google ignores me ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by kapara, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. #1
    hi

    i opened a t-shirts shop 3 months ago.
    big-t-shirts.com

    at start i aimed at big sizes (up to 8xl) and very quicly arrived to 4th places on google on some keywords (big t-shirts, large etc ...).
    which i consider a success.

    but then i decided to change the focus of the shop to more general term like "t-shirts", and i'm not in the first 1000 results. (yes, 1000 !).

    does anybody have an idea why google ignores my shop for the term "t-shirts" ?

    have i done something wrong?

    it has h1, tytles. alt's, etc.
    it has quality incoming links (pr3 & 4) that google ignores.
    it's pr3

    i know it's a young shop and not a lot of incoming links yet, but not in the first 1000?,

    have i done something wrong that i'm being punished for?

    this kind of a shop cannot exist if it's not on google.
    please, any help will be appreciated

    thanks

    lenny
     
    kapara, Jul 19, 2008 IP
  2. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    t-shirts is too vague and too competitive a term.
    When you narrowed it down to large t-shirts, you made a good move, go back to that.
     
    magda, Jul 19, 2008 IP
  3. oneawesomeguy

    oneawesomeguy Peon

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    There is too much competition for the term t-shirt. You are probably better off to target specific keywords like you were doing before.
     
    oneawesomeguy, Jul 19, 2008 IP
  4. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    Even targeting "big t-shirts" or "large t-shirts" is very competitive. Its going to take a ton of work to pull in targeted traffic from those keywords organically.
     
    aaron_nimocks, Jul 19, 2008 IP