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Fair enough.  One thing I noticed is that WooRank mentions Page Rank several times.  Isn't Page Rank pretty much dead now or soon to be phased?  When I was referring to link juice I meant it in terms of Page Authority juice if you will, and if there is such a thing?  Thanks!

My money site's rankings was very stable before the person I was working created backlinks to his own sites on my mini PBN which were primarily only pointing to my money site.  So since he added the backlinks to his sites on my mini PBN my rankings were very stable and solid.  This was about a month ago.  I believe this is a major contributing factor to the drop of my rankings seeing as you mentioned that link juice gets dispersed if there are more links outgoing.

The only other thing that was changed was I added one paragraph of new text and while this may have a slight affect on things, am I correct in thinking that it's more likely the scenario above that had a greater effect?  I hope it makes sense now.

Thank you very much for your informed response.  I will read that article.
The reason I asked this question is because about a month ago, someone I worked with at that time added links to several of my blogs pointing it them to his money site, and recently as of today I noticed that my site is substantially dropping rankings.  I believe this is the cause and so I will remove those links.

The only change I made that may have affected the sites ranking was just a paragraph of new content, that's all.  I believe that a paragraph of content would not result in dropped rankings.  Am I correct in thinking this?

Much appreciate your feedback.

Hi, I'm not sure how PA DA exactly works when the goal is to create backlinks to your site in order to have the most impact on passing PA DA juice (if there is such a thing) to ones money site.

For example let's say you have a blog and the PA is 40 DA is 30.  Let's say I create a backlink pointing to my site on the homepage of this blog, in which I desire better rankings for, and the links I created are only 1-3 outgoing links on this post which is again on the homepage.  Then say in a months time, I want to add another post on the homepage (so the 40 PA and 30 DA stays the same) creating a backlink to one of my other money sites.  Does adding this second round of backlinks result in sending less juice to the first?  This is what I want to know.

Thank you!

Hi Christy, it's not resolved yet, I'm still seeking help.  My rankings are going lower because of this daily and I don't know what to do.

Hi Tom,

I just noticed your reply here, somehow I didn't get the email update.  That would be great if you can find something.  I checked my PM box and it's empty as of now.

Thanks

Hi Danny,

Thanks for your reply.  I checked the SEO plugins Yoast and Seopressor both which are active and they are not set to have anything to do with sitemaps as far as I can tell.

Sitemaps

Google XML sitemaps plugin is handling the sitemaps.  I do have two sitemaps submitted for the site however, one in the form sitemap.xml and the other sitemap.xml.gz both of which are identical just in different format.  Could the two sitemaps be the cause of this problem?  The other competitors are not having this issue, only my site is being affected.

Whenever google shows my site with the shortened form the site shows with substantial loss in rankings, however when it's in the normal descriptive longer form (not that long at all and doesn't require breadcrumbs or anything like that) it ranks well, which is great but it doesn't last long.

Permalinks
The permalinks are set to the correct setting as such http://example.com/sample-post/
Caching

Can you elaborate on this and what I should look for?

URL Length

The length is not long and my competitors have the same length or longer without the problem I'm having.  This is an example length and it's no longer than this. http://example123.com/test-that-this-the-the-example/

Appreciate your insights and feedback. please let me know

Hi Tom, I sent you a PM with the url and info, please let me know what you think.

Oh I see, sorry about the confusion, I made the URL up and I guess it happens to work at the same time.  I will PM  you now.

Hi Tom, thank you for your reply, however please note as I stated the flowers.com reference was just an example, it's not my site.  I think that would probably change your advice?

Hi there,

I'm experiencing a problem where google is pick and choosing different links structures to rank my Wordpress site for my main keywords.  The site had pretty good #1 rankings for a long time but recently I noticed Google is choosing to rank the page in one of two ways.  Let me just say that the original way where it held good rankings looked like this for example: flowers.com/the-most-beautiful-wedding-bouquets/ this is just an example it' is not my site.

And when google decides to switch it up it uses this link structure:flowers.com > weddings (this still points to this link flowers.com/the-most-beautiful-wedding-bouquets when I hover my mouse over it) however this link structure that never appeared before and now does, usually has much lower rankings.  Please note it's not both link structures being ranked at the same time for the keywords.  It's one or the other that google is currently alternating in ranking and I believe it's hurting the sites position.
I'm not sure if this is a wordpress settings thats gone wrong or what the problem is but I do know when shows the expanded and descriptive link structure flowers.com/the-most-beautiful-wedding-bouquets  the rankings are higher and in 2nd place.  I'm hoping by rectifying this I can regain back my position.

I'm very grateful for any insight you could offer on why this is happening and how I could fix it.  Thank you.

PS Wordpress site has several SEO plugins