I have my car website (3000gtvr4.com) ranked for two key terms. 3000gt and VR4. Yesterday when I ran a report my ranking for 3000gt was around 76 when normally its around 6. My ranking for vr4 is still #1. I checked with google. I am indexed and have my pagerank. Although it dropped from 3 to 2 last update. For what I don’t know why.

I don’t know why google has done this. I have made two big changes recently. Both occurred about three weeks ago. First my site was finally listed in DMOZ. After waiting like 6 months. then I moved the whole site and domain to another web server.

I have read lots on the net. Even several things by mattcutts the top google tech. It seems like google does not have any problems with moving servers like they used to and how can they punish me for getting in DMOZ? I ran a check that sees if any of the incoming links are from bad neighborhoods and that check came out clear. I also checked the various data centers google keeps and they all looked like they were consistent.

Maybe its because of the amount of incoming links now that I am in DMOZ. Many websites out their skim data from the ODP and repost it on their site. Maybe google saw this as too many new links too fast. So they thought it was link spam. My site is registered with google web master and they had no warning messages for me. I have also posted on a few boards with no concrete answers.

– Five days later my site was back on the first page of the SERPS. I had removed a couple of off topic links and took off an old 3000gt webring that had been on there for over 7 years. The site was not re-indexed by google. However it returned to its original position. Was it human intervention or just a spider glitch?!?