Dear Friends, My Google PageRank dropped from 3 to 0. We are also loosing our positions on keywords. However, we are holding good (No 1) for Indian Financial Portal. Our services are completely free. Hence we would appreciate if one or more of you could help us optimize our Search Engine Ratings. Positive or Negative - Your reply would be appreciated. Regards VJonDalalStreet
* Have you been buying links? * Do you sell links? "That pass PR" * Google only sees 3 backlinks now. Has this dropped? * Did most of you IBL come from directories? These links tend to be unstable as they tend to be here one day and gone the next or their PR drops for what ever reason. * Does Webmaster Tools show any issues or errors? I'm not sure why you dropped and the questions above are common reasons, but I do see a few things that I would change. Your title is way too long. Make it shorter, around 66 characters or less including spaces. After 60 characters, Google will cut off the title when it's displayed in the SERPs. Don't repeat words in the title, although remember singular and plural are different words to Google. Your keywords are also too long. Try to cut it down. If you can, remove all the styles and put them in a external .css file. Also remove the java to an external .js file. You have a canonicalization issue that needs addressing.
Dear, were there any links you have got from some authority sites, which may have been removed now for whatever reason.... Have you checked what is the status of the actual site traffic... Hope you get back your position... Mohsin
might want to work on your title tags, they are way to long as it is right now just build more links and add quality content and don't worry about page rank
Thanks for your feedback! I have never focussed on buying or selling links. I was only working on my content and presentation. I would not remember the number of backlinks I had earlier. Webmaster had showed me warnings about duplicate meta descriptions and titles. I have fixed all of them and those warnings have also gone away. I will reduce the title and keywords length soon. Lets see if I can remove those css and java things out. I will try. But does that really impact? What is canonicalization issue? Please elaborate. Thanks again for your feedback. Really appreciated.
These are my current stats taken from seoquake. Google PageRank - 0 Google Index - 51 Yahoo Links - 520 Yahoo Link Domain - 543 MSN Index - 108 Alexa Rank - 126341 Sitemap Yes External Links - 3 My web traffic is also consistent and growing Thanks for your help!
Sorry for the delay in getting back. canonicalization here is a link that explains it in detail http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/ Code (markup): as far as removing the java and css it helps with load times and also with moving your content closer to the top of the code. on the selling of links I saw that you sold ad space but did not see if the links passed PR or not. Here is a link that you may want to read on this topic. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/information-about-buying-and-selling.html Code (markup):
Thank you everyone for your sincere help! I am have done complete overhauling in terms of SEO optimization like this 1) Fixed the "canonicalization" issue 2) Title tags length less than 70 3) Description within 150 4) Keywords less than 10 5) Added alt text to all images 6) Created internal links within my own pages 7) Used H1 and H3 tags 8) Have done bold on important words/phrases 9) Good phrase for a link rather than a simple "More Details" 10) Added "nofollow" to External links 11) Moved javascript to .js files 12) Adding links in the blog post to the website I hope with all these changes, in a month or so by when all my pages would be re-indexed by google, yahoo and msn - My search traffic should grow. Any guesses how many times can it improve? Any other suggestions will also be appreciated. Kindly visit the website and blog for your expert opinions. Cheers