Thread: Massive search result drop!

For some reason all of a sudden my site has dropped from 43 to 234 in YAHOO! UK search results?

I haven't done anything new to the site or changed it since the drop in placement. Does anyone know why this would happen?

I am still the same place (11th) in MSN search results so not sure why it's just yahoo. I have also never been able to find myself in the Google results at all after 5-6 months.

I am currently trying to build up reputable backlinks and also in the process of writing some articles to submit but I know these things take time to take effect, however I am doing these things to improve my listing place and have had a bit of a shock seeing me drop to 234 instead of up! Any advice would be appreciated...

The fact that you haven't done anything to the site to cause it to drop may be exactly why it has dropped.

Yes, this is pretty much the reason why the site search results dropped , plus Google and Yahoo search engines are the most common and used therefore more and more updates are going on every day. every hour, minute or even seconds.

these updates may have similar contents, keywords with your site's tags, meta tags.. causing it to be overridden.

While on the MSN search results there are lesser keywords, contents matching your website.

submitting your site on other sites and blogs may speed up the ranking process a bit. However, it is still a lot of work to do.

Yahoo Search results are hugely based on activity IMO , i have aload of auto updating Blogs and yahoo loves them but the downfall of that is google hates them because they are RSS feeds.

If i was you i wouldnt worry about why your site dropped from 47th to XXX and wonder why your not in google ? , 47 place in yahoo wont be bringing you any traffic , my sites are listed at 1 - 5 and they dont get anything worth shouting about