Hello, Can anyone explain me what's wrong with my position in Google? Here are the facts: The site is Movie Remakes: http://www.movie-remakes.com It is a web site that analyzes the movie remaking phenomena, with the long detailed list of the original movies and their remakes. It is running since April, when I submitted it to Google through some submitting engines, I also submitted it to Google Sitemaps Beta and DMOZ. If you type the keywords "movie remakes" in Google you will find bunch of pages that have little or none connection to the subject, but you won't find my site anywhere. SEO methods that I used: The keywords "movie remakes" appear on every page of my site; it IS the main subject. - The contents of each page is about movie remakes - The titles of the pages are "Movie Remakes ... something", there are many headings that consist of those keywords, graphics and their alts are named "movie remakes..." - The backlinks come from various sites (over 20 I think) that have pagerank 4/10 or more! - I submitted my site on Google Sitemaps in April - I submitted my site on DMOZ in April - I regularly update new info (add new content) on my site The thing is even more funny if you take in consideration that: - I have google pagerank 4/10 - I am listed at position #4 in Yahoo! - I am listed at position #1 in MSN! Furthermore, I was about 4 months in the google sandbox! From April to August, you couldn't find any results on "site:www.movie-remakes.com", that means it was not even indexed until August. Now, do you have any idea why is my site so low positioned (I don't even know the position, I checked out first 80 pages then gave up) on keywords "movie remakes", taking in consideration all I mentioned?
I forgot to explain you how the story ends: It was my stupid mistake, really... I left accidently meta tag for robots no index and no follow... I'm ashamed of myself, but since I removed it I climbed to top 10 in a few days.
Yikes! Not the 'no-follow'! I had my own horror story with the robots.txt - I made so many changes to my sites that I forgot to update the file. Consequently, no Google! Glad to hear that you fixed your prob.
I wouldn't be that mad at myself if I didn't check every line of code of every page and thought it says "follow" instead of "no follow". It was left-over from testing period.