wheel - 2:11 am on Nov 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

wheel, I'm surprised we are suffering different fates. You post a lot in link-building, and your outlook on this area is not dissimilar to mine- and as I say, I've done no worse, and broadly better.

Lol. It sucks to be me, that's for sure :).

I've been lax - but I knew that already. I had the backlinks and site to beat my competitors, but not to absolutely forever guarantee my dominance. Getting shoved to page 5 for that term showed me that.

No big deal really. As I previously posted I'm working on a variety of things to dramatically increase my content as well as dramatically increase the number of large authority backlinks I have in my niche.

Google bug or not, and despite the impact on me, my interest in the cause is mostly incidental - like many of the things I test. All this has done is exposed a weakness that I was already aware I had. It hasn't changed my strategy of simply building enough content and backlinks that I can't be knocked off, no matter what.

Unfortunately opening a new office, learning sales myself, hiring and training new sales staff, trying to diversify my online presence through multiple sites and a million other things have kept me from focusing on shoring up the foundations of my main site.