My Directory de ranked, is it something serious???

[funbie]

My myspace links directory <mod edit> is de ranked in google from 1st page to page 3 for most relevant terms such as
myspace links
myspace links directory
myspace directory etc

i am also facing a decline in the page strength from 3 to 2.0 while its still a PR 4, on the other hand my PR 1 under construction dir is 2.5 in page strength, i don't understand this weird behavior by google.. please help me

[sniperhiga]

WoW! You target wrong keywords. MySpace is a website which everyone know... Google always protect things like this, moreover... if they see that something wrong... real person visit your site and kick away from rankings. After this you can build 100 pr8 backlinks without any result.

Your directory is a dead man. I will suggest you to change name untill you got $1 000 000 charge and purposal to visit court from "News Corporation" who own MySpace. This thing happen with one www.seochat.com member who bought domain which sounded like Google.

[funbie]

I really dont target my directory for these keywords, these are my stats that show me i was on the top pages for these relevant search terms, i was number 1 for the first four keywords on my Title bar and now i am gone,

Regarding myspace policy, i only heard owning a domain name with myspace in it is not allowed while my directory is not using it, on the other hand another directory that uses the word myspace in it is still on the top pages while its empty, i dont understand

[TheIntroducer]

You could have a hunt around the Matt Cutts site for clues about de-ranking. However, I'm pretty sure Google or any other search engine for that matter will "hardcode" the protection of specific keywords. Look at the stories about George W to see evidence of this. They are always confident their algorythm is sufficient to protect against malpractice

[oseymour]

there are lot of reasons why your ranking fell. more than likely you lost some links, or some of the sites that were linking to you lost some links. you should also check your outgoing links to see if any sites you are linking to got penalized or banned.

[funbie]

Hey just a reminder for you guys, that de-rank this was probably a prank google played with me before it promoted my directory in SERPs and to PR 5

Its PR 5 with a decent traffic coming in and ranking high in search engines for the relevant terms!

Thanks