Hi I'm currentley working on a website for the past 3 months All started well - straight in on page 1 for a relativley uncompetative phrase (30,000 matches). It then plummited off the face of the earth, but re-appeared on page 7 for a few weeks It went down to page 9, before back on page 7 and then page 5 yesterday. It is now on page 16?! For the phrase. Out of the 30+ pages on the sitemap, less than 20 are indexed, all content is unique. I'm looking for advice, but don't want to add the url on here, so if anybody willing to take a look, or offer advice, I'll gladly PM the url. many thanks
Rankings of new sites can fluctuate a lot. Work at getting more quality backlinks and keep adding more content. In time your rankings should settle down.
Organic rank for a single phrase is entirely meaningless unless you appear in the top 5 results. Most people don't even bother clicking the links on the first 10. They select only a few of those, then if they do not find what hey want they research again. The last number I read from a source I deem reliable quoted 11% will view the second page of a search result. So STOP worrying about anything that is not Top 5. There are so few spots in the real money slots of Organic Search. Figure out how to get traffic from OTHER sources. It doesn't matter where they come from as long as they are your target, and you know what to do with them when they hit your site.
There are so many reasons why this could be happening. It definitely needs to be analyzed. You also sound like you don't completely know what are you doing when it comes to seo. Let an expert handle this so that your website does not get sandboxed - when it gets sandboxed you're finished.
Hi It is possible that it is "sandboxed" to a certain extent, or atleast the links have been dampened/not counted as it's only really three months old. Don't really want to post the url on here for personal reasons...have had a PM offering to take a look, will post any findings/observations as they may be useful for others when the thread is archived!
In the event you do not want to post your URL.... 1. See where your site ranks in Google for: allinanchor:keyword If the rank is comparatively close for allinanchor and your listing, that is normal in many cases. 2. Look for duplicate content. For example, non www and www both indexed in Google. Also exampledomain.com and exampledomain.com/index.php. IMO the sandbox does not exist. Google has many datacenters. When a newer site is launched and promoted, its ranks will not stabilize until all the datacenters are updated. Get some quality links, and your ranks will improve and stabilize. Good luck with your site.
thats normal for site that new. just keep building links and over time your ranking will be more stabilized. what you need is a solid base
thanks for the response the truth is though the site isn't exactley new, it's three months old now, and was originally highly ranked, and moved back up onto page 5, before now being on page 16? Perhaps its a down-before-an up, but im beginning to think there is more to it?
I've checked those, the links have dropped by about 10 (reverted back to the amount they had been before the update). Article and directory work has been the bulk (few blogposts to - but those are still showing up in the webmaster tools). So I'm not too sure if that is related I've done the following - Changed some of the names of the links to my keyphrases (e.g instead of "blue jam" changing to "buy blue jam") - removed reference to links to /index.htm and instead pointed those to the domain name. Removed the /index.htm from google in the webmaster tools and blocked it in robots.txt - resubmitted site map Guess now I have to wait? Any other suggestions?