Ranked on second page for keyword; now not within first 1000 listings?

[Tony1986]

Our website www.clientfirstfunding.com ranked 13th for the keyword "structured settlement". After this weekend we are no longer ranking for this keyword at all. We haven't made any changes at all to the site and i haven't gained any backlinks that appear to be spammy. We have held this position for the last several months. I can understand a drop in SERPs but one this drastic is shocking. Any ideas as to what could have caused this would be greatly appreciated.

[dlrPaul]

Receiving an error for that url "<big>dns_unresolved_hostname</big>"

[Tony1986]

sorry i was in such a rush. the correct url is: www.clientfirstfunding.com thanks again!

[moldybacon]

I got a feeling you might have been slapped due to all your duplicate content.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aclientfirstfunding.com

Solution? Make all those pages unique:)

[Tony1986]

yea we're launching a new site early next week. we havent fixed any of those issues on the site due to that. also the site has been ranking well way before i began seo efforts. not sure why we would be getting hit for the dup content after so long?

[Tony1986]

ok so it seems that we are ranking once again in the 13th position. has anyone seen this happen before?

[moldybacon]

Might have been because of the new algo changes. Google farmer update, they cracked down on dupe content sites!

[moldybacon]

Ah so your back already?  This does happen occasionally, but it's nothing to worry about.

[Tony1986]

looks to be gone again. ill be sure to take care the dup content first thing. hopefully, this will take care of the issue. very unsettling! thanks for the feedback ill be sure to post the results.

[Tony1986]

Ok, so it seems that we have articles in our blog that have been syndicated throughout article submission sites.Such as articlebase and the likes. From what i've read these sites have been hit pretty hard due to the content farmer update. This is more than likely why we were hit so hard. I'm in the process of having unique content written and posting to the site also, removing any and all duplicate content. Hopefully, this will put us back in our previous ranking position.