Causes for a Drop in Keyword Rank in Search Engines

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I recently evaluated a website to determine why it had dropped in keyword rank suddenly when it was previously ranking in the top 5 for it's site name. After a couple hours of reasearch it was determined the cause was due to someone copying his home page on several other websites. The posts were dated 5 days before his keyword rank dropped which made it obvious this was the reason.

Other problems that can cause a website to drop in rank:

Gathering links too fast
Adding too many pages too fast
Linking to bad neighborhoods
Adding hidden text or links to your website
Setting up Doorway pages to fool search engines
Having your website hijacked by a 302, 301 or meta refresh redirect.
Using an automated rank checker
Installing malware, trojans, etc. that can harm visitor's computers.
Having only affiliate links and very little other content.
Requiring visitor to link to your site for a service.
A redesign that installs Javascript on links for puts content in frames.
Installing Flash that takes too long to download and deters search engine bots.
Another site on shared hosting being penalized for any of the above.
Disallowing your website from search engines in robots.txt

Click here to have your website evaluated for a drop in keyword rank.

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