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.

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