Here is what I did :
I had an internal page of my website that had 2 external links ( One on a PR 4 and one N/A which was a / links page ) ( no internal link ) and was ranking on the 1 st page of google a specific keyword.
what I did is ask for the links to be removed ( which they were ) and instead of linking to my internal page have the links to my homepage.
Here is what occurred :
My homepage bumped from the 20 th page of google to the 1 st page for a few days and is currently in the 3 rd page of google...
However my internal page moved up 1 spot in the ranking of the 1 st page of google... and this is where I don't understand what is going on ? This page doesn't have any more links ( it is not a competitive keyword but still... ) and it is ranking higher than when it used to have links...
so what I am wondering if the link on the / link page was penalizing me ?
I think that overall I understand how to rank a webpage in the first 20 results of google ( I know it is not good enough ) but what I am trying to figure out is what is missing to get from 8 th position to 1 st.
