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Hey Aeronet,

The spam backlinks was an issue but the main reason in my case can be a major Google Algo Update. I see that my competitors lost their ranks too, the index is full of "new" spammy affiliate websites with almost no content... this is crazy.

I am losing ranks each day, can't figure whats wrong...

Anyone experienced the same?

Any tips on filling reconsideration request?

I will do my best...

This theme is custom, someone accessed it and changed footer file.

Thanks again, will update thread after reply from Google.

Thanks Aeronet a lot, I have never thought about this!

It would be great if seomoz ads such ability - to check sites content for suspicious links.

How do you manage to stay safe from hackers? I have latest WordPress & all plugins updated.

Thanks.

What type of additional information?

Hello everybody,

I love seomoz and was enjoying all the benefits it has, was reading Q&A and implementing new marketing strategies for my website.

I would really appreciate if anyone could explain my situation. The website, to which I devoted last 12 months of my time, was suddenly dropped from it's main keywords to nowhere 2 days ago, it does not look like a "dance" because some of my competitors lost their rankings too. I think its a penalty.

The site http://goo.gl/3VTMq is almost 2 years old, of the highest quality content. I've been adding content slowly over 24 months, building backlinks slowly, the rankings also were going up slowly.

Here are some of the keywords I've been ranking for: car insurance companies - 12, best auto insurance companies - 1, top car insurance companies 1, cheap auto insurance - 16, low cost auto insurance 4,lowest auto insurance - 2, and many more...

According to seomoz, I have no major problems with on-site seo, I have low bounce rate, high pages/visit and high time on site.

There is only one left - incoming backlinks. Google says that it just can't hurt you, but I think this is the only explanation of my problem. My backlinks consist of everything - from high quality contextual backlinks, to lower quality comment backlinks. I used Press Release services too..

This problem is like a nail in my head, I look forward to hearing your response.

Thanks in advance,

Vaz