Can someone please try to explain to me how this is possible? Because I just dont get it! Yesterday, I Googled "video game community" and my website showed up at the bottom of page 2. I was happy. Today, I Googled "video game community" and saw nothing on the first few pages... So I used a tool to check my rank by keyword, and for "video game community" I'm not even showing up in the top 100 Why does this happen? How do I know if I am penalized? Also, my site was PR2 a couple months ago, but after the past two PR Updates I'm back to PR0. Can this have something to do with it?
Maybe because the first try you search for that keyword, your google account was logged in.. And when you try the second search your google account was not logged in..
Good brainstorming, but I use Firefox as my primary browser (where I'm logged into all my accounts) and when I want to Google search I always use Internet Explorer which I never use for anything else... and I'm not logged into any of my accounts. But, just for the heck of it, I just Googled "video game community" in my Firefox browser (while logged into my Google account) and guess what... NOTHING! I checked the first 4 pages and didnt see my website *sigh*
cant see the pr aving anything to do with it serps have been bouncing around a lot recently just keep building your backlinks and it will come back
If you have a optimized a certain keyword than you can expect it to stay if it comes up sometime its just a dance by google
Is your site fairly new? If it is, then it is a known fact that some new sites do manage to get good serp position initially when the owner takes up the link building process, only to lose them after a while! You have no option but to keep working at it! Regards, RightMan
same happend to me. but i get it for two days(my site was on 3rd spot in google for 2 days), then in 563rd spot on same keyword.
to check if your site has been banned google site:yoururl.tld if it doesnt show up you are banned. penalties are a little harder to determine. Another thing to check (stupid shit happens) is make sure that you didn't accidentally put a meta nofollow noindex on your page. This can happen when you upgrade wordpress as wordpress defaults to not allow your site to appear in google results (don't ask me who's dumbass idea that was). if that ends up being the case just go to the privacy settings in wordpress and change that option. Hope that helps
This happens to newish sites - up to 1 year old. Sometimes you show well in SERPs and sometimes you are nowhere to be found. Wait a couple of days and see if things change again.
if it's the first website you have listed there in your signature, it's certainly not banned nor does it appear to be penalized. it's in the google index so it's not banned. looks like quite a few pages are indexed. and my understanding is that if you check with just the name, without the www. and the .com and you are not penalized, then your site should come up first in that search and it does. i assume it's some big algo change and perhaps will return to more normality in a few days....
Wow! How did you find out you were in 563rd spot? The tool I use only looks at the first 100 spots. Thanks, no nofollow or noidenx in my META tags I think you are right. The website is a little more than 6 months old now. It seems like its randomly back and forth! Thanks, I didnt know about just typing www. domain .com to check for penalty!
From my experience of 3 years with google If your website showed up in 2nd page then you be rest assured that it will come back there in few days, weeks or may be a little more, but it will come there for sure, at first place it was shown there because you did almost everything as far as SEO concerned-my theory and it has worked like that for all of my websites that i had optimised....serps dance for a while and then settle down Have patience and "G" will pay you back for the effort and hard work....CHEERS
no worry ... it will be back lately a lot google dance, my site rank at 9 for month and drop to page 96 (rank 960),it come bck slowly after a week
Wow haha I dont have that kind of patience! How did you know you were on page 96? Did you do it manually like saqistation? Checked today... its back again. Weird how these search engines work
SEPRS fliuctuate much Google Dance This is also a good sign can be that you are o the good road Continue your efforts