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I am targeting The Melbourne Cup, which is an Australian horse race happening here in a month. My main site is www.melbournecupodds.com and its been ranking very very well until yesterday. Search phrases such as 'Melbourne Cup', 'Melbourne Cup 2005', 'Melbourne Cup Betting Odds' and a load of others all dropped significantly.
Does anyone know whats going on? I am reading MSN did an algorithmn update recently, but am concerned at why it would be so sudden. My pages are all 100% web standards with high quality SEO and unique content updated daily applied to them, plenty of quality backlinks and all the rest.
The only thing I can think of what that I did put out quite a few 'mini' sites designed to push traffic to my main site - however these are all unique sites with unique content and all the SEO work/standards I mentioned above.
Something that also crosses my mind is that the official site of the Melbourne Cup has been on a rampage the last few weeks, trying to buy up other peoples domains and basically using bully tactics - although it seems unlikely they would/could have anything to do with it correct? They did buy several domains out that we were linking and had high ranks, but those were removed from our sites as the person(s) running them lost them. I can see this as having some effect, but not this major.
Any help is appreciated.
Here's to more good times with MSN :)
This sequence has happened twice since middle August.
Maybe somethig to do with fliters being applied during algo changes?
