Hi John

We've been on page 3 for the search term 'jewellery' for about 18 months and
moved about from pages 2-4 over that period, sometimes disappearing for a
few days but usually popping back up again in roughly the same place (I can
live with that). About a week ago we dropped to page 12 overnight, then
page 15, and currently are on page 26. No idea why. No changes made by us,
no switch in hosting (we are being hosted by Clara.net - don't know of them
doing anything bad recently unless they have suddenly upset Google). Only
thing I have noticed is that many of our backlinks pages seem to have lost
ranking, again for no apparent reason.

I'm at a loss to explain what's going on. I'm in no way an SEO expert but
was quite pleased with our performance for this search term over the last
couple of years and had the view of if it ain't broke don't fix it. I can
only assume that Google have yet again changed their criteria or algorithms
in some what that has now meant we have fallen foul of some hidden rule or
unknown pitfall.

If anyone else has any idea what's going on or what we may have done or not
done, I'd be grateful for the input as well.

Ian Middleton
www.argenteus.co.uk

"John Cluster" <John_Cluster@noaddress.noway> wrote in message
news:Fd9bi.15865$296.11315@newsread4.news.pas.eart hlink.net...
> Anyone noticed unexpected drop in Google search results? I have been in
> the top 10 on all major key terms for years. I am now in the 50-60's on
> the same key terms this morning. I have recently changed the hosting
> service, everything else remains the same. I don't think changing the
> host can trigger this decline. By the way, this host provides home for
> some adult websites as well. If an innocent site (like mine) shares a
> server with "bad guys", can it possibly affect my standing with Goodge?
> Please speak up.
>