Great Examples of Why Your Google Rankings May Drop

SEOBook.com published a great list of why your rankings may drop. To recap, any of these may cause a drop in rankings.

• Too much similar anchor text.
• Page too aligned with keyword term.
• A web site may scrape your content.
• Site too aligned with a keyword term.
• Too many reciprocal links.
• Duplicate Content
• Not in a Community
• Few Links and Non-Fresh Links
• Manual / Automatic Penalties (of course that is usually caused by the above).

In the past we have experienced the scraping, duplicate content, similar anchor text, and aligning a site too well with a keyword phrase before on various web sites. Probably the most common drop is due to duplicate content and recently a crack down on reciprocal links.