche dependent I seriously doubt that it was anything that you did directly. I know the directories that you’ve been sending links from they are just too new for google to be even noticing your links yet. I have seen a pattern though with some of my hubpages ie authority site and I believe the pattern is very niche dependent. Google ranks the page - sometimes in an hour or a month - I stay there for a few days - I drop down to say 250, a week/month later I am back, then I drop - this time to maybe 100, this happens 3/5 times - each time the drop is less. Finally I stay on the front page. This has happened to me for hubs I never built any links to! It seems the natural thing for google -to test the waters with your sites a few times.

For non-competitive niches I will stay up on the first page - probably because G is scratching for pages to answer the query - but for anything else I don’t stablise for a month/year - and again I think this is entirely niche dependent

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