SEMrush Backlink Damaging SEO?

[moon-boots]

I did a test recently with a sponsored article for some of my products, including my most popular product (https://www.spaceanswers.com/sponsored/sponsored-wear-a-piece-of-the-universe-with-the-space-collectives-meteorite-jewellery/) and it just so happens that recently this very product dropped from 2nd position to 51+, I have since managed to restore it to 6th position but I am wondering if this article is damaging my efforts?

SEMrush is showing a page score of 4/100 and a trust score of 3/100, which is obviously very low.

Is this helping or hurting my SEO?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Per Google's guidelines, the links to your site from that page should be nofollowed since you paid for those links (not earned them). However, I would be surprised if their algorithm somehow picked up on that and penalized you for it.

How long have you lost those rankings for? Have you done any other promotion? If its been a while, you can try to ask the website to add rel="nofollow" to all links pointing to your website from that article and see if that helps you bounce back in serps.

If you do that, please please let us know if adding the nofollow tag helped you bounce back.

[moon-boots]

Thanks Oleg, I'll do just that and will inform you as to the results.

There has been no other promotion. I lost the rank for the past two weeks, so I'm not sure if this is holding me down or the latest Google updates. The post has been up for around 2 months now, so I think that may be long enough to take effect.

Google loves ripping my efforts to pieces, literally any headway I make, they pull me right back down. Every. Single. Time.

This then begs the question, how does one gain do-follow backlinks organically? It would seem to me to be near impossible.