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Thanks - sounds like you found it. Since the last OSE update, I've been getting quite a few more links, all from relevant sites, but they're from small, low authority sites and a handful of big on-topic message boards (none are astroturfed- they're legit links).

That's what's so frustrating - as the content  and backlinks were increasing, google traffic was as well - quite predictably, in fact. And it seemed like good legit traffic. Then bam - nothing.

Hopefully it will clean up soon.

It's an online magazine/blog sort of site (not on a blog platform, but same sort of content). All original content (articles of about 700 words, plus some downloadable pdfs) related to the shooting sports industry. Vistors would be predominantly from the US, plus a smattering from New Zealand, Austrailia, and western Europe. Most any traffic form a part of the world without liberal gun laws would be suspect. Going on two days now with no ranking. No messages on Webmaster tools.

The only other thing I can think of is that there are a handful of Amazon affiliate links on the site, but nothing major. Literally about 3 links on the entire site.

I am hosting DNS on Cloudflare, but other sites I have hosted there have not been hit like this.

I'm hoping this is just a blip that will be corrected soon, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.

I've got a small, 3 month old site that was ranking for a few low-competition keywords. Then, yesterday, it dropped out of the rankings almost completely. The only way to find it is to google the URL/site name, and then it does come up. There are pages in the index, they're just not ranking like they did two days ago. I'm not doing anything black hat or even slightly shady - just writing articles and clean link building.

Is this a normal part of the Google process? I've never seen it happen on any other sites I've been involved with.