Installed Vantage - website dropped on google from 2nd position to nowhere
This is 4.5 months old website with 25+ articles related to real estate marketing tips: epressa dot com
One article, for example, was on the 2nd position on Google for KW "real estate slogans". Now it is not in the top 100. I din't do a lot of back linking at all - just a few manual links from blogs posts and comments only and still some of the articles ranked pretty high.
Other pages dropped in rank too.
The only change I recently did was installing "Vantage" ~ 12 days ago replacing my original theme. I was going to use it just for providing a free section for listings of resources for real estate agents. I put 5-6 of these listings with short 200+ words descriptions.
5 days ago I noticed the drop and the only warning on Google webmaster tools was that this theme generated ~ 100 links to non-existent pages inside the directory module.
These links looked like this: domain.com/listings/whatever/contact/about/. Basically, all of them had "contact/about/" for some reason appended at the end. I have no idea why this happened.
Another thing - now some of the keyword searches that used to bring my articles on Google (some ranked from 2 to 4) now bring my Vantage directory URLs with completely non-related content.
2 days ago I went back to my original theme.
Did anybody else experienced something like this with Vantage?
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