Ok this is really bugging me now! My site just911cars has just gone up to a PR4 form a PR3 but when you type just911cars in Google it is on the 3rd page! Please Please can someone help me workout why this is happening? I rank first when you type just911cars.com in Google and even have sitelinks. It must be a penalty?
You only have the phrase "Just911cars" on your main page text ONCE, twice if you include .com on the end, and even then they have a capital J .... what do you expect ?
But its the title of my homepage and its the domain name and also I have over 100 links going to the site from Yahoo. I used to rank 1st for lots of major keywords on the site (used porsche,used porsche 911), surely I would get more preference than a whois site or some random directory that all link back to the site anyway. Are you suggesting that I change my homepage to fully optimize for a non competitive keyword, including H1 tag, maybe h2 a good keyword density? Over the fact that it might be a penalty? I am totally willing to make the changes to prove a point, I just find it very hard to believe. If I do this and the site does not move much, will the next uggestion be to link build more? Or are you confident that its an onpage optimization issue? Also I am totally happy to rank in the top ten with a Capital J "Just911cars" but I appear in teh same place and all the years I have been doing SEO etc... Capital letters have never played a part. Can you show me an instance where this is the case please? Edit... [I have now added an H1 Tag, I have also included the keyphase in an h3 twice and twice in natural text, it was already in the Title, description and keywords meta] Many Thanks
Google have 1600 page of your site indexed. But it does not appear if you search the domain without com, its true. Strange...
I personally wouldnt worry about it. All the top links for that keyword are sites that link to your site. So you still get the traffic if people want to search for your business name. But optimising for Google is for people that dont know your business and find it through searching for Used Porsche 911, etc... Those keywords are far more important than the business name ranking well. I'm not sure why it wouldnt show up in the top rankings. You have the domain name and title tag sorted. On Page content is not nearly as effective as those 2 things and the fact that you have many links is in your favour. So I am unsure to as why this would happen. I wouldnt stress though. In hindsite it doesnt make too much damage
No not saying there is any point at all to fully optimize for a non competitive keyword. But these random directories that out rank you for "just911cars" have that 3,4 or 5 times on the page and you only had it once. Just saying that IF you want to show for that term you need it more than just once on the page that's all.
i'm not an expert but my understanding is that when you type in just the domain name, alone and without www. or .com etc, your site should come up first. if it doesn't it signifies that there is some sort of penalty being applied to your site. I checked and just911cars doesn't appear in the first 4 pages, so i suspect a penalty but I have no idea more than that what happened recently. you can still have a good pr and recieve a penalty, it happened to a main player in my niche area, has a pr 3 but now has -50 penalty and doesn't show for any of their keywords until results 50-70 or so, pages 6-8, and used to be on the fisrt page for all sorts of keywords. so in your case, I am not sure what more to say. you certainly have a good number of links; one thing that occured to me caught my eye when i looked at the front page of your site was in the navigation bar at the bottom of the page, where you repeat porsche 911 some 18 times, well that may be excessive.... also i don't know what kind of seo techniques you have done recently or whether this is a penalty at all but i suspect so (i would read up on google penalties, there are -30, -50, -90 penalties etc, but it does seem odd that you've lost your rankings etc.....) or this may be just some search engine result page change you have to wait out.....
It's a penalty for sure, after checking around with several specific queries. The reason i assume (i say assume because it was only a quick check) is Google is seeing your site as a whole bunch of doorway pages with substantially the same content many of which offer little or no value. For example: see this query and this one. The same big block of duplicate "filler" text on each page, and very little changing in the actual content area on many pages.
This is very strange, I have never known this to happen before although if it was a penalty i would assume that google would not have assigned you such a good PR in the first place. Try some more backlink building on a daily basis, for example posting heere at DP and see if it has any effect. I had a site with a PR5 and very little traffic because i had two links from PR5 sites, but as soon as i started blogging daily on do follow sites, google strated to funnel more traffic through. It's almost like you have to blog for links daily in addition to getting good PR links to get some results. However this was only my personal experience.
Thanks for your comments everyone, I tries 3 months back to contact Google in web,aster tools but got no reply! I will makes some changes to the links on the bottom of the site and remove the Porsche 911 stuff. Many of the pages on my site change data depending on ip location, but because google crawls only from the US its crawls many pages that seem to have the same content.
Ok, So the changes I have made to the homepage have now been indexed, this includes just911cars being repeated through the page in h1 h2 etc... but little to no movement of the site in SERPS. There is no way in hell there is no penalty on the site. I tried a reinclusion request 3 months back but its crazy that Google cannot reply. How long does reinclusion take?
Google typically won't reply "especially" when there's still issues with the site and you have not resolved them. Ok i'll be blunt here, to Google your site is horrible, lacks any original content at all and has all the characteristics of an auto generated scraper. Take for example: this page It's a scraped link/snippet from Google local and the whole page contains just 5 words if you remove the nav/template. The page title just says "Porsche 911 - Navigation AU" the same as thousands of your other pages. Your footer has a huge cluster of links (associated with tripping auto filters) and you're using a ton of javascript and input boxes for navigation which is bad for crawlers. The page i linked to above is essentially duplicated here and here and here and the list goes on for all the other language versions. Why have a British "and" a American language translation? You have just made a dupe copy of your whole site. I have no idea how many of these sites are floating around but heres another, just the car type changed: http://www.justcraftercars.com Look i know i've come down hard on your site, but you won't get the penalty lifted or even get a reply unless you do a "lot" of work to it.
Sure Bank I take a lot of that on board, there are many pages on the directory that need to be filled with information but that is just work in progress, should I simply blobk google from those pages until I find businesses to list in them? The bulk of the unique content is the 1,980 pages one for each car for sale on the site and some Porsche car reviews. The directory is designed to be an added extra for teh site and not just another buy an sell car site, I am trying to create an aftermarket spin for users. To avoid having blank pages I implemented the Google local listings in places that dont have directory results. Here is an example of a directory page with content The changes you refer to will not take me long to fix and I am happy to do them, thats one of the reasons I am asking questions on the forum, so I appreciate your response.