I have a site http://www.mycuisinedelight.com/ and want to rank this site for keywords diet plans and diet plan and i get good links from 1 way linking and get links from sites such as hubpages and also i get link from blog commenting and forum signature but ranking for these keywords is going down can you tell me that google is going mad for seo? or tell me how should i resolve that problem.
I think Google is changing their algorithm that's whay your keyword rankings drop or the keywords you are using have low searches per month.
Just goes to proove that the hub pages and blog/forum spamming techniques that most of the morons here keep harping on about are pretty worthless in terms of SEO!
Google is going crazy... Google is using or varying their algorithm. Haven't you notice that even it nofollow they still give it some credits.
The best links are the ones that your competitors can't get! Anybody can comment on blogs and forums so these links are not worth much at all. Be creative! Your BMI calculator will probably make great link bait so figure out a way to push that. I did a post about this a little earlier but take a look at this post in my SEO blog - see if it sparks any ideas...
I don't think 1400 inlinks are enough to rank for diet plans or diet plan. Check your competitor's websites and their inlinks to get an idea.
its getting harder and harder, they are pursuing SEO to get quality links rather than those links that comes from spams and other untrusted sites, google are now changing its algorithm and trying to end web spams...
Get a mixture for links, you will have a very tough time ranking for a keyword like diet plans, with hubpages, blog commenting and forum signatures alone. You must do alot of work and be patient.
Yeah I think using a range of keywords is the best way to go. Once you have a higher PR using less competitive keywords, you can continue on to working on the harder keywords.
I have seen ZERO evidence that they are giving nofollow ANY credit at all. In fact the official word at Google has always been and still remains that nofollow links have absolutely no affect on rankings. Yes. They show them in the link: operator output as well as in Webmaster Tools. But those are just a sample of links they know about... not necessarily links they count toward your ranking. They also show URLs that are currently under penalty who link to your URLs, but those would not be helping your URL's rankings either.
"diet plans" and "diet plan" are two of the most competitve keyword phrases on the web: "diet plan" intitle:"diet plan" 815,000 results "diet plans" intitle:"diet plans" 311,000 results It's not likely you'll rank in the top 20 for those phrases without probably 10,000+ backlinks or some VERY authoritative backlinks from Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, and other big sites. Google is changing the focus of their results these days and is more prone to show brand and authoritative sites than pidly little sites that people are creating to make money off of Adsense clicks. And somehow, I doubt very seriously your site is a brand site or an authoritative site in the weightloss industry. You're much better off going after very long tail keyword phrases related to diet plans. Ranking well for keyword phrases which bring you a few visitors each per month is MUCH better than trying to rank for keyword phrases that are impossible to rank for and which bring you zero traffic per month. You need to reset your expectations and change the focus of your targeted keyword phrases.
Absolutely.. actually I was pretty shocked when I first found several nofollow links counted as link to my site in the google webmasters tool .. something is definitely changing ..donno if its good or bad in the long run ..