The "Minus Thirty" Penalty?

Senator · Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

Hello everyone,

I just got my site rank #31 on its own domain name and bunch of keywords/phrases I usually watch were bumped from #1 to precisely #31. Those #2 through #10 are sort of all over the map but generally within the first 60 results.

Does anyone have some experience with this? What would the respectful audience here think a most likely reason for such penalty is? What do you suggest as the best strategy to fix this?

There has not been any major redesign recently, just routine adding pages here and there. Some unique, some syndicated industry-related content.

Thanks for any idea or comment!

dcz · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:53 am Post subject: Re: The "Minus Thirty" Penalty?

Well, first thing to do is wait and see it this stays like this. I'd wait a week or so before I'd take such changes more seriously.

Anyway, I don't think we could talk about a minus 30 penalty. I'd say it's more a coincidence if many search result positions dropped the same.

The important thing that matters here, is why such a drop.
Do you have new or newly optimized challengers on these queries ?
What about you web-site's activity, content and backlinks, still growing ?

As said in this post, if the results stays stable, I'd take this as a occasion for a complete SEO look-up Wink

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