Lost my 1st position on Yahoo! HELP!

Discussion in 'SEO' started by Lonny.P, Nov 22, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hello there

    I used to have number one position for the popular keyword: 'trucking' - for the web site http://www.loadmove.com

    Now I lost my position and I haven't changed anything, can you help?

    any ideas?
     
    Lonny.P, Nov 22, 2005 IP
  2. Dekker

    Dekker Peon

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    #2
    What position have you moved to?

    Find the ones that over took you, take a look at their sites, find their backlinks, find where they're mentioned. And try to mimick it.
     
    Dekker, Nov 22, 2005 IP
  3. designteks

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    lonny i did the search trucking and didnt see your site in the top 1000, ive
    read about people getting clipped around the beginning of nov ... ive read
    yahoo is more focused on links but you seem to have a good PR / links

    areas i would think about

    ... the home page redirects to loadmove.com/directory

    which page was listed first the /directory or the home page ?
    has it always done this ? what type of redirect are you using ?
    do all of your incoming links go to the directory page or the home page?

    ... you have trucking 4 times in the title and 5 in the description in your
    metatags, i would compare to top sites and think about trying to tone those
    back a bit
     
    designteks, Nov 22, 2005 IP
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    markkk Well-Known Member

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    404 not found??

    then as much as possible dont use redirection.. or use 301 method if cant avoid.
     
    markkk, Nov 22, 2005 IP
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    Yahoo recently went through an update. Keyword density might be too high. Did you compare it to the other sites now coming up 1st page?
     
    mjp92122, Nov 22, 2005 IP
  6. daboss

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    #6
    if you don't continuousy try to improve your site, your ranking would probably drop as your competitors are trying to improve theirs...
     
    daboss, Nov 22, 2005 IP
  7. Lonny.P

    Lonny.P Peon

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    #7
    Thanks for the tip, it's a quality site, so I hope I'll be able to get it back, so, the redirection is problematic? didn't know that so far.

    the site is setup on loadmove.com/Directory - what can I do in order to make it work? I'm using the permenant redirction via cPanel - any other type of SE friendly redirection?

    All the incoming links are linking to loadmove.com not the loadmove.com/Directory

    regarding the keywords, the trucking word appears quite often on my site as well as the meta, so you suggest to make it apear only once in the meta tags? won't it ruin the SE position on other search engines?
     
    Lonny.P, Nov 23, 2005 IP
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    Samething happened here just today. Might be an alg change for them.

    Interesting though.
     
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  9. Lonny.P

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    ok, removed the redirection, loadmove.com/index.html is working now, hope that it would make a difference...
     
    Lonny.P, Nov 23, 2005 IP
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    #10
    You also may have tripped a yahoo filter due to the 50,000 inbound links. My guess is you'll still be spidered (aka not banned) but you won't get any rankings.
     
    jamjv, Nov 23, 2005 IP
  11. Lonny.P

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    what do you mean, 50,000 inbound links? won't get any rankings? for how long??
     
    Lonny.P, Nov 24, 2005 IP
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    Maybe wait awhile?
     
    icfire, Nov 24, 2005 IP
  13. Lonny.P

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    well, it's been over 2 weeks like this, revenues is down, I see no point of waiting, I've redesigned the site removed redirection, anything else I should do in your opinion?
     
    Lonny.P, Nov 25, 2005 IP