Rankings Drop Across Search Engines
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Hello! I know this may sound a bit weird, but has anyone experienced any search engine rankings drop after Penguin on Bing and Yahoo as well? I am trying to locate the issue with one website I am doing optimization on and it has ranked lower on some keywords on all three search engines, directing me to suspect there's an issue with the site itself. Thanks!
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Word is about Penguin 2.0 and that's the reason to post this question and start the discussion we are having. Rankings in top 10 keywords have dropped across the board. Meaning Google, Yahoo and Bing have done so as well. I am more keen to believe it's a website issue than simply blaming it all on Penguin 2.0 here. Or simply the campaign to remove spammy links is coming through for this website alone.
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Are you talking about Penguin 1.0 or 2.0?
2.0 Just happened yesterday so that would explain Google
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No I have not noticed any differences on other engines...it seems weird that they would have crawled your site and noticed new reasons to devalue your site.
When you say "some keywords" are they the same keywords affected across engines?
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