[newbie101]

I registered 20 new sites about a month ago and did some testing with different networks for different domains. After a few weeks all sites were ranking in top 100 for their primary keywords. Some as high as top page 2. (10k+ keywords)

Then one day I woke up to check rankings and all sites were gone from the top 100. I doubt sites have any penalties as they all show up on page 1 when I search for their domain name. ( i have plenty of other sites WITH penalties that dont show up when doing this search) All but 1 of the 20 also got pr1 to pr3 in the most recent pr update even though at the time of the update none of the sites were ranking.

Sites are on different IPs and all have private registration. The only thing that links them together is that they were all registered in one bulk godaddy registration. Is this something google has access to and cares about in terms of ranking?

Has anyone else experienced this sort of "bulk" google drop on new domains? I rarely care about sites dropping in and out of google when they are new, but 20 sites doing the exact same thing at the exact same time hasnt happened to me before.

anyone got any suggestions on how to "recover" or proceed I would appreciate the input.

[georges]

Could be a normal google dance and / or a backlink velocity decrease. Since you've got several domains, try to use a single network per domain for a week or two, and then see what happens. I started to be very careful when it comes to posting on networks which place your article on their home page - I'm pretty sure that unless you're running cnn dot com, getting a dozen or two of pr3+ links per day is very unlikely to happen naturally. I know that the articles are then pushed away from the high pr home page, but the robot sees them as being there when it visits your website.

[MarkAse]

It is unnatural to get 2 links per day.

Thank God real companies don't send bloggers samples to review....that could get them sandboxed!  Especially 2 of them a day, how could anyone afford to send samples in such high numbers?

[raven]

i think he was effectively saying 12 to 24 pr3 posts on the homepage in 1 day with google indexing that way, not 2 backlinks a day. Just wanted to put that out there.

[georges]

Raven is right; as I'm sure you know, 99% of the blog networks out there will post more than a copy of your article per day. I had one of my websites penalized because of this.

[MattW]

Hi,

I think you need to provide more detail around-

Your link building strategy, what you used, how you used it
Was each strategy different for each site?
Did you maintain link velocity
On site factors/content quality/ad placement

To be honest the sites are only a month old, I would just bury your head in the sand and keep building links.  Although if you do have a lot of sites with penaltys you might want to evaluate your link processes.