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The Day I added and removed the amazon links fit perfectly when the rankings go down- and up again.

Now what worries me and this is why I made this post: The rankings went down again just 2 days after "recovering" when I removed the links.

Is this still the side-effect of the Amazon links? The site got removed and is returning a 404 error but still most pages in the google cache have a link to that "bad" page.

Or do I have to worry about something else?

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It suddenly happened after those links were inserted so I think that was the reason, I didn't do much else during that time, could you name a few things that could cause such drops? I created some forum profiles with my site's link a few weeks ago but I doubt that this caused such a drop.

Hello,

Last week I got the glorious idea to put amazon affiliate links on my website. I didn't put a rel=nofollow on them or deindex the pages they were on.

Precisely I put some reviews and 10 different amazon links on one page and I put that into my navigation so all inner pages were linking to that page.

When Google crawled my page again, I had a 60% traffic drop.

3 days later when I found out what caused this (amazon links) I completely removed the site containing those links and removed all links to that page from my site.

Now my rankings are still down, will my site recover from this or is it lost? And how long would you think it'll take?