iInventedtheinternet - 11:53 pm on Jun 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

Lost 90% of Google Organic last week on one of our country TLD sites. Daily 30K organic traffic dropped to 3K, so Google is STILL sending some traffic. We have a network of sites all hosted in the US. All other sites are fine. One application runs the whole network. Network of TLD sites in each country of a major continent.

Only one country was hit. Our oldest and largest site (4 years). Go figure.

1,000,000 pages still indexed for the lost country site though. No obvious penalties.

I can search for some of our unique titles and find a high result other are gone. That being said we are a long tail site so we have 1000s of keywords constantly changing so not beholden to a few keywords.

We do very very little linking out without a NOFOLLOW.

Emailed back and forth with Google, they said they couldn't see anything wrong. (shut off our AdWords account so I could get someone to talk to me)

No link exchanges or link campaigns. We're web standardistas. Absolutely no black hat strategies. We try to escape out any UGC trickery. Some users could have slipped something by us and we're still checking but its unlikely.

We have a footer that links to each country site. Had it for a long time. It's not an SEO trick, it's a legit navigation so our users can jump countries. Could be that?