So I started promoting my site first, by commenting on do-follow relevant blogs also, I commented on several blogs of different topics. I managed to use commentluv links for this task. Since I started promoting the site, it started having traffic from 0 to nearly 70 unique visitors daily in less than two months, most of the traffic came from Google. So I kept building links in a regular basis of about 6-10 links per day, most of these links come from blogs. I was making good revenue from amazon despite the low traffic the site had, it was doing great. I even got some emails some my visitors giving positive feedback and noticed some other referrals from forums and blogs which is great because it was getting links by itself.

Three days ago, all that was going great, went down. I lost all rankings for all keywords in one day, even the title of the site which isn’t even competitive, is not shown my when you search the term. I do not know what really happened. I have asked in forums and everybody recommends me to keep on as it nothing has happened because this is kind of a dance and my site will recover in 5 days to 2 weeks. Honestly, this is not the first time this happens to one my sites but it usually recovers in few hours or a day. The site is indexed but all their rankings are gone. I just want to know whether it will come back.

I can give you some reasons as to why I think this happened:
1) It happens to all new sites, so don’t worry about yours UNLESS:
a) You have too much keyword spam on the homepage (see barstoolsuk.co.uk) to see what I mean about keyword spam
b) You don’t have much content (a few pages) but have a shitload of links
c) Your site load time is high (takes ages to load)
d) You have lots of duplicate content on your site
e) You are not offering your users anything unique

These are the reasons why my site is shafted. I have tried to correct these issues in my other sites and 1, at least, is dominating top 3 SERPs results for its target terms.

What I would say to you specifically is just build a useful site, avoid spammy tactics and implement a healthy link building strategy – what is a healthy link building strategy? That’s another post!