: Website dropping 7 pages low in 1 week I just encountered, that my webpage dropped 7 pages low on google in just 1 week. How is that even remotely possible? I didn't change anything regarding

@Cofer257

It's very common for a site's rankings to go up and down, but 7 pages does sound a bit excessive. (I'm assuming you definitely mean 7 pages i.e. ~70 places, not just 7 places). It's also very unlikely that 70 other sites will have suddenly made huge improvements to their SEO.

The reasons I have seen for most sites is a hacking. Check your pages, particularly your page source, to make sure it's what should be displayed. Log into Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any messages about possible hackings or spam on your site.

Another reason, although unlikely to make a huge difference in one week, it that Googlebot is having trouble accessing the site. This could be a server problem or maybe even a misconfigured robots.txt. Check your site on DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com and WebPageTest.org, and check the robots.txt section in GWT.

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@Sent6035632

Your position on google can change hourly. Stuff updates non stop.

As mentioned, their ranking algorithms can change, other sites don't stop competing to top spots, etc. You're likely to always go up and down unless you're the master authority for your keywords at which point it would be harder to knock you off the top.

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@Sarah324

This is not uncommon. It's hard to say specifically what this has happen to your home page but here's some possibilities (and it may be more then one of these):

1) It's a temporary drop while Google processes a bunch of information about your site and the site around yours. This drop may last a few days or a few weeks.

2) Incoming links to your site have been removed, de-indexed, nofollowed, or devalued.

3) The pages ranking ahead of you got more links or higher value links.

4) The pages above you improved their on site SEO including adding more content to your website which links back to their home page, better internal linking, better semantic markup, etc.

Don't go and do anything rash because of this. Keep adding content to your website (if possible) and seeking incoming links from related websites.

FYI, meta tags and page views do not affect your rankings at all.

Edit:

Have you checked Google's Webmaster Tools to see if there are any messages for you from Google? They do report serious problems there. It's worth a short to look.

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