Big drop in rankings

no changes to site

[Newby]

I had a tremdous drop in rankings overnight. From #2 TO #64 as an example. Site is not even being returned in some SERP for certain KW. No changes made to site at all.

Still have pagerank.

Temp glitch? Imposed penalty?

[Brett_Tabke]

web map and minor algo shift.

[eztrip]

What is "web map"?

[textex]

Similar thing happened to me.

What is a web map?

[northweb]

Hi, I've noticed a slow drop in ranking over the past month. I've gone from #2 - #5 on a few of my domains.

Is this because the big guys are taking over?

How can you slow this process down? Is it based all on page rank and the pure number sites that point to yours?

Any help would be most appreciated.

northweb

[Radiolabs]

You know what, I have the same exact thing happening. Looking at my stats, it happened about 5 - 6 days ago. I was showing up #1 on all of my key search terms and then suddenly on about the 3rd or 4th of this month I don't show up until way way down the list.

To go from #1 down to #100 is a huge loss. I haven't changed anything on those pages at all. You know the old saying "If it works don't fix it". The only thing that I changed is getting some PR 6-8 inbound links and some smaller links that should have helped because they were in the same context. I did show up #1 on about 500 different key search phrases. Now, just guessing I lost about 250 of those key search phrases.

Very interesting! Hopefully it is just temporary or something small due to a google re-index error.

If anyone knows what's going on, I would be really interested. The only thing I noticed is ALOT of google spider traffic on my stats page this month.

[robertito62]

Second Eigenvalue in action?

[Radiolabs]

Well I don't know if they actually implemented this or not, but, if they did, my business is the largest widget factory of all the widgetters. So if I got bumped to the bottom when I have been at the top for along time, there is certainly something wrong with Google's widget machine. :)

The main search term on my site, and #1 for the last 3 months is gone, which, to all of you business owners = loss of business $$s lost. Did anyone else notice this?

[nicko]

So Brett..what is webmap please?

[Lightfoot]

Perhaps WebMap = fork out money and join the paid for forum to find out what Webmap is?

[plasma]

Hm, ...
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what is web map? :)

[bakedjake]

4x

what is webmap

Maybe this will help: [webmasterworld.com...]

It deals with Inktomi, but you get the idea.

Try searching WebmasterWorld via Google for "web map" and "webmap" too. You'll get interesting results that you should read. :)

[twilight47]

Webmap or not I've noticed Google reevaluating the ODP pages, most likely do to the update to the system a couple months ago. This would cause a major ripple effect to all PR. However, IMO, this will get ironed out over the next few weeks or months.

[shaadi]

WebMap [google.com] is a map of the link structure of the web.