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

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

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

For the encouragement to keep on keeping on!

Steward

I have taken a look at the websiteoutlook.com report for one of my sites and have to say that it is fairly inaccurate estimate of a sites earnings. It is off by around 80% of the actual value. Just an fyi.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steward

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

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.coffeedetective.com

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…