For the life of me I really don't get this...
I'd say about a year ago I was listed on the front page (#1 in some cases) for the most common Google search terms for my site. Now I've dropped to the second page for "vbulletin skins" and phpBB skins and IPB skins are totally off the map for the main .com site.
What kills me is that MSN, Yahoo, Ask.com, etc. still list me very very highly.
Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=vbulletin+skins
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ipb+skins
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=phpbb+skins
MSN:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=vbulletin+skins
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=ipb+skins
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=phpbb+skins
And the list goes on. I've had to set up adwords just to show up on the side...
Really, I don't get it. I don't see anything that violates their webmaster guidelines. And I have more traffic than the top sites listed, plus I have thousands of linkbacks from the skins people are using (they all contain a text link (eXtremepixels.com) going back to the main page of my site.. I'm at a loss.
I've signed up for Google webmaster tools, added a sitemap and robots.txt.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I don't understand how I dropped from number one or nearly number one to nearly the bottom of the second page or non-existent.
I'd say about a year ago I was listed on the front page (#1 in some cases) for the most common Google search terms for my site. Now I've dropped to the second page for "vbulletin skins" and phpBB skins and IPB skins are totally off the map for the main .com site.
What kills me is that MSN, Yahoo, Ask.com, etc. still list me very very highly.
Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=vbulletin+skins
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ipb+skins
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=phpbb+skins
MSN:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=vbulletin+skins
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=ipb+skins
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=phpbb+skins
And the list goes on. I've had to set up adwords just to show up on the side...
Really, I don't get it. I don't see anything that violates their webmaster guidelines. And I have more traffic than the top sites listed, plus I have thousands of linkbacks from the skins people are using (they all contain a text link (eXtremepixels.com) going back to the main page of my site.. I'm at a loss.
I've signed up for Google webmaster tools, added a sitemap and robots.txt.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I don't understand how I dropped from number one or nearly number one to nearly the bottom of the second page or non-existent.
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