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    My site dropped in serp and backlinks ranked higher than it.

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    • atohad
      atohad last edited by

      appliance-repair-ny.com

      I recently got some new good page rank backlinks (4-5) to my site.

      After a nice increase in rankings i left it for a couple of day (holiday) when i came back i found out that my rankings dropped dramatically for many different keywords when in some cases the backlinks are listed higher than me for the keyword.

      Any suggestions? should i keep on building links in the same paste, or slow down a little?

      UPDATE:

      I now noticed that the seomoz app has a warning that my homepage is missing title tag and meta tag.

      I'm using wordpress and headspace plugin.

      I recently updated wordpress.

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      • AdamThompson
        AdamThompson last edited by

        Without looking over your site, seeing the links you are building, etc. the best advice I can give you is:

        It's not unusual for a new site to gain rankings then drop down a bit. Keep building high quality links and building your rankings up. 🙂

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        • PreetSibia
          PreetSibia last edited by

          Good. Keep using tools and doing small changes. It will bounce back. Concentrate on good content.

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          • saibose
            saibose last edited by

            You should not be overly worried about your rankings, especially in the short term. Just write great content which users will love and you will see the website come up on searches again. All said, keep an eye on your Google webmaster tools. If your website has been penalized for some reason, Google execs maybe kind enough to let you know about that.

            SEOmoz tools should give you a good idea on crawl errors and on page metrics so that you can keep a close look at them.

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