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Keep an eye on your serps everyone. I’ve been seeing sites drop off the map, come back on page 4, and then regain its original position.
I’m not sure if this is a test algo for UK based searches or what because I usually only see this on US based searches.
If you drop, don’t sweat it. My rule is to wait 72 hrs. before freaking out. In this case it only took around 10.
For the past two weeks i’ve seen my sites flying from top10 to 200 – 300 positions on google and back to top10. We’re in some kind of update right now.
@GaryTheScubaGuy 184083 wrote:
I’m not sure if this is a test algo for UK based searches
The same here, London based searches.
Same here. its been like 3 weeks now….:cappy:
I hope it reverts back to normal sooneclipse;184084 wrote:For the past two weeks i’ve seen my sites flying from top10 to 200 – 300 positions on google and back to top10. We’re in some kind of update right now.Whats happening to your sites traffic,,,,, anything???????????????
traffic has dropped considerably since we dropped on the SERPs on Google
Live/MSN,Yahoo still Okdid your question mark button on your keyboard get stuck? :tongue:
I see rankings bounce around all the time,
whats your site and what terms has it dropped for? How much traffic have you lost?
well well well.
Looks like there was some G update today. Not PR (not mine anyway), but our site has regained its position on the SERPs searching from South Africa
OddsOn – the site is http://www.Playcasino.co.za
We did drop on quite a few terms searching on Google SA but all’s good nowThe 2 which reverted to its orginal position, or even better :
online gambling – Page 1
online casinos – Page 2 :flush:
Yes, I know these keywords will highly unlikely deliver quality traffic as they are a bit vague..Cheers :hattip:
Is this happening again today? One of my sites which got slammed big time by Google 6 weeks ago finally started recovering last week but today it has fallen to its lowest position yet. I’ve sent about 3 requests for reconsideration mails to Google but of course they can’t be bothered to give any answer.
Is there any way of finding out why a site might be getting penalised? I’ve been checking for duplicate content with copyscape but it all shows up fine.
Aa far as my knowledge goes, google reinclusion request is designed for sites which are banned and deindexed.
IMHO the drops you see are connected with your link campaigns. All my sites, which had aggressive links with small variety of anchor texts dropped. Other sites with natural looking anchors moved up a lot.
Well it can’t be aggressive link campaign because I haven’t done that in the last few months. The massive mistake I made was to change my IP address about 6 weeks ago. I add regular contents to the site in question but to no effect. I realise that the request for reinclusion is probably the wrong medium but what else can I do when Google slams my site for no apparent reason. Bear in mind that on all the other search engines the site is getting bigger and better and gaining serps, it is only on Google there is a problem.
Is there some way I can contact Google to ask them why they are penalising my site?
I also have 1 site deindexed for no reason
and one drop far away… wierd@heimdall 188918 wrote:
why they are penalising my site?
You have a whole host of issues Heimdall, any one of which may have drawn a penalty.
1. Duplicate title tags
2. Duplicate descriptions
3. Tons of OPR’s from reddit, digg, del.icio.us (object permanently removed) – there are 1000’s of OPR’s. This is probably dues to #6
4. You changed your site from html to php but haven’t used 301’s
5. Have you canonicalised the URL’s?
6. You internal navigation is causing robots to loop endlessly (unless you have over 4000 pages (which is where it was when I stopped)
7. Severe duplication of anchor text inside and outside the website (cap and dashes will not differentiate the keyword phrases) – You actually SHOULD be #1 for the phrase you mentioned. How many people actually search that? – So its definitely a penalty – but it could be one, several, all or none of the above, but its a good place to start. You still have your history with Google and it may spill over despite being 6 weeks out.This took about 10 minutes. I really haven’t dove into the site. It wouldn’t make sense to at this point until these issues are fixed…otherwise everything becomes clouded.
Good job on the nofollows, but you should spend a little more time building a site-link tree and taking advantage of this technique. As it stands it looks as if you have built a site with a spread sheet and php with a few tweaks here and there. The tweaks, cross-navigational elements and duplication of tags has totally diluted your SERP positions and from what you say it happened during a time that coincides with an update, so no surprise.
No easy fix here…and only the beginning.
Good Luck
GaryTheScubaGuySo basically the site that had the EXACT same structure 6 weeks ago, and actually for the previous 6 months, is now being penalised, has google changed there algorithm or something? I know there may be things which are wrong but what I don’t understand is why all of a sudden they are penalised when nothing structurally has changed.
Can you tell me how you discovered all of these points so fast, do you have some special tools? I have no idea what you mean by changing the site from html to php without redirects but I can agree with the looping and the duplicate title tags and descriptions, although there’s only about 30 duplicates of each and Google has stated that it doesn’t even penalise this. The duplicates aren’t in my opinion proper duplicates but are for example
high-rollercasinos.com/Portugese/Artigos/?start=14
and
high-rollercasinos.com/Portugese/Artigos/?start=16
i.e they are dynamic pages in a list
I don’t know how to fix this but would appreciate some advice please.Is using social bookmarking a bad thing then or am I just doing it wrong? I’m confused on that point.
I would love to know how to stop the looping, how do other multi language sites get around this problem, I was told that interlinking was good for a site but maybe that was bad advice or I misunderstood something.
Ultimately what I don’t understand is that if this site is as bad as you are telling me, and I have no good reason not to believe you, why is it number 1 for my search term in nearly every search engine apart from google like yahoo, msn, alltheweb etc etc?
Finally a challenge to any seo experts out there, I clearly need a lot of help so give me a good price for fixing up my site and I’ll consider it.
