A possible hit by panda
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Hi there, on the panda update a few weeks ago i noticed i dropped 8 places for a very competitive keyword.
All my content in the site is unique and quality. Its also not published elsewhere.
I think the update did knock this one keyword down for me - no others got hti though. Perhaps the landing page got it? too many mentions of the keyword? however i didn't think i spammed it on the page, perhaps jsut mentioned once or twice - any ideas?
Any help aprpeciated
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Hiya, well i saw it go from 12th to 20th - this is a very competitive keyword. The landing page is my homepage. I didn't see any other target keywords go though.
I saw this happen about 8pm Friday last week (gmt).
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Hey Paul
Could you provide a link and specific dates of when the traffic dropped and when the rank of that given keyword dropped?
If you browse to organic traffic in Google analytics and compare the two weeks prior to and after the date of the suspected drop you can clearly see which keywords were affected. You can use this same approach to look at landing pages etc.
Happy to take a quick look if you can provide more details.
Marcus
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I might also add, i bolded the keyword on the page once, but other keywords are bolded that feature that keyword - this happens about 4 times - is it seen spammy by panda thus taking me down rankings?
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