De-listed? What happened? No rankings??

[Boodreaux]

Was ranking on first page for over 80 terms  with over 25 in the top 3 and my main keyword was ranked #4...now my twitter account has replaced my website for #4 in the rankings for the main keyword.  I now  have ZERO Rankings for all keywords for my website.  I have no idea what happened. **  Is there anyway for me to check with Google to see why I have been wiped off the map in the search rankings? **

Boo

[Prestige-SEO]

Have you used any link building networks like ALN, BMR or anything like that? not recently but at all?

[Boodreaux]

I hired a link building company and they were working on getting one term ranked.  I hired them for 5 weeks and canceled with them because I wanted to be careful.  Only person I have ever hired to do anything.  They said they submitted me to several directories because I was new and it would be good to get started.  NO NETWORKS as far as I know.

[Prestige-SEO]

Might be possible that they put you on networks and didnt tell you, these networks are getting severly punished by Google, and thats where alot of the rankings drops are coming from.

[Aeronet]

Hi Boodreaux,

It could be a duplicate content problem, when I searched for your text on Google, another website came first in the result and it has all the text from your front page.

[Boodreaux]

Thanks for the heads up....They just removed all the duplicate content.  I hope that fixes the problem but for one page of duplicate content it seems a little severe.  That is an industry specific directory that was free.

As far as I can see my website has been removed from all the terms I was ranking for over the past 60 days.  Poof.

[Boodreaux]

They said they didn't put me on any networks.

[Boodreaux]

Not sure what happened but tonight all our rankings are now back...and we are ranked higher than ever.  We also now rank the highest we ever have for our main keyword as we have climbed to #3.  We also have NEW terms we are now ranking for on the first page.  This has been a very strange day.

[Boodreaux]

Aeronet...I am not sure if that fixed the problem but now we are ranking higher than ever.  Thanks for your input!!! I was scared.