Huge Drop in Rankings
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I just (this week) experienced a huge drop in rankings for one of the keywords that I was sitting in second spot on Google US. 'What Should I Read Next' I dropped to 82, but none of my other keywords suffered a similar drop. Any ideas?
Webmasters offers no clues as of yet either. I was doing link building through blogs and some article sites, but it was all white hat as far as I know.
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Not doing that, thanks though.
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Thanks Oleg,
So if I build more links to the page with different anchor text and more links to the homepage it should fix the problem? Or is it more of a long-term penalty from Google?
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And as an aside, the links in Q&A are nofollow, so it's not a place to use to build or diversify your anchor text to your site.
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My guess is Penguin - specifically because it 1) a single page that was effected and 2) the anchor profile for that page. You built a lot of links to that specific page with the same anchor text. In fact, you have more links to that page/anchor text than branded to your homepage. I would build more links to your homepage with your brand/URL as well as more diversified links to your /what-should-i-read-next/ page.
Cheers,
Oleg
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