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I just made a new website using wordpress. Right now this site is 2 months old. At first I find a list of low competition keyword (about 75 of them) by using Google keyword tool. Then for every keyword I make the article.
I made the permalink be like this http://example.com/blue-widget.html
In the first month my site has been ranked for 1-10 place at google for the "keyword" from almost 50% of my url. But since last week url start to dissapear from google serp.
If I have the article like http://example.com/blue-widget.html and I search for "blue widget" the http://example.com/blue-widget.html doesn't show up anymore, instead my http://example.com will appear but at page 10. Usually my site is always showed up for http://example.com/blue-widget.html on "blue widget" in the 1st or 2nd place.
No backlinks from paid review nor paid links. There are a bunch of internal linking I made and every times I create an article I'll submit it to social bookmarking trough BMD. I only publish 2 article a day and right now there are only 51 articles on my site.
One more thing to add. As I mention before I write the article based on the keyword I found. Those keywords are low competition keywords (about 100,000 - 500,000) so I pretty sure my site will beat the keyword. And since I create the website I put the list of the keywords and my site into Google Monitor software by clever stats and check them everyday to see if my site is still on the top of google.
Right now they are all gone. If I search site:http://example.com It's still showed up. The only matter is my longtail url dosn't show up for any longtail keyword already.
So what do you guys think? Is this penalty because I break the rules "don't send automatic queries to google to check my webrank" ? What should I do now?
I've filed my reconsideration report already yesterday, just don't know what to do next.
Will appreciate any input.
[edited by: tedster at 5:39 pm (utc) on Feb. 26, 2009]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it can never be owned [/edit]
No, I don't think this is a penalty. The key is something you mentioned early in your post: "this site is 2 months old." It happens quite often for a new website that early good rankings are excellent and then they go away. I call it the "honeymoon period".
During those first weeks, Google is sort of testing how a new site performs in the search results and watching for trust issues and growth in popularity. Only an exceptional site "catches fire" so fast that it maintains those early good search rankings.
If your site continues to grow and does not trip a true penalty, then gradually good rankings return more stably over the next few months.
