After 10th August ranking has changed
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Good evening,
I hava a questiong regardin the ranking after 10th August. I hava an online tire shop and the ranking has changed that means I was on the first position on search term "anvelope" and now I am on the 3 rd place.
I have unique content, few duplicate content and still in front of my site there are sites with huge duplicate content and not so unique.
Is it a coincidence that the position has changed on the 10 August or I was affected by Emanuel?
How Emanuel update can affect an online tire shop?
In other city's I am on the firs place.
My site is www.anvelope.ro
Thank's
Florin
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If you know you've got other people's stuff on your site then get it off. Emanuel penalizes sites that have repeated DMCA takedown requests.
But I highly doubt this is Emanuel.
You may be confusing Emanuel and Panda. Panda is about poor quality content...but there was no Panda update on August 3rd, plus a Panda update would drop you way lower than #3!!!
My main site varies between #1 and #3 for it's main keyword all the time. And it's not because I have a penalty.
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Emanuel penalizes sites for excessive copyright infringement, nothing to do with content quality.
The best course of action is an on page audit + content/link building plan based on your strengths/weaknesses.
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Hi Oleg, Marie,
Thank you for your answer. I thought too that some algorithm as changed and has been applied in the same time with Emanuel update.
Oleg, I read about Emanuel penalties poor quality content. I am sure that I have a very good quality content but my appreciation it can be not same with google. I write the content using over then 3 sources and is unique. I thought that Emanuel penalties me for the pour quality content.
Marie, the rankings were the same for over 3 months . Maybe they has some link building strategy The domain is old. The position was ranked by SeoMoz ranking and me with incognito search.
Do you think I should go on with link building strategy?
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A drop from position 1 to 3 is pretty unlikely to be a penalty. I can think of a few reasons for the drop:
-Normal ranking fluctuation
-Some minor algorithm change
-Your competitor is kicking your butt in acquiring quality links
-The initial high ranking was a honeymoon boost (if it is a relatively new site)
-What you thought was initially #1 was actually a personalized result
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Probably a coincidence.. rankings do fluctuate. If you were hit by Emmanuel, you probably wouldn't be on the front page, let alone #3.
In additional, your competitors could have just improved their rankings (and as a result, your's dropped)
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PS I was 3 months on the fist position with no varies in all city's
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