I have a small blog that I am trying to sell. The site had been first page for the specific keyword (matching domain) for almost 2 years and I posted the site on Flippa for sale. There are other sites I guess that take feeds from Flippa and I just ended up with a number of new backlinks.

3 days after posting for sale I went to 13 on page 2 and am not down to 19. The site has never been that low for that specific keyword.

Is it possible I got hit because of these new links?

Thanks in advance

Arthur