Sudden drop in ranking google.co.uk ranking
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Anyone else had any sudden drops in rankings this week? Is there an update going on? One of my primary keywords has dropped from 6th to 49th in the google.co.uk search results. Not in webmaster tools to flag an issue.
I have downloaded the links from webmaster and it does look if some content has been scraped and then linked back to us from a large number of sites that we have never sort links from. I have upload the google disavow link tool.
Only one keyword appears to be effected not all of them?
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Thanks - Seb although we haven't recieved any sort of warning in GWT which is odd and it hasn't effected all the keywords.
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I have not seen any drops like this on my sites but I know of a marquee hire company that was at 8 last time I used them (a month ago) and today they are below page 10, so there maybe an update going on.
Without seeing the website and knowing the terms you refer to it is difficult to be exact.
In the past when I found sites that had scraped content from our sites I sent an email asking the site owner to remove the content (this never worked)
I then followed it a day or two later with a letter to the hosting company, with a copy of the original email to their client attached, this worked every time, the hosting companies closed the accounts down (or at lease suspended them)
I hope this helps
Sean
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I believe there may have been a Panda update around the 9th/10th. One of my affiliate sites received a warning via GWT. Mozcast shows quite a lot of flux around that time as well.
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