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Originally Posted by sharphead
For what its worth, I think someone reported one of my sites, because I swear to god, I was in the first page for a couple keywords and getting some awesome SE traffic, and I mean awesome. Then all of a sudden, i'm now hovering around 750-800th rank for the same keywords and have never recovered and changed nothing. Probably an overzealous surfer trying "to do their part". I can see how this could be used to kill your competition, so to speak...
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You got hit by the end-of-results penalty (one of it's many names). I had the exact same thing happen last Christmas. I theorized on a few SEO boards that there was a correlation between top 10 rankings and the penalty (i.e. you won't get the penalty unless or until you're in the top 10 for targeted phrases) but nobody would concur, but your case seems to be yet another affected by this.
Whether it's to do with someone reporting you is debatable, however.