Geez, I mentioned in a previous post I was ranking 1st page for about 10 keywords..... and now I only rank 1st page for 1 out of 10...... and my homepage is hardly ranking now This may have happened when I added about 50-100 internal links on my front page Anyways, here's one new thing I noticed that is screwed up: Lets say my homepage, which has so many backlinks, is ranking 1st page for "Blue Widgets" I also have a subpage called "Blue Widgets", with no backlinks After I messed everything up..... My strong homepage doesnt rank at all for "Blue Widgets"........ however my page called "Blue Widgets" is now ranking, but on the 6th page This sucks! I re-named the title tags of the page.... in hopes my strong homepage comes back to the 1st page!!
Google probably see some scents of duplicate in your site, better to change all titles and descriptions (also contents) unique for each.
Yeah I did, im sitting and waiting now.... Im ranking like #299 for keywords I ranked #5 for............ and my subpages are ranking like #50 for the same keyword Im still on the 1st page for 1 keyword, & my company name crazy stuff Moral of the story: If you're ranking high, don't mess around with your site!!!
i agree once i played with my site and google throwed me out and it took me almost 3 months to get back in google
There was a blogpost in SEOMOZ recently about how internal link structure can incur Google penalties (automated, thus in the algorithm filter).
Ok check this out, and let this be a lesson to anyone!!! Ok , say you're trying to rank 1st page for "Red Widgets" And you got tons of anchor links coming to your homepage, with the anchor text "Red Links"..... and you're loving it, tons of visitors to your strong homepage, that already has tons of link juice NOW, Say you have a subpage called "My Website - Red Widgets" Its possible Google will start ranking that site for Red Widgets... and not your homepage..... but instead of 1st page........ itll be 10th page.... and your homepage will be gone Im not sure if this happens, but its happening to me..... my homepage has disappeared for "Red Widgets"..... however my subpage is ranking like #61............. my homepage used to be 1st page................... and like I said, I screwed my site up when I put all those links !!!!!
Its hard to master the algorithm of Google. But, once we fail we can learn from it because succeesing in Google SERPS is quite a common thing which any one starting a site would try to accomplish. But, holding on to the same principle for ages does take some patience as we tend to play with the settings and check our knowledge. A lesson learnt Flash. Thanks for sharing this to the team. We would avoid doing the same.
So,the only thing remains now is that you do your best to restore the proper conditions,keep doing your good job,and (hope) everything will be find soon. because the more you will use your brain to clear the mess up,more dirt it will get.
Remove the 50-100 internal links from the homepage and put them on a sitemap. Remove the subpage called "My Website - Red Widgets"
I absolutely agree ! U should do that and then U will be just fine in No time after submitting your site map