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Rankings Dropped? 9 Possible Reasons and 9 Ways Out – A SPN Exclusive Article

Sometimes SEOs and site owners encounter the problem of their sites suddenly going down in the search engine results pages for no particular reason, it seems. When this happens, it is often hard to figure out why your rankings nosedived. So, let’s consider possible reasons for and solutions to the problem. I arranged them by relevance, starting with the most common ones. 1. Your Site Got Penalized for Using Black-Hat SEO Techniques Google has Webmaster Guidelines by which all SEOs and webmasters must abide. If Google finds out (or your site gets reported) that you are not playing by the rules, your rankings may drop substantially, or your site may get removed from Google’s index altogether

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Rankings Dropped? 9 Possible Reasons and 9 Ways Out – A SPN Exclusive Article

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Save Big On SEO

Search engine optimization has come a long way over the past two decades. When I entered the field in the mid 90’s most SEO was just entering a few lines of Meta tags and making sure your keywords were prominent on the page without overdoing it. Of course, back then there were maybe 25,000 to 50,000 competing web pages for any given keyword. Today typical competition ranges from 800,000 to 1,100,000. That’s a big difference! Go ahead and type in any keyword phrase into Google, Yahoo or Bing to see what I mean. Crazy, isn’t it

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Save Big On SEO