Maybe someone can shed some light on why my site dropped from #3 to #90 in the space of a week. I'm not panicking, I've not been involved long enough with running websites to be able to rely on experience as of yet (almost a year to go on) so I'm just trying to grasp what's going on.
The site was launched in September 2009. I've updated it with original content for the past 8 months.
Over the past 8 months I've grown the site and it's gone from a page 3-4 ranking to the top 10 in the past 3-4 months. In a 3-4 month period it's gone from rank 10, to 9, to 8 and was sitting in 5 or 6 for the past month.
Over the past month there has been a lot of dancing, multiple times a day. The entire top 10 was constantly changing but the top 3 still dominated although they switched positions amongst each other a few times. Most of the sites are 5 years + in age, very little onpage SEO and beatable backlinks. I don't expect to rank #1 for quite some time but this move has really thrown me.
About 2 weeks ago the dancing stopped and my site moved to number 3.
My website runs a free service and I always intended to launch a premium service when the site ranked in the top 3.
The changes I've made in the past 2 weeks are (after it hit 3rd):
1) Changed from a free wordpress theme to Thesis 1.7 so I could redesign the layout and make it look far more appealing. No links were changed and the wordpress structure remained the same.
2) Launched premium service. The page links to a paypal subscription.
The amount of pages google has indexed has not changed, the site is a PR4 and Webmaster tools don't display any errors.
It's been about 5 days now since the site was moved out of 3rd and the top 10 back to #90. It's been around before but never for this long or this far down.
Any ideas?
The site was launched in September 2009. I've updated it with original content for the past 8 months.
Over the past 8 months I've grown the site and it's gone from a page 3-4 ranking to the top 10 in the past 3-4 months. In a 3-4 month period it's gone from rank 10, to 9, to 8 and was sitting in 5 or 6 for the past month.
Over the past month there has been a lot of dancing, multiple times a day. The entire top 10 was constantly changing but the top 3 still dominated although they switched positions amongst each other a few times. Most of the sites are 5 years + in age, very little onpage SEO and beatable backlinks. I don't expect to rank #1 for quite some time but this move has really thrown me.
About 2 weeks ago the dancing stopped and my site moved to number 3.
My website runs a free service and I always intended to launch a premium service when the site ranked in the top 3.
The changes I've made in the past 2 weeks are (after it hit 3rd):
1) Changed from a free wordpress theme to Thesis 1.7 so I could redesign the layout and make it look far more appealing. No links were changed and the wordpress structure remained the same.
2) Launched premium service. The page links to a paypal subscription.
The amount of pages google has indexed has not changed, the site is a PR4 and Webmaster tools don't display any errors.
It's been about 5 days now since the site was moved out of 3rd and the top 10 back to #90. It's been around before but never for this long or this far down.
Any ideas?
