Sudden Ranking Drop from 1st Page

[Osanda]

My client's Website http://countryfeelingholidays.com is experiencing a huge drop of its rankings since Aug 1st. It was at 2nd on 1st page on google.lk for the keyword Holidays Sri Lanka . But When I checked it last it has gone to 20th page.

I really cannot find a reason for this drop . Only thing that comes to mind is that we put a comment on a blog but finally it appeared on all pages because of top commentator plugin . huge rise in backlinks in oneday . from next day we lost its ranking on google.lk but on google.com it is still at the same position where it used to be .

What would be the reason for this ? Could it be a penelty ? What should we do now to get its ranking back ?

[PaulRogers]

I have had a quick look over your website and I would recommend that you fix your canonical issue as this could be influencing your positioning.

You currently have four variations of your homepage, each of which are visible to search engines (www, non-www, and index.php) and have been detected. I would recommend choosing one primary URL structure and then use it across the website and redirect the other pages to your preferred URL's.

What was the website that you got a link from? Could it have had a penalty or been deemed malicious by the search engines? Was the link in amongst lots of other comments and did it feature anchor text?

It may be worth contacting the site owner and asking them to remove the comment.

Paul

[Osanda]

Thank you for your cooperation .

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