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hey guys, I know there is always someone here asking this questions, but I have done my fair share of investigation and have not come up with a cause.

my ranking dropped from page one to page 2  or 3 last sunday in time span of 4 hours.

After that I read that google was updating panda with 4.1, but don't know why I got hit exactly.

my competition is all clear and some have even gained rankings, and mine dropped even though my domain and page authority increased as well.

any ideas would help. I already checked all the obvious ones (such as spam, links, content, etc)

I didn't think about that. I will definitely try that and see, but it is sad to see that I can not add more than 3 competitors.

At least for the beginning, where every competitor matters.

I absolutely agree with your statement that those sites are just too big to be considered competition. The ones I wanted to add are true competitors, which I have about 8 in the US. I passed 3 already, so 5 more to go

whats your stand on tiered linking? Our site is fairly new (1 year and 3 months) but we managed to rank first page position 6 and 7 for two different url paths, which I believe was due to my on page SEO.

But as it is with everything, I want it faster and better and easier