Keywords Ranking Dropped from 1st Page to Above 5th Page
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Hello, My site URL is http://bit.ly/161NeE and our site was ranked first page for over hundred keywords before March, 30. But all of a sudden, all the keywords on first page dropped to 5th or 6th page. When we search for our site name without ".com", the results appeared on first page are all from other sites. And our page can only be seen on 6th page. We think we have been penalized by Google. But we don't know the exact reason. Can anyone please help? Some extra info on our site: 1. We have been building links by posting blog, articles and PR. All the articles are unique, written by the writers we hire. It has been working fine all the time. We also varied the anchor text a lot. 2. We didn't make any change to the website. But one real problem with our site is that the server is very slow recently and when google crawl our website, many errors were found, mostly 503, 404 errors. And the total number of errors have reach to over 50,000. Do you think this might be a problem for Google not displaying us on first page? Our technicals are working hard to solve server problem. And if it is solved, shall our rankings be back? Please advise. Thanks.
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Hi Keri, yes, our keywords rankings are back. Thanks for asking
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Hi Melinda, I see your site showing as the first result for a query of your domain name without the .com in Google. Have you regained some of your rankings yet?
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Deep links with your brand name shouldn't hurt too much but if you build several keyword rich anchor text links to deep page, too quickly you can be temporarily penalised. if the site is pretty new as well it is always a good idea to kick off with branded links to your home page. Keep it all natural. Don't forget that Rand has been sayinf for quite a while now that brand is super important and there has been definite brand bias recently in the serps. Build steadily!!!!
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Hallam, thanks for the response. Site loading speed is indeed the biggest problem currently. We do have built a lot of links using our brand name. I don't know why this happend. Thanks again!
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Hey there - I couldn't even get on your site...it was taking so long to load! I guess it could have been down to pointing to many keyword rich links to deep pages that have no branded links. i have seen this happen a couple of times. Without getting on the site I couldn't say for sure. Just an idea!
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