Was hoping someone could shed some light on the following..
Our website ranked number one on Google.ie for the last 3years. example: search for "Blue Book" and www.bluebook.ie displayed as number one. We last checked 3-4 weeks back. Checked back today and we're now on page 7!
First thoughts are that this could be sabotage by a competitor.. Contacted the company we host our website with (the have their own CMS). They said if it is sabotage, our website could have been submitted to various spamming sites which would prompt Google to de-rank our website. They also mentioned that we would probably receive calls from spammers because of this. We received 1-2 calls per day since last week from private numbers, from what appeared to be from China and India.
The whole thing seems a little confusing as to why we dropped so many pages in a such a short space of time.
Appreciate any information on what may have happened and if it was sabotage, can it be investigated/traced as to who may be responsible?
Many thanks
Our website ranked number one on Google.ie for the last 3years. example: search for "Blue Book" and www.bluebook.ie displayed as number one. We last checked 3-4 weeks back. Checked back today and we're now on page 7!
First thoughts are that this could be sabotage by a competitor.. Contacted the company we host our website with (the have their own CMS). They said if it is sabotage, our website could have been submitted to various spamming sites which would prompt Google to de-rank our website. They also mentioned that we would probably receive calls from spammers because of this. We received 1-2 calls per day since last week from private numbers, from what appeared to be from China and India.
The whole thing seems a little confusing as to why we dropped so many pages in a such a short space of time.
Appreciate any information on what may have happened and if it was sabotage, can it be investigated/traced as to who may be responsible?
Many thanks