: Issues in google rankings I have a new site just over 6 months old and after a month or so, it started ranking for some searches in Google. Then suddenly after 2 months, boom, no traffic

@Ravi8258870

Building back-links from irrelevant contents will degrade your website reputation and content reliability. Do not try to build backlinks. Do concentrate on providing good are reliable contents. Backlinks will automatically come.

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@Nimeshi995

I was doing some link-building, forums,blogs,social bookmarks,directory submission <-- that's most likely your problem, you've been hit by Google's evil penguin and yes it's very common for those who create links themselves as Google regards this as attempting to manipulate search results.

Non Relevant Links

Google now punishes sites for links from non-relevant sites on a big scale, these include but not limited to, forums reply's, forums signatures, blog comments, low quality social bookmarking sites i.e pligg, directory sites etc etc. Lot's of questions and answers regarding penguin on the site.

Unpunished Sites

You should also note that most recently millions of sites that were affected by Penguin have had their punishments lifted, so you might not be affected much so to speak but rather that people have got their rankings back and knocking you down.

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