[Rss_Feeds]

I recently added some "featured" menus that bring up related products to product pages of an ecommerce site. This wasn't for any SEO reason, just to help sell products.

I noticed that all my rankings suddenly dropped way down for all the product searches, I had a look at the pages and noticed that the featured menu contained a very high concentration of my keyword, so say on the "Blue Widgets" page my menu would say:

Other Similar Widgets

Green Widgets | Red Widgets | Latest Widgets | Retro Widgets | Ultra Widgets | Widget Accessories

I took out the word "widgets" from each link and my rankings came back - was I effected by some kind of keyword spam filter? Maybe it was a coincidence.
I see a lot of sites use these type of menus including the keyword a lot of times - maybe google has got wise to this.

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[InsurancePhoenix]

Originally Posted by Rss_Feeds

I recently added some "featured" menus that bring up related products to product pages of an ecommerce site. This wasn't for any SEO reason, just to help sell products.

I noticed that all my rankings suddenly dropped way down for all the product searches, I had a look at the pages and noticed that the featured menu contained a very high concentration of my keyword, so say on the "Blue Widgets" page my menu would say:

Other Similar Widgets

Green Widgets | Red Widgets | Latest Widgets | Retro Widgets | Ultra Widgets | Widget Accessories

I took out the word "widgets" from each link and my rankings came back - was I effected by some kind of keyword spam filter? Maybe it was a coincidence.
I see a lot of sites use these type of menus including the keyword a lot of times - maybe google has got wise to this.

More...

Thanks for the question. I have to consider that for myself as well. I jumped to # 7 on a key search term and fell to over 300 shortly thereafter.

Insurance / Phoenix / Prescott