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Just an update.

Our site eventually returned to the 1st position for our main keyword.

The competitors site seems to have levelled out in position 9
There are other long tail terms we'd like to rank for that these are still dominating which I think is still a little crazy based on their link profile. I'd have expected them to have been hit a lot harder by Google?

Thanks to all who contributed to this post so far, I will continue to watch and update this post should things change drastically.

While researching ways to optimise images for SEO and quick load speeds, I've come across this:
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/download

Is anyone using this and are you seeing any SEO benefits?

Hi Egol, I understand why you responded with this.
However what if you have a board of directors asking you, why you have been over taken, what you're going to do about it and how long will it take?

P.S. mine has been that they shouldn't be there for too long as they have used poor seo practice that Google "should" penalise them for. But I have to be honest, I am concerned that if they are still there in 3-6 months time, I'll look stupid.

FYI: I've already searched the forums for previous posts on this topic and although some are helpful, they don't tend to have many responses, so I'm posting this again in the hope of more interaction from the community
So can I please ask the community to tell me what course of action you would take, if this was happening to you?

We have been ranking in position 1 for a major keyword in our space for the past 18 months. Today I logged into my Moz account and to keyword rankings to find that we have dropped to 2nd.

So I placed the competitors website; who's now in 1st position, into OSE and looked under the "Just Discovered" tab.

There are 258 newly discovered links, 95% of which use keywords in the anchor text!
So I reviewed the rankings for all of these other keywords being targeted and sure enough they are now dominating the top 1-3 spots for most of them. (some of which we are also attempting to rank for and have subsequently been pushed down the rankings)

Their links are made up of:

• Forum and blog comments - always using anchor text in the links
• Article's posted on web 2.0 sites (Squidoo, Pen.io, Tumblr, etc)
• Profile page links
• Low quality Press Release sites
• Classified ad sites
• Bookmarking sites
• Article Marketing sites

Our competitors sell safety solutions into the B2B market yet the topics of some of the sites where these links appear include:

• t-shirts
• sports news
• online marketing
• anti aging
• law
• christian guitars
• computers
• juke boxes

Of the articles that I quickly scanned, it was clear they had been spun as they didn't read well/make sense in places.

So my conclusion is that they have decided to work with a person (can't bring myself to call them an seo company) who have provided them with a typical automated link building campaign using out dated, poor seo practices that are now classified as link spam. No doubt distributed using an automated link publishing application loaded with the keyword rich anchor text links and published across any site that will take them.

As far as I was aware, all of the types of links we're supposed to have be penalised by Google's Penguin & Panda updates and yet it seems they are working for them!

So what steps would you take next?

Hi I'm just wondering how specific the targeting can be for an adwords campaign that targets youtube videos.

Specifically if the following scenario is possible...

If I was to promote a car alarm, is it possible to have my adverts show up before news stories of car thefts? i.e. can I pick and choose individual videos?

Thanks

Thanks Tom,

I have looked at a number of other pages and it does seem that certain keywords have all dipped around February (some have bounce back to where they were before) However it doesn't seem to be the pages themselves as other keywords for the same page have moved up over this period into position 1.

I posted an infographic back in April, 2012 on my company blog. 
I added embed code at the bottom, so people could embed on their websites (not many did that I can tell) I also submitted it to a number of Infographic directories and got links back from around 5-6 of them.

The title of the Infographic is exact match long tail search term.(6 words)

By July it had hit Position 6 in Google.co.uk, where it stayed in the top 10 until December fluctuating between positions 6-9. I haven't done anything else to the post and yet since December it has started to trickle down the rankings, in the past 3 weeks it dropped from 15th on Feb 3rd to 93rd on Feb 17th, then bounced back up to 33rd on the 25th of Feb and has now fallen again to 89th yesterday.

Is this normal or have I been hit with a penalty of some sort?

Not sure if this matters but I have the word infographic at the end of my title??

Also when I run it through OSE I don't see some of the backlinks that I can see from GWT.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your speedy response.

In answer to your 1st question, our website sits on Hubspot's CMS which allows us to track the rankings for our main keywords in Google.co.uk

This tells us that we currently have 239 Keywords ranking in the Top 10 and 138 Ranked in Top 3. (Many of these are for our long tail keywords that are less competitive)

Driving close to 4,000 visitors per month to the site via Organic search.

I see the reasoning behind the GPS but our competitors also have these terms on their sites but don't have similar results?

It doesn't bother me necessarily but thought it may have indicated that Google couldn't really place what our website is about. Which does bother me.

Hi Egol, I understand why you responded with this.
However what if you have a board of directors asking you, why you have been over taken, what you're going to do about it and how long will it take?

P.S. mine has been that they shouldn't be there for too long as they have used poor seo practice that Google "should" penalise them for. But I have to be honest, I am concerned that if they are still there in 3-6 months time, I'll look stupid.

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