Rankings Dropped Pls Help!!!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by kattposh43, Mar 14, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi All

    I am working on a website more than few months

    In Jan my ranking in serps was high my site was 1st page for (Lyle and Scott Vintage) in Google.co.uk for http://whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage

    But suddenly my rankings dropped and my site had dropped down from 1st page to 8th page

    I dunno why can anybody explain me this ?

    I have not changed any thing on the site even though the ranking has been dropped is this the effect of Google Dance?

    how can i get back my ranking to the site?

    I am doing my regular works like offpage for the site

    Kindly help me to gain my rankings for the site by guiding

    The site is http://whenwewerecasuals.com/
    Thanks in Advance
     
    kattposh43, Mar 14, 2009 IP
  2. evosys

    evosys Peon

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    #2
    Firstly, if you are targeting the UK then you should use Google Webmaster Tools to set the geo targeting for your domain to the UK.

    Few other points:
    1. Home page title tag - add the word Vintage after Lyle and Scott
    2. Home page - reduce the size of the main image and put some text on the page that includes your keyphrases.
    3. Reduce the amount of footer links - you have six links to the Lyle and Scott page and you only need one.
    4. Your source code seems to contain a lot of javascript. Try putting it in an external file.
    5. Lyle and Scott Vintage page - remove the underscores in your title tag. Reduce the amount of other words in the title.

    Most importantly of all, get one links pointing to the home page and the Lyle and Scott page using the anchor text 'Lyle and Scott Vintage'.
     
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  3. WPOSolutions

    WPOSolutions Active Member

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  4. watershawl

    watershawl Peon

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    #4
    Try adding some paragraphs of text which contain your keywords. Create more backlinks by finding forums related to your keywords. Post to them and to social media sites regularly.
     
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  5. catanich

    catanich Peon

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    #5
    If you look at the bottom of the page, you have used multiple <h1> headers.

    <center>
    <table width="800" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
    <td><span class="footerlinks">
    <h1><a href="http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-2-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage">Lyle And Scott Vintage - Knitwear</a></h1>,
    <h1><a href="http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-3-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage">Lyle And Scott Vintage - Outerwear</a></h1>,
    <h1><a href="http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-1-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage">Lyle And Scott Vintage - Polo Shirts</a></h1>,
    <h1><a href="http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-5-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage">Lyle And Scott Vintage - T-Shirts</a></h1>,
    <h1><a href="http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-12-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage">Lyle And Scott Vintage - Shirts</a></h1>,


    Google will consider this "spamming" for multiple use of the <h1> tag. Just remove the <h1> and </h1> code and you will still get what you are trying to do.

    I also think that it is to many links and not enough text.
     
    catanich, Mar 14, 2009 IP
  6. gr8webseller

    gr8webseller Peon

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    #6
    it is mainly because of drop in traffic ? do your traffic get dropped ?????
     
    gr8webseller, Mar 15, 2009 IP
  7. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    #7
    As catanich pointed out, you have multiple <h1>s... That is NOT valid HTML. Only one <h1> per page... but you can have multiple <h2>...<h6>.

    Also your <title> element is not at all focused ("Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage - Polo Shirts - Knitwear - Outerwear - T-Shirts - Shirts - Shorts")... You have too many words. It looks like you want this particular page to rank for "Polo Shirts", "Knitwear", "Outerwear", "T-shirts", "shirts", "shorts", AND "Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage"... that is too much. Your title should have 1, maybe 2-3 keyword phrases... and only 2-3 if all of them are closely related.

    Why did you include underscores in "Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage" in the title? It should read "Lyle And Scott Vintage".

    I would suggest a much more focused <title> element value like <title>Lyle and Scott Vintage</title> or <title>Lyle and Scott Vintage Clothing</title> or <title>Lyle and Scott Vintage - Lyle and Scott Vintage Clothing</title>.

    Also your page doesn't even appear to be in the Google.co.uk index. Try searching Google.co.uk for "site:http://whenwewerecasuals.com/brands/10000-1/Lyle_And_Scott_Vintage". I get no results.
     
    Canonical, Mar 15, 2009 IP
  8. kattposh43

    kattposh43 Peon

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    #8
    yeah recently i removed the space and added underscore to the site but Google is showing the old indexed data which has "http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/product/504/Lyle And Scott Vintage/Lyle And Scott Vintage True Navy Short Sleeve Polo Shirts" numeric letters

    Google has still not indexed the new pages if google starts indexing will my ranking be back
     
    kattposh43, Mar 15, 2009 IP
  9. shameem2008

    shameem2008 Banned

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    Are you buying link or selling links from inner pages, it has dropped my pr
     
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  10. Cheap SEO Services

    Cheap SEO Services <------DoFollow Backlinks

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    #10
    Looks like the Googlesnake's been at it again. Bite, bite bite!!
     
    Cheap SEO Services, Mar 15, 2009 IP
  11. kattposh43

    kattposh43 Peon

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    #11

    Hi Can you brief me about the Google Snake Bite and how to get out of this problem as this is my main site http://www.whenwewerecasuals.com/ and rankings are going up and down like yesterday it was on 63 today ots on more than 100 for Lyle And Scott Vintage
     
    kattposh43, Mar 17, 2009 IP
  12. lindamood1

    lindamood1 Active Member

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    #12
    check those keywords which rank drop and start doing offsite work as a anchor text for those new words
     
    lindamood1, Mar 17, 2009 IP
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    #13
    May be some of other competitors working well than you or may be some of you back links are not from a good site
     
    385ashley, Mar 17, 2009 IP
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    webbuilder71 Active Member

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    #14
    No need to worry, it will come back up in time, if you havent been doing anything shady.
     
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    eli03 Well-Known Member

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    #15
    it's normal to google to get a sudden drop in ranking, just follow the google webmaster tools guideline "they are GOds", do a reinclusion if ever your site disappear.
     
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    #16
    very informative and interesting post, thanks
     
    jaakko, Mar 18, 2009 IP
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    #17
    Do as the others asked and also do SEO by discipline.
     
    bubaipal, Mar 18, 2009 IP