Drop in SERP after using several link checkers

[gouri]

Yesterday, I made a few changes to a site and after that I checked my site through several link checking sites on the internet that looked at internal links within the site and also links that link out from the site to other ones.

I looked at my traffic logs this morning and saw that the number of page requests was ALOT higher yesterday than usual. It was A LOT higher. I think each time the site was accessed by a link checking website it added a lot of page requests and I used several link checking sites.

Today, I am also seeing a drop in the SERP for keywords and long-tail keywords that different pages of the site ranks for. I think this might be related to the very high number of page requests yesterday.

I am wondering if Google sees this as something unusual and maybe this is the reason for the drops? I am trying to figure out what the reason could be.

[BradleyT]

The two events are completely unrelated incidents.

[gouri]

But if you are running adsense, is it possible that Google can track page requests, and if it is a lot higher than usual, it gets their attention?

[londrum]

if the link checker doesn't run javascript, then the ad wouldn't get triggered. google would be none the wiser.

[gouri]

I took a look and for some of the pages within the site I see something like

http://www.example.com/scripts/siteUtil.js

Another url also has .js and the beginning of the url is what you see when you click on an adsense ad on someone's website. Can't write url because of forum rules.

I think that means the checker runs javascript? If this means that it does, could this then explain the drop in rankings?

[londrum]

i think you're clutching at straws with that one. if that was all it took to demote your site then all we'd have to do to get top rankings is run a link checker on our competitors every day.
there must be some other reason.

[gouri]

That is good thinking.