I’m working on a webpage for which I’ve used numerous boxes, one on top of the other, for design purposes. Apparently the site is blacklisted with Google and I’m wondering if it’s because they consider this possible spam. I was taking an online course in SEO while I was working on the site and asked the instructor if he thought the boxes would cause problems . . . all kinds of keywords could be hidden behind them. His response was that it was not a problem as long as I was not actually hiding anything. It’s been 8 weeks since I’ve submitted the site to Bing and Google. It’s doing pretty well on Bing, but zip on Google. I’d appreciate some opinions. Here’s the site: www.st-petersburg-attorneys.com.
Hi! I've noticed you have a mobile version that is duplicating your pages: www.st-petersburg-attorneys.com/bankruptcy.html www.st-petersburg-attorneys.com/mbankruptcy.html I suggest you to block these pages or use the right method to identify a mobile version, as written here http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2188344/The-New-Mobile-SEO-Strategy
https://www.google.com/search?q=www...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Not blacklisted.... May not be ranking that well. This could be due to a few things like having a few - in the url is not such a good idea. As of late you have to address this as well http://www.webpronews.com/matt-cutts-just-announced-a-google-algorithm-change-2012-09 hope that helps. At a quick glance I didn't see anything mechanical on site that would cause issues but sorta busy. I don't think I missed anything though. hope that helps, Nigel
Definitely indexed and not blacklisted! the site isn't www.st-petersburg-attorneys.com it's st-petersburg-attorneys.com Basic onsite seo - get an .htaccess file that redirects to www! Use this code. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^st-petersburg-attorneys.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.st-petersburg-attorneys.com/$1 [r=301,nc] This often confuses google. You're indexed, get the www changed. Ping your site or use a rapid indexer. Get it reindexed and cached and type st. petersburg attorneys. You're probably just being outranked by 100s of other sites. Start your offline seo to rank higher!
If I understand this correctly, I should: 1 Create a subdomain for the mobile pages, 2 Use a link canonical tag on the mobile pages, and 3 Use a link alternate tag on the desktop pages. Is that correct? I should say that I’m fairly new at this. I’ll have to do some research, but want to make sure I’m headed in the right direction.
On the subject of www.sitename.com and sitename.com (no www. in front) what's the deal with that? My website automatically shows as having no www. even when you type www. in front of it, just appears as sitename.com. Can this cause issues for SEO / Google? I'm self hosted but use wordpress software, how can I change it to www. and will this cause issues with any previous backlinking I've done?
It doesn't matter which one you use. You just typically want to make sure you use one or the other. You can safely leave it as you have it. Nigel
If you've been backlinking with no www then it's ok. Stick to whatever one you choose. I've suggested this here, because I had a similar problem a few years back with a Micro Niche site and putting a .htaccess in seemed to get it sorted. Thought it might be worth a try here.
Browntwn . . . Is there a site that shows whether or not Google has indexed a webpage? What are you looking at when you say 'looks indexed to me'? If I google the actual url, the site shows up in the results. But as of last week, when I googled any of the key phrases I optimized for, the site did not show up at all (I search all 62 pages of results for one keyword) . . . some of these same key phrases are doing well on Bing.
One simple way to know if a domain/server is blacklisted is to copy and paste the entire URL into the google search bar. If it is not the first result, then yes, you have some problems.
Even if your website URL still displayed in the search result it does not mean that your site is not penalized. Penalty comes in many forms, not just de-indexed.
There is a distinction between a site being indexed and a site ranking for certain terms, so while your site is indexed your research showed it was not ranking for those 62 terms. To check whether or not a site is indexed, and how many pages of it are indexed, I go to Google.com and enter: site:st-petersburg-attorneys.com (I happen to get 18 results today, which means Google has indexed 18 pages of your site) I also like to check: http://push2check.com/st-petersburg-attorneys.com (it can show you a history of indexed pages over time although I have seen some inaccuracy with respect to Yahoo and Bing numbers) As for the 62 search phrases that are not showing up, you probably need to improve both on-site and off-site SEO for those phrases.... maybe concentrate on the most important or core ones first. Lawyer sites are hard to rank for many terms due to the competition.
Google has a disliking of redirects - a lot of spammers use them. When you go to your home page the first thing I notice is your home page jump to index2.asp; Which we leads me to ascertain that you redirect to this page from, erm... say index.asp or default.asp? If so, get rid of it immediately! Then the spider might come back and start indexing you again! If PR can't follow a redirect - then effectively you are removing all rank from subsequent pages. Plus it won't index your pages...