Disappeared off Page 1 search results - why?

[allanjames]

Over the last few months on of my niche sites has quietly risen to PR 1 and onto Google Page 1 for it's primary keyword and was bringing in 100 people a day, 75% from Google.

Suddenly, over a week, the traffic dropped to 10 per day, and my site has dropped off Googles page 1 and out of sight in the search results, taking most of my income from this site with it :-(

The site is all original material and I’ve not been doing any black hat SEO that I’m aware of. About the only thing ‘new’ I did during the previous fortnight was add a bunch more RSS aggregators using Icansoft’s RSS Bot to semi-automate the task and install their Tranlator script.

Googles Webmaster Tools report:
Was crawled today
I am still in the index.
50 URL's indexed - which would be correct
No problems with duplicate content
Sitemap is being read regularly without problems

PR is still being reported on the Google Toolbar as PR1

With visitors down 90% the loss of the Page 1 position is costing me significant money.

Why would this happen, and what do I need to do to get back to the results I had before??

Thanks

[drsimonrosenberg]

Allan, What is the URL? Maybe someone can figure it out if they see the page and anyway, those of us who look will increase the traffic and we may be interested in what you have to offer.

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[drsimonrosenberg]

Allan, What is the URL? Maybe someone can figure it out if they see the page and anyway, those of us who look will increase the traffic and we may be interested in what you have to offer.

Simon
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[allanjames]

Originally Posted by drsimonrosenberg

Allan, What is the URL? Maybe someone can figure it out if they see the page and anyway, those of us who look will increase the traffic and we may be interested in what you have to offer.

Hi Simon, thanks for the reply. The URL is The How To Get Your Ex Back Blog

Let me add to my post above - I may have confused the issue. The RSSBot I've been using doesn't bring content into my blog - it is used outgoing to let the world <grin> know about my blog.

[allanjames]

Still no improvement - I'm still in the 'Google doldrums'

Can any of the experts here suggest why, and what I need to do to recover my page one position?

Thanks

[billmcintosh]

This sometimes happens. I did a quick review of the site & don't see any obvious reasons for it.

Did you suddenly stop building links after building links for a while? Or did you do a sudden round of getting a lot of backlinks at once? Sudden changes in the rate that you acquire backlinks can cause this.

Just keep adding content & building new links at the same pace and it will hopefully come back.

[docw]

Allan,
Check the very top of your page, above the header graphic.

The words:
",which says that your blog is owned by the owner of "http://...com/" and "http://www.....com/server" may be used..."

Check your install and double check that everything is ok for openid.

Doc

[adonaaddie]

allanjames @ Yes i agree with you