Suddenr Ranking Drop
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Hello all .
Im experiencing a sudden ranking drop for one of my websites .
Keyword = Green Tea
Search Engine = google.lk
URL = www.eswaran.com/greenTea.html
This page was at 7th on 1st page . Since coupe of weeks back its moving backwards .
I didn't even do any link building for this page other than doing little changes to titles tags .
What would be the reason for such a issue ?
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I have the same problem with one of my websites. Can someone please shed some light on this topic...
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I am having a similar issue with my site.
Last sunday afternoon, the ranking for our main keyword went from Rank 10 to nowhere and by next morning, it came up where it was. The same thing happened wednesday afternoon, but it is still yet to come up. I think google is rolling out a new algorithm. Though I am not worried about PR, but it increased to PR4. I am sure it is not a penalty, as we dont do any black hat SEO, and only the main keyword is not ranking well, other keywords are doing fairly well and our website is prety much indexed.. I would say, give some time to it and see what happens.
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