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The Day I added and removed the amazon links fit perfectly when the rankings go down- and up again.

Now what worries me and this is why I made this post: The rankings went down again just 2 days after "recovering" when I removed the links.

Is this still the side-effect of the Amazon links? The site got removed and is returning a 404 error but still most pages in the google cache have a link to that "bad" page.

Or do I have to worry about something else?

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Does google know images, pictures, paintings are synonyms?

It suddenly happened after those links were inserted so I think that was the reason, I didn't do much else during that time, could you name a few things that could cause such drops? I created some forum profiles with my site's link a few weeks ago but I doubt that this caused such a drop.

Hello,

Last week I got the glorious idea to put amazon affiliate links on my website. I didn't put a rel=nofollow on them or deindex the pages they were on.

Precisely I put some reviews and 10 different amazon links on one page and I put that into my navigation so all inner pages were linking to that page.

When Google crawled my page again, I had a 60% traffic drop.

3 days later when I found out what caused this (amazon links) I completely removed the site containing those links and removed all links to that page from my site.

Now my rankings are still down, will my site recover from this or is it lost? And how long would you think it'll take?

Hello,

my site deals with pictures you can download and print for free.

Because people search for it I have several page with similar content.

For example:

picture of dog free printing

image of dog free printing

painting of dog free printing

picture of cat free printing

image of cat free printing

painting of cat free printing

Just as an example.

Now after tracking my ranks I found out that google changes those sites in the rankings.

For example for the kw picture of dog free printing the site for picture of dog free printing is in the rankings but on another day it is image of dog free printing and on another painting of dog free printing.

So those Google is switching the pages for one kw some times and it seems each time it does that I'm loosing rankings.

I'm thinking it is because image of dog free printing and painting of dog free printing isn't as well optimized as the page that should appear: picture of dog free printing.

With the more general kw of free printing it is even more complicated. I get some traffic through free printing (just an example) and all 6 example pages are being shown in the google search results from one day to another and again it looses some rank each time.

What can I do to stop this?