Search result clicks for one of my posts down significantly
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I started receiving a warning warning in google webmaster tools about 2 weeks ago that said "big traffic change for top url". On reading the message i saw "Search results clicks for http://goo.gl/EyhUJ have decreased significantly". When I search google using the keyword "sore breasts" for which that post used to rank at least number 2 on google, I dont see anything. The related post http://goo.gl/vP025 is still ranking well. Can anyone give me an idea of what might have happened? I am totally at sea. Thanks.
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Check out points 1, 3, and 4 from this post
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/beat-google-panda
Point 1 is that where is the content, your content doesn't even start above the fold - this is my first thought.
Point 3 is that Overlapping or Redundant articles are not all going to be rewarded - I didn't read yours to know how overlapping they are, other than you said above they are "related" you might be fine here, I have to say I am not inclined to read more about these things on your articles...more than I wanted to know!
Point 4 is a high ad ratio (I am not sure if this would apply or not)
I would take these things into consideration when I look at those two pages
Good Luck!
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