Trampled During the update

[Shoplifter]

Hi there, this is my first post here as I have recently migrated from Jimworld as they have been done for a few days.

One of my sites dropped from about 25 to 350 last night. The only change was that I added it into an adwords program about 2 weeks ago. Last year this site was in the top 10 always for a popular term.

What on earth has changed this dance? This was quite a drop.

It is also very disheartening in another way in that we are playing by the rules with Google. Certainly it seems that for any decent results these days you have to cheat and pad links. Every high ranking result in our terms is spammy, and I won't even mention adult results.

Sigh.

[jdMorgan]

Shoplifter,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

Wait for the update to settle, and then compare your site to the others around it and at the top. Check your back-links, too. Maybe some of those sites have a problem.

Google welcomes spam reports. Report now, and report often!

HTH,
Jim