A cry for help!

[holycry]

The main key-phrase for our industry is “mystery shopping”. On Friday, July 30th we were #16 on Google. By Monday, Aug. 2nd (this morning) we got bumped to #365 and by noon we dropped to #756.

Last Thursday we made what we thought was a minor and positive change to our site. We linked to all of our Java script as opposed to having it displayed in full in the code. Obviously, as a result, our keyword densities changed. (i.e. the key words, “mystery” and “shopping” used to have densities of 0.36% and 0.29% respectively, improved to 5.82% and 5.09%.)

We also changed all of the “home” backlinks on our inner pages from “default.asp” to our root domain name.

Did we get temporarily “sandboxed” or does Google think we did something bad. I can assure you, our intentions were pure!

What can or should we do?

[Marcia]

What's being referred to as sandboxing has something to do with links. How long has your site been up altogether, by the way?

And why would you think that keywords used in JS code would be counted toward figuring the keyword density?

[Incubator]

As Marcia said, why would you consider JS to count for your keyword density?

Also are your internal links in JS ?

If you can provide more info or the URL it would help

Cheers

WC

[AussieWebmaster]

I would have recommended you doing a redirect for the default.asp page as well as changing what is actually on the page. There must be indexed links that contain the "default.asp" as a page and it would be better to pass the PR to the doamin name as opposed to leave it hanging there in the breeze.

[holycry]

I assumed the keywords used in JS code would be counted toward figuring the keyword density because I used the tool www.keywordcount.com. Before we linked our JS the tool showed our top keyword density results to be "menu", "var", "function", etc. After the fix, it changed to "mystery", "shopping", "new", "image", etc. (not perfect but getting there)

Our URL by the way is http://www.nationalshoppingservice.com