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[wishme]

Using the site: command, it looks like my main page was cached today! Still now showing up for my business name or in results though. OK, I'll quit checking for awhile! Thanks

[ricards]

i have the same problem.

www.astrocar-lda.com
www.sandroerui.pt

Edited by qwerty, 10 February 2005 - 09:06 AM.

[virusescu]

Hello everybody. I have just read the last issue of "High Rankings® Advisor - Issue No. 130"
The article begun with a headline that immediately caught my attention because I'm facing the same problem with a site I built.
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Q. My site is showing up for my major keyword phrases in Yahoo and MSN
but I'm nowhere to be found in Goggle. Why does Goggle hate me? (Or
alternatively, my site was doing well on Goggle but its rankings have
suddenly plummeted. Am I penalized?)
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I may be not a very good SE Optimizer myself but something is really fishy in here. Let me tell you why.
I have no problem with the fact that I may rank higher in some search engines and lower in others. For yahoo and MSN for certain keyphrases I rank first (the keywords ar not really competitive ). Until a couple of days ago I ranked first in google for the same keywords. Then it begun fluctuating, on second - third - first - third - first position and so on... when a couple of days ago finally jumped over to the 4th page of google.
Even that I could handle. BUT... the optimised pages that were showing up in the "wonderful days" contained in the title page this keywords (and in the body also )... but now I'm listed with a totaly different pages from my site that have different titles. For some of them the SERP even returns me with pages that don't even include a single word from the searched phrase is in it's title tag.

Could that be that google changed the importance of the title tag?

The story still goes on. In the "wonderful days" I had my site ranked first with not even an outside link to it. Now... I have almost 15 banners with links with my main keyword in the title of the a href and in the alt img description tag and still the situation is unchanged... You could say that the sites didn't got indexed. but you would then be wrong .

Guess what. The sites got indexed and now they show up in the SERP in the first and second page for the same keyphrases that my pages are optimised for. And as this wasn't enough... one of the sites that have a banner pointing to my site has nothing in common with the content of my site... the only place the keywords show up is in the title and description of the banner pointing to MY SITE... ( I think I'm going crazy.

So bottom line. All my affiliates list in front of me in google with my main keyword, even some of them don't have any content for that matter, the only related content being a banner pointing to my site with my (MY precious) keywords in it.
Only if they had been some competitor's site. :S

Any ideas, proposals, sugestions, solutions would be highly appreciated.

Edited by virusescu, 10 February 2005 - 08:59 AM.

[Shane]

How are your affiliate links set up? Do they link directly to your homepage, or do they go through an ad link first and then redirect to your homepage?

[virusescu]

direct links to my main page.
<a href="http://www.mypage.ph...iliate=affname" title="mykeywords"><img src="banner.jpg" alt="mykeywords"></a>

And in the landing page I have the keywords inside my title.

[virusescu]

I read this thread now... I hope that you are right.... Sorry for not seeing it in the first place (I ran a search before posting but... )

I will try not to go too crazy about this

[josh1r]

I've noticed that when doing a google search for "www.mysite.com" for any new sites of mine (few months old), that I rank very poorly, #17, whereas my link partners fill up the top spots.

On older sites of mine, the site that I am searching on always ranks #1 when I search for "www.mysite.com"

Is this due to the 'sandbox' issue? Is my site not getting top position since it's too new, but my link partners have been around a while so they rank well?

Thanks!

-- Josh

[Shane]

I was thinking you might have had a 302 redirect in there that was tripping the Google issue where they pick up the URL that's doing the redirecting, rather than the URL that's being redirected to. Although, now that I think about it, that wouldn't have been your problem anyway.

Ignore me

[calstan]

I have noticed a very strange behavior in Google the past couple of weeks. Up until then, my real estate page (stanfordrealty.com) was ranked on the first page for several key phrases, number one with the phrase "remax seattle". But in the past two weeks, our site starts off early in the day in that high position, but is totally out of the rankings before noon and the rest of the day. The next night, after it's crawled again, we're at the top but gone again later in the day. It's a daily thing? Any ideas what's happening?

[sweepthelegnate]

there are changes in google right now...there are various threads around about it...


no need to duplicate posts.


oh yeah, and welcome


this google thing will shake itself out eventually and then you'll know where you stand...


nathan

[ewo]

Go figure: about three weeks ago I radically altered my site. I was delighted that Google was displaying the new description just a couple of days later. However, today it seems Google has gone back in time and is now quoting text that is no longer on the site?

Uh?

[Jill]

Ewo, that's normal at Google. Give it a few days.

[Marker]

Hi folks

I know there's a lot of this about, but I'd appreciate any advice. Our company website is at www.lifelinelanguageservices.co.uk - used to rank pretty well until last Thursday...
So, on thursday I launched a cleaned-up set of pages; almost nothing new, just stripping out a lot of formatting clutter (written as a newbie) and replacing with a stylesheet ('cos I'm older... wiser?). Before I launched I did all the keyword density checks etc, and all seemed kosher.
But, next day we're gone gone, like far far away...

I remember seeing some advice from Jill recently on not over-SEO'ing your pages, and I'm wondering if that's why - these are about 2 years old, so were written to "old" standards. Could someone generous please give 'em the once-over and tell me if they're over-cooked? And if they are, which bits should I lighten up on?

I'd really appreciate any advice, guidance or even insults provided they're constructive... I'm not an SEO pro, I just wrote our website and did my homework and it's got us a lot of business, so - help!

Many thanks in advance,
Humbly, grovellingly and self-abaseingly yours,
Mark

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[sweepthelegnate]

there are major changes going on with google lately...


do a forum search...there are a couple of decent size threads about: "my site disappeared from google...there is no cache in google...why does google hate me etc...sandboxes are for kids with toy dump trucks etc."


a forum search should turn some stuff up for you.


welcome <edit - err, welcome back >



nathan

[Jill]

Welcome Marker!

I moved your thread into this one with the others who have been nuked.

I'd suggest removing the keyword stuffing on your site and hiring a professional copywriter to write you up some great copy for your users.

Good luck!

Jill