Ranking problem - a gradual year-long slide

[pawoot]

I have problem with SERP result with google since last year. Currently my site have google index 1 million. last year i got top SERP from google. but nearly end of last year. My SERP start getting low and finally it nearly not show up in first or second of page result. I don't know what going on?

Do you have any suggestion or any ways to check what going on with my site? Ban or Low Priority?

[edited by: tedster at 4:48 pm (utc) on Oct. 20, 2008]

[tedster]

Hello pawoot, and welcome to the forums.

A ban would mean your site is not in the Google index. Check the special operator search site:example.com where you substitute your own domain name for example.com. If you see urls from your site in those search results, then you're not banned.

You can sometimes get helpful information from a Webmaster Tools account. If you haven't set one up, I'd suggest it. You'll immediately see some of the information Google has for your site (along with the occasional bit of buggy data) and that can also give you a clue in some situations. Google will not usually tell you "yes, you have a penalty because of ...", but sometimes even that happens from within your Webmaster Tools.

Most of all, I suggest becoming familiar with the discussions in the Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page. There's a wide variety of potential problems and this will give you handle on a good number of them.