Our site has lost significant rankings over the past couple of weeks

[qtasad]

One of the sites I work with is, ukvisaandimmigration.co.uk which has lost a lot of ground in terms of SERPS.

We were up to 12 and 13 for keywords such as uk visa and uk immigration but have since dropped down to 30-40.

Has something changed recently? We know of the panda update, is it this?

[THB]

Well, right off the bat it could be a number of things.

For starters, yes, it could very well be the Panda update as Google has been making tweaks to the Panda update for some time now.

How about your inbound link situation?  Have you lost any significant backlinks in the last little while?  Have you been spamming your site across multiple websites, ie. comments, boards, articles, etc?  Perhaps Google has caught on to some not-so-friendly SEO tactics.

I don't have all my tools in front of me right now, so I can't go overly in-depth at this time.

And I don't know the first thing about your niche to really pass comment on the content of the site.  However, it doesn't appear to be stuffed or lack any legible reading by an end-user.

[AlanMosley]

Your site does not look like a site that would have duplicate content, so i dont think that sit, did you have any doggy links, did you but a lot of cheap links?

Have you had a drop in bing?

[qtasad]

Hi, thanks for replying! From what I can see, our backlinks have dropped significantly! At least 45% of them have vanished. This could possibly mean that sites we were linked to have been penalised, causing us to also lose ground because our backlinks are worthless, right?

[qtasad]

Hi, we seem to have stable rankings on Bing UK. We don't buy cheap links at all, we use relevant themed links for any backlinks that we have built.

[AlanMosley]

If your back links have disapeared i would say that they have been removed, i dont think google removes links, just discounts tham, but i could be wrong