What happened?!?!?

Recently, my company was moving up in rankings on SERPs. No solid PR change yet, but we’re waiting for Jan. At any rate, I’m doing a check of datacenter ranks and I see ‘not in top 100’ in the results, sporadically. We’ve been in top 100 for some time now with relevant info and such growing almost daily for the term ‘chicago real estate’. I checked toolbarqueries and two other pages come up in the SERP. It seems that we’ve also dropped on MSN. Please check out the following link and share with me any ideas you may have. It doesn't 'feel' good to me, but I'd like some unbiased opinion and possible resolution ideas.

http://toolbarqueries.google.com/se...G=Google+Search


Thanks,
Booker

I guess, in a nutshell, what I'm asking is do spam pages with our URL all over them will affect our ranking?

Let me offer more background:

1. To my knowledge, we are not linked to any bad sites.
2. Multiple copies of our homepage (i.e. /index, /home, etc...) have been addressed. Recognized pages (pages that rank well and have PR) have been perm redirect and those that weren't received a meta-robots 'none.' Could this be a reason?
3. The only recent optimizations have been to meta tags, primarily on interior pages.


If I could, I'd post the links so you could see what I'm talking about. It's a very odd situation and I've never heard of anything like this before, hence my reason for bugging you guys. To go from 'top 50' to 'not in top 100' is a painful drawback. Our SERP positions were slowly improving (site expansion, content additions, etc... all of which are very white hat) and suddenly, three pages (I believe recognized as blog pages) with our URL all over them, links to irrelevant sites, and a sex banner show up, and we get booted from top hundred on several G datacenters. I don't know how else to phrase it. Feel free to ask me for the URL's, but forum policy prevents me from posting them.

Thanks again, everyone!

Booker

You can post the url's... just uncheck the "automatically parse links" checkbox below the submission form.

Personally, I wouldn't stress too much about it because I'm sure that there wasn't any significant traffic from SE's if you were in the 40's. If these types of sites make up a significant percentage of your inbounds.... lose em if you can (they won't be of much help in the long run anyway... IMO) and in the mean time seek quality links from reputable sources.

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Thanks for the insight!

Booker

I've seen my pages jump from the 50s to the 200s to the 90s for the same keyword and with no changes to the site. It also may be search engine algorithms tweaking here and there. Moving up the ranks is definitely nonlinear and at times very unpredictable.

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