Not ranking for anything but business name since 8 days

[luckyseo]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone is having the same issue and if someone can maybe assist me in finding out what is wrong.

On 8th Oct 2010, Google has removed all rankings for my website for all keywords except for my business name / domain name.

My website ranked well for over 20 keywords and suddenly all ranking is gone. I haven't made any changes to content or meta keywords. I am puzzled as to why google would remove all ranking.

Please help.

lucky

[SEOPTI]

It could be a -950 reranking penalty or a -50 backlink spam penalty. Where do you see your rankings?

[Planet13]

...or a -50 backlink spam penalty...

Do these really exist? Because if they do, I would love to do it to my competitors.

[tedster]

Welcome to the forums, luckyseo.

Have you checked to see if your pages have been hacked, so that your site now has parasite links that are cloaked for only googlebot to see? This can definitely cause the kind of rankings loss you are reporting.

Google has a "Fetch as googlebot" tool in WebmasterTools that is the easiest way to check a page for this kind of trouble.