there is alot of good directories, please put in mind the more relevancy of the directory to more valuale it is for you

here is a couple:

• www.dirjournal.com
• Yahoo Directory
• Canny Link
• JoeAnt.com
• Ezilon
• Jayde
• Skaffe
• BOTW
• Aviva Directory

all right

then yes, Google is reevaluating the new content and signals and it will either put the page back or better or leave it at #38.

just wait for a couple weeks to see if the new change is permanent or whatever you did actually helped.

If you cant wait (time is money), then revert back the changes

here is a couple with a lil research:

• http://www.business-directory-uk.co.uk/sports.htm
• http://www.mysoccerlinks.com/
• http://www.londonmmxiiolympics.com/
• http://www.golfshack.net/

Cheers

Dear searchpl,

It will be better to add and verify blog.domain.com in your GWT, and add a separate sitemap inside this account.

Or

5. Shorten the keywords in the url post ie

title: Some Post titles are quite long as they are long tail terms

url: /parent-category/child-category/post-titles-long/

I checked with semrush and search metrics to see certain changes that matches known updates happened here and couldn't find any.

What type of changes you did to the page?

Google my reset what it thinks of a documents if "enough" changes has been done to it .. which it reevaluate all the signals and show a more stable rankings for that document

if the product have a relevant substitute then you can utilize the the 301. but if the product don't have a relevant substitute then 404/410 is the right of doing it.

i might rethink intelligently if the product have too much inbound links to it ... but this is case by case situation.