Algotihmic Penality
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Hello friends need help
Site age : 2 years but constructed 2-3 months ago.
Yesterday suddenly ranking for all keywords dropped (even for brand name). 1st page to 8-9 page
Niche : mp3/videos download
One of my competitors also has same problem. (Their site is 3 yr old). Common between us :-
1.Meta description same for all pages,
2.Having nofollow links (Example user landed on page A, page A has nofollow links to page B (download links to file exist).
This happen first time with me can anybody help with his knowledge..Someone suggested me to do a 301 to new domain.
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As you have a download site and the site is relatively new the first thought that springs to mind is the Pirate 2.0 algorithm - http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change.
Apart from that have you had any notification/s in GWT and is the sudden fall in rankings sustained or fluctuating?
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