Originally Posted by nico-t

Since this atrocity ive noticed a trend in my US sites.

Link building and optimizing a site for a particular main keyword doesnt work for me anymore. For these primary keywords im on the last pages of google, this happened for several of my sites. A situation what used to be called the sandbox, and since panda was introduced im in there forever it seems.

Keywords and phrases i havent even thought about, and are maybe a couple times in normal text on the sites, are on the first couple of pages. I never built links with these words nor is it by any means the main topic of the site but they are high in google for it. WTF

Who experienced this too, and what did you do to regain your main positions?