Dropped 160 places in google overnight, can anyone help please?

Over time, you’ll get results. But it will take time, consistency and patience. And quality content.

Just my opinion, I am just a webmaster and not a pro SEO.

i still take all this advice on board, its really helpfull, i have removed the redirect and i will simply add a paragraph of text from the duplcate article with a link to the website with the original article, i just checked and i have dropped out of the top 200 for google uk, im going to cry myself to sleep, this is super ****, i spent 4 weeks work getting in the top 10 and now its gone, but i wont give up, im thinking of buying an aged domain at auction, good idea?

What doesn’t sound right is to link an article on one site to the identical article on another site when you own both sites and redirect.

The google bot will follow the link and get redirected and so on and so on.

I just wouldn’t put identical articles on two sites of mine and interlink.

Make the article on one of the sites different. You can then quote from the original article and link that.

But with the redirect you are still sending google for a loop when you link between two sites of yours and one redirects to the other.

Just my opinion, I am just a webmaster and not a pro SEO.

And I think you are saying to are linking to a site that redirects to you, and you own both. I don’t think google would like that, it sends visitors on a loop. Visitors won’t like it either.

I noticed that you have duplicated somebody else’s content on your “win-at-slots” page. Did you get permission from the author or site owner to re-produce this on your site? Just providing a link back to them is not good enough, especially if you have copied the complete article. Duplicate content will affect your Google ranking and also piss-off a lot of webmasters who consider this theft.

HI, This happens all the time – I see a great hit (10-15 clicks) for an hour sometimes and then POOF gone – What I would recommend if you get hits for xxxxx and you are number 10-20 even 30+ create a new (slightly different page) with that exact keyword phrase

Slightly different?

I’ve done some personal testing, 40% change difference is really the minimum requirement to get two pages of content indexed.

We use rewriting tools to accomplish this. We have content editors check the content and verify it’s readability. At the end of the day you can churn content but it really needs to be readable to produce conversions/acquisitions.