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    • technotech
      technotech last edited by

      Hi

      I blog at Technostarry.

      Some 3 months back during page rank update, my page rank went down from 3 to 2. I don't know the reason behind this.

      And now, my traffic and ranking is also down. I am not involved in any bad SEO practices, I don't copy paste and I write original content. I am too confused as why and what has happened with my site. If someone could analyze my blog and look at my weak points then that would be great.

      I would like to get any suggestions to get back my ranking and also page rank back.

      Thanks.

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      • BenFox
        BenFox last edited by

        Without access to your analytics data I'd struggle to say exactly what's causing it but after a quick look I'd recommend you have a deeper look into the following.

        Panda - you've got a lot of ads above the fold on your articles and in places some of your sentence structure is a bit shaky. It might be that you've been caught out by one of the more recent Panda updates.

        Links - you seem to have quite a few links from comments forms to your articles. It's probably worth doing some guest posting to get in context editorial links. Also it's worth remembering that Google have been cracking down on spammy link building a lot recently so even if you haven't been building spammy links it is possible that some of the sites linking to you were using spammy techniques and are passing less power now.

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        • leadsprofi
          leadsprofi last edited by

          Send us your Blog Url, and we can check it, but i don't know what to say, we dont know for which keyword you try to rank, tell us more about, keywords and which google .

          thanks

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          • VictorVC
            VictorVC last edited by

            It's possible that a lot of the sites that linked to you were devalued, thus bringing down your page's value with it.

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            • technotech
              technotech @BenFox last edited by

              So basically you mean that I should do guest blogging and bring more links, right?

              Any more suggestions.

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              • AnnSmarty
                AnnSmarty last edited by

                Some fluctuations (between PR 3 and PR 2 in your case) do not mean anything bad. That's just natural.

                As for the traffic, you didn't mention how huge was the drop in traffic and position? Chances are, that's another normal fluctuation

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