Lossing positions on Google dramatically

We have lost ranking on our primary search phrase over the last year terribly, it just slowly slipped from first page, to second, to third... (Used to be in top ten but now not in the top 100). Interestingly, though, we still do very well with secondary search phrases, most in top ten positions. We have tried everything we could, we even redesign most of it but does not seem to work. We have been talking to a local SEO expert but could not find any problem with it. He said everything looks OK. Our domain is VirtualVallarta.com we have over 2,500 pages. For our primary search phrase, we have more value content than any other competitive website by a long shot. No one has the content than us and we were awarded for this for years with Google with top ten positioning. Do you think you can take a look a it and give us some guidance? Thanks.

 

You could have bad links pointing to your website, or Google panda related problems. I'm not to sure about how you could be losing rank if your website has good quality unique content. There are a number of problems and I would have you ask other professionals around the industry in order to find out exactly what the problem is.

Checking your websites backlinks it says you have 1309 backlinks according to backlinkwatch.com. A lot of these could be bad links from forums, wordpress comments, and spam. You might want to have some of these links removed.

One thing you can look at is this page from Google where you can look up questions you might have about your website. Below you can email Google support teams with any questions regarding your website.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35291?hl=en

 

Thank you for your input, we will for sure review that. But if you, or someone else in this forum, can think of some other thing we should do or check please let me know. I would really appreciate it.

 

Is everyone suppose to "guess" at what your primary keyword phrase is and which URL used to rank #1, #2, or #3 for it? It's kind of hard to tell you why you're not ranking for a particular keyword phrase any more without know the phrase.

 

Sorry our primary keyword phrase was "puerto vallarta" and the URL is VirtualVallarta.com
Thank you for your help!

 

We noticed that we are using h2's for our page titles and h1's below it. Could this be affecting us? Because of heading hierarchy.

 

Firstly remove the bad links which is pointing to your website & do guest post on authority website & promote your website on authority websites....

 

Thank you markwilson400! We've been looking into our backlinks and we found some bad ones, like this one for example http://lekliffrestaurant.blogspot.mx/2012/05/le-kliff-en-el-restaurant-week-puerto.html How do we remove it?

 

The symptoms indicate that your website is penguin hit so check your link profile and if spammy links or links from low quality website found then remove your links from those website, if not able to remove them then use google disavow tool.

 

How do we know if we were penguin hit? This is something we've been wondering about for a while now

 

Potential duplicate content issues:

get the 301's sorted.

• http://www.virtualvallarta.com/index.shtml returns a 200 (OK) response.
• http://virtualvallarta.com/index.shtml returns a 200 (OK) response.

• http://www.virtualvallarta.com returns a 200 (OK) response.
• http://virtualvallarta.com returns a 200 (OK) response.

 

you should check your content , and remove low quality backlink

 

A possible reason could be a low-quality backlink. This could be a blog comment, a blogroll on a blog with A LOT of pages! Be sure to check your backlinks with AT LEAST 3 different tools (because there is no tool that will show you ALL your backlinks!) and try to check if there are any backlinks that could harm your website! And then try to remove it, you can always try to kindly ask a webmaster to remove it from their blog/website!

 

Same problem i am facing with my website Rugsville.com, our top keywords getting down day by day, SEO is not working for targeted keywords, we have around 50000 pages on website, please give me solution so we can get better ranking again. Thanks

 

Is google diving up our ranking for that page?

 

It could be, yes.. seems its your home page that usually holds the most authority and you have four of them at the moment, all exact copies (duplicate content) You should have only one home page... you are splitting your authority between 4 exact copies of the home page, so the site is also competing with itself for your home page targeted keywords / phrases.

you should have 3 of the above 301 redirected to: www.virtualvallarta.com, this way all of them point to that one home page, and all authority & link juice built up for the other 3 home pages will be passed to just that one.

Im not saying it will fix your ranking problems, but that is the most obvious problem that i can see with your site.

 

That's what I thought you meant. Thank you for taking the time to look into our site.

 

After taking an in depth look at your backlink profile, you have been losing backlinks ever since Jan 27th of this year. At that particular time you had just over 3500, (but you were on the rise, someone was building links for you) to date you currently have just under 2,900 backlinks. Though that's not a HUGE drop, you are still losing. No-one is "referring" their visitors to you, per se..

There are several reason as to why you are losing backlinks, but that's a whole different topic. I would suggest building a few (or alot) of authoritative type backlinks from here on out and diversifying your link building strategy along with anchor text variation.

Another thing I noticed was that of those 2900 backlinks that you have, your money keyword only makes up 2% of your backlink profile... Needs to be slightly higher than that. "Virtual Vallarta" makes up for 17% of your backlinks... Switch those around, but keeping mind what I said above.

Just a few things I ran across that I know you need help with and is most likely the cause of you losing your rankings...

Holla!

 

Question, how do I get a 301 from /puertovallarta/entertainment/ to http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/entertainment/allactivities/allactivities.shtml with out looping?

 

Sudden drop in traffic without any action from your side like blocking pages through robots.txt, nofollow no index and similar other activities that are intentionally done to remove pages from search results.