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More options May 17, 7:06 am

From: JLH

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:06:31 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sat, May 17 2008 7:06 am

Subject: Re: My website drop 10 places in ranking over night.

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Maybe somebody else on the world wide web worked on their site in the
last year while you've been sitting on your ranking? Or perhaps you
were penalized for for the link schemes at the bottom of the page.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6...

Google changes how it ranks sites constantly. And yes it can drop
overnight, in 10 minutes, whatever, once they reshuffle the results
based on new ranking methods or other sites becoming more relevant
than yours it propegates pretty soon.

On May 16, 3:39 pm, planetamex.com wrote:

> Hello,

> I am very upset, the search engine has suddenly dropped my website
> from 1st position to the 11th position, the rank changed over night.
> It has been 1st for more than a year and no changes have been applied
> to the website. Has google made any changes to the search engine?

> Our number of hits have double in the last year. Which should give us
> a good rank.

> What has cause this fall in the ranking? Can it drop so dramatically
> over night?

> Thanks,

> Carlos A.

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