SEO... Strange things happen!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by GBN, Dec 3, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey guys!
    There are some strange things that happen around the SEO in my site. It was professionally optimized. We are on first places by Google search. Still there is something wrong with the Publishers... Now we have less people coming than before the optimization....strange things happen... what do you think about that?
     
    GBN, Dec 3, 2007 IP
  2. lovekills_s

    lovekills_s Well-Known Member

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    A lot more factors at play, Cant answer anthing on the information provided. More details would be required, like what the site is, how old, what kind of optimization done, what steps taken? What does the stats say? etc etc..
     
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  3. GBN

    GBN Peon

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    The site is www.gamesbannernet.com . The site is almost 2 years old. There were no Seo Optimisation at all. We've optimized the title, Meta name, and other stuff. The ststs didn't change. We have the same amount of visitors as we've had before. But the amount of registrations lowered... I don't know why!
     
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  4. MattUK

    MattUK Notable Member

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    Well if your visitor numbers are the same I doubt your SERPS have changed drasticly. Have you altered any pages recently or checked obvious thinks like your signup forms are still working correctly?
     
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    COBSolutions Well-Known Member

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    The traffic is sometimes seasonal too depending on your niche, however it is for sure that first page of google has to get more visitors, just not possible that you are on first page and the traffic dropped
    Hope everything is alright with your host, slow loading of site,downtime etc matters a lot
     
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  6. lovekills_s

    lovekills_s Well-Known Member

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    BTW, did you all notice:

    Checked link: http://www.gamesbannernet.com

    Type of redirect: 302 Moved Temporarily

    Redirected to: http://www.gamesbannernet.com/About.html


    Thats the first thing you need to correct.

    Uhh.. I am sure, you CANNOT get 163,000 links without any optimization.

    http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co....com&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=sfp&fr2=seo-rd-se

    Second, You have lots of sitewides coming from this site : Buzzhumor.com which would give some help at yahoo but nothing at google as one link will be counted and rest all will be devalued.


    Point 4, The titles

    "Increase arcade game traffic quality and volume with the GAMES BANNER NETWORK" Too Long - It could be more clear and specific.

    Games Banner Network | Increase Traffic | Arcade Games Popularity
    Using something like that would make the title more specific, clear and neat. And, infact, the keyword combinations as well will work wonders.

    @ Google:

    http://www.google.com/search?source...236IN236&q=site:http://www.gamesbannernet.com

    Just 5 pages in the index.. Surely, you would want more of them there to be of some help.

    Same Titles, same metas, Prolly, changing those shall bring them back to index in the next crawl

    Your site has canonical Issues as well: That is, both the versions of site exists www and non www, which is a potential duplicate content threat.
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPAB_enIN236IN236&q=site:http://gamesbannernet.com


    To solve that Redirect the non www version to the www version using the following code in your .htaccess file.

    RewriteEngine On
    
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC] 
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ 
    RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
    
    Code (markup):
    use the domain name instead of domain.com..

    And then last but not the least, get links for the inner pages as well. Submit a site map, revamp your pages. You would need a serious SEO service in case you yourself cannot perform the tasks.

    After fixing all that, links will be factor , old links will throw some value but dont stop building more..

    Now I guess that Should Help you to do better..
     
    lovekills_s, Dec 3, 2007 IP
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    Nystul Well-Known Member

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    Very comprehensive ! Good read for everyone.
     
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    silveraden Banned

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    It is happening to every site...and you did not explain what happened really well is..
     
    silveraden, Dec 4, 2007 IP
  9. GBN

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    Dear Lovekills_s,
    Thanks a lot. I'll try to make changes you offered. Good job. I couldn't even imagine, that people with such a perfect knowledge of this topic can be so generous as to help people! Thanks a lot! Appreciate it!
    Thanks to all of you guys!
     
    GBN, Dec 10, 2007 IP