Has my site been penalized by google

[Dill]

Hi all

I have noticed a sudden drop in rankings for most of my keywords on kerryblu ,co,uk and was thinking the site may have been manually penalized by google.

I have not received any notification of this in webmaster tools but can't think of any other reason for the loss of rankings.

I have searched the web for info on this but can't find a definite answer.  Is there any way of knowing for sure.

At the time of the crash the only real change I made was adding google adsense to my blog. Could this be responsible.

Thanks for looking.

[Godad]

I got the same issue. After the 8th of May, my blog traffic drop nearly 20%. I haven't practiced any black hat seo method. I saw that few other webmasters also reporting the same issue.

[Dill]

Hi

Thanks for looking.  The problem with ebay sellers is that they take my photographs and use my descriptions.  They often get indexed before me which then makes it look like I am the one placing duplicate content on my site.  Not sure how to get around this.

[eyepaq]

Hi,

It looks indeed like you have a new low record as far as visibility.

http://screencast.com/t/mR2Uu6saTV

Anyway based on the site, size, look and feel, format and niche coverage

it dosen't look like a manual penalty.  There can be a filter in place though - there is a lot of improvement that can / should be made to the site in order to gain better visibility anyway.

You should do a full assessment and a first thing i would do is to remove from the index the thin ages - the pages that you have in the index but you don't rank or receive any or very low traffic - this can be a good start. (that is if your products are not "unique" - as I've found some on ebay with more or less the same description).

There are also some other areas that you can work on to improve engagement, branding.

Just my opinion - hope it helps.