When good Google goes bad

Google loves your site.  It’s indexed 8 billion pages and they’re all #1.  And then suddenly, they’re not.  What do you do?  Try every method of SEO you’ve heard of to bring it back?  Throw off your white had in a tizzy and start spamming?  Or just hang in there and wait for the algorithms to change again?

The “right” answer varies from one site to the next.  You can’t always be sure what Google’s objecting to.  Making changes could even make things worse.

Before you try anything drastic, there’s a thread at Webmaster World on what to do when you take a Google nosedive.  A lot of visitors have listed their own methods - what worked, what didn’t work.  Not only will it give you some good ideas for the nosedive situation… there are some damn good linkbuilding suggestions for anytime in there.