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Originally Posted by bdld
for me it seemed like only my sites with first page rankings were affected. i have my theories so what im going to do is change a different thing on each of my affected sites and see which ones get out of the penalty.
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I'm still trying to figure it out - for example, I had three sites on page 1 for a very important term (for me). Two are on the same domain and are still on page one (in fact, one moved up a slot) - they both have tons of inbound links (organic) and change rarely - but aren't targetted at the term, they just refer to it several times. The third site is very specifically targetted at the term and has been #1, 2 or 3 for the term for years, and there's absolutely nothing "funny" about the site whatsoever. And it vanished completely. I haven't had the time to fully examine all the re-ranked sites that got the SERPS for this term out of nowhere yet, but in my first looks at them, I can't see anything that's a common thread. Usually the big changes are obvious; this one, so far, is baffling to me.