I have a question regarding Google. Over the last couple of weeks traffic to my site from Google has decreased. Now it has dropped to zero over the last couple of days. I use an API and digitalpoint to monitor my keyword ranks and all of my top 10 keywords have dropped off to not even showing on the top 10 pages. Anyone know why this can happen and what I can do to get things back on track? Curt http://www.physicallyelite.com
Don't know the reasons for it. I've had a similar thing happen to one of my sites - the site hasn't completely disappeared (it just dropped to #175). I'm wondering if I've hit some kind of filter. Or it could be due to a massive change in the site, from 10 pages to about 300 (litterally overnight). I'm wondering if google's sandboxed me - will soon know as I'm starting to target some secondary keywords.
I cannot see your pages. I'm receiving a HTTP Error 401.2 Maybe Google can't see it either, and that for sure, would make you disappear from their listings. .
Im blocked as well You are not authorized to view this page The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please try the following: Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page. HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected. Internet Information Services (IIS)
It's asking for authentication when I go there. I would advise getting more reliable web server software. When I first had my own servers I used NT4 with IIS4 and had similar problems. When I switched to Apache all those problems magically disapeared. While Apache got better over the intervening time period, IIS has gotten more complex and even less reliable.
Yes -- I just went back to that window and 5 minutes later the enter username and password box had disappeared and was replaced by this:
I am not sure why that was popping up, my site definetly not be password protected. That problem should be fixed now, I appreciate any additional input as to why my rankings may have dropped as the password protect mistake occured just a couple of days ago. Thanks Again, Curt http://www.physicallyelite.com
I think the point of the various posts here is that, password protection or not, intermittent or not, there is something wrong with your server configuration. I was able to acces the site just now. Does that mean the problem is fixed? Or is it just that I managed to hit the site at just the right time? Look at your logs -- my guess is you'll see a lot of 403, 404, 500 type error messages. If human visitors have trouble getting to your site, so will bots. And of course that means that getting the bots back isn't your biggest problem: What good will it do you to increase Google ranking if potential customers are locked out?
The password problem is fixed. Thanks for taking the time to check out the site. Curt http://www.physicallyelite.com
There are problems in the HTML as well: 1. duplicate title and meta tags 2. misplaced scripts, not in <head> OR <body> sections: </head> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript"> //<-- function open_window(url,width,height,scrolls) { var windowstuff = 'toolbar=no,width='+width+',height='+height+',directories=no,status=no,scrollbars='+scrolls+',resize=yes,menubar=no'; mywin = window.open(url,"win",windowstuff); } function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; } function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} } function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v3.0 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n]; for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); return x; } function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} } function NLSubscription(url) { // if(url.indexOf("index.cfm", 0) != -1) { open_window("popuptxt.cfm", 300, 350, 0)} // else if(url.indexOf("/store/store.cfm?do=detail&product_id", 0) != -1) { open_window("http://www.physicallyelite.com/popuptxt.cfm", 300, 350, 0)} } var enterCalled = false; function PromoPopUp(action){ window.name="physicallyelite_main"; if(action == 1){ open_window("http://www.physicallyelite.com/popup/promo_HEALTH5.cfm", 500, 450, 0); } else if(action == 2){ open_window("http://www.physicallyelite.com/popup/promo_HEALTH10.cfm", 500, 450, 0); } } //--> </script> <body onLoad="var SymTmpWinOpen = window.open; window.open = SymWinOpen; NLSubscription('/index.cfm');; window.open = SymTmpWinOpen;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#314194" vlink="red" alink="#660000" leftmargin=5 topmargin=5> Code (markup): 3. lots of nested tables... check those closing tags. Have a look at what Googlebot is probably seeing here: http://www.delorie.com/web/ses.cgi?url=http://www.physicallyelite.com/
nested tables: <table> <tr> <td> this is the main table </td> </tr> <table> <tr> <td> this table is nested inside the first table </td> </tr> </table> </table> Code (markup): I'm not saying there ARE errors in your tables... just that you have a lot of tables within tables -- that isn't necessarily a problem but if you omot a closing tage somewhere it will mess up the HTML. For every <table> make sure you have a </table>... similarly with <tr>..</tr> and <td>.. </td>
I have a hard time imagining how you've been doin' business the last couple of months... Is it possible that Google repetedly hit the site exactly when these problems accured? You either need some good luck or some real serverstuff imho