Good Morning America Appearance - Search Rankings Down
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We had some products on the Steals and Deals segment of Good Morning America. The same day we received a message from Google in Webmaster Tools (below). The message says that search result clicks have increased significantly. It seems like this was almost a warning that they were not sure this was valid. The promotion included a link from the good morning america site on yahoo to a subdomain on our site.
The rankings have fallen a good little bit since and in Webmaster tools, there are no links to our site listed and no internal links and no content keywords for the site.
Is this is a temporary freeze on our site until they figure out if this is manipulative? I would have thought a link from Good Morning America would be great for SEO.
Search results clicks for http://www.justjen.com/ have increased significantly.
This message is not indicative of any problem in your site. It is simply to inform you that the number of clicks that one of your pages receives has increased recently. If you have just added new content, this may indicate that it has become more popular on Google. The number of clicks that your site receives from Google can change from day to day for a variety of factors, including automatic algorithm updates.
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I am actually seeing that after a delay the rankings have rebounded and now are higher than before. The backlinks are now again showing up in GWT. I still think that the warning from Google and temporary drop are connected, but I guess in the long term it really doesnt matter.
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Who is outranking you today that was not outranking you then?
I am betting that more powerful sites are covering the story and they are now above you.
This happens all of the time to light- and middle-weight sites with products that get featured in big time news.
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When were the products on GMA and when did you see the rankings drop? There have been several algorithm updates recently so it's possible that the drop in rankings is unrelated to the GMA appearance and it's simply a coincidence. A mention/link from GMA should definitely be helpful for SEO, and I have not heard of "temporary freezes" put on sites before due to a big increase in clicks. Also, the backlinks and internal links might not have shown up yet in GWT but they should eventually (also depending on when the products were on GMA).
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