The Google Dance Oh What Fun For Internet Marketers

[elizer]

That's the problem... we are never sure of what we are doing with the way google works... It could also be that one of your backlinks has a bad reputation thus causing penalty...

[play2win727]

Absolutely it is normal, and the fact that your site is new is more of a reason why this is happening as it seems to occur more with newer sites.

Just keeping plugging away !

When you were showing the latest posts on your homepage, I hope you were showing only a summary and not the whole post? If you were showing the whole post you would have duplicate content on your site which would not be good. So make sure you change this to a summary post on the homepage if necessary.

But keep on promoting and (change the above if applicable) and in almost all cases unless you are doing spamming or something along those lines your rankings will come back.

Regards



Tim

Maybe a dumb question but how do I get the new posts to only show a summary on the home page?

[vostrader]

play2win727

If you are using wordpress its in settings>reading>For each article in a feed, show summary I think.

[vostrader]

What we do now is that Google sees link schemes as trying to game the system, so if you are using a link scheme, it is likely that they are discounting the links and they are not having the impact you expect them to have on ranking. It's happened to me and I stay clear of the linking schemes now.