Hi there,
I have been developing and writing to my blog for the last 4 months or so, and have really managed to do fairly well within Google for each of my blogs targeted keywords. I mostly rank around 3rd-4th for the topic I am writing which has seen me receive an average of about 40 organic searches a day, which I'm hoping to keep increasing.
I recently tried to mix things up a bit and experiment with having links to very high PR related sites (such as a Wikipedia, About, BBC page etc) and added it into the footer. The next day, I didn't receive any organics.. and this has occurred ever since. Having checked in the IMT Tools > SERP Checker, all of my keywords vanished out of the Top 100.
Having looked in Webmaster Tools, there was an awful lot of errors relating to the link - for some reason the links worked on general pages - but the /tag/ pages within in WordPress were adding the links to follow the /tag/ in the url... for instance.... blabla.com/tag/life/wikipedia.com - causing a lot of errors in Google's crawls.
Anyway, I've removed these links now and wrote it off as a bad experiment... I re-pinged all of my pages, and resubmitted my sitemap to Google earlier this week. I've noticed a couple of my pages come back into the Top 100 rankings for their keywords.. but on these select few 'lucky' pages that have found their way back, we're only talking 80th etc.. as opposed to the 3rd-4th they were previously at!
Am I missing something? Is there something else I should be doing to try and get my ranking positions back? I'm miffed! :mad:
Cheers,
Lee