I was wondering if somebody could help me with a search engine issue. My wife started a website around 7 months ago now. It's currently a Page rank 2 but doesn't rank good on google at all for its main keywords. However, it ranks great on yahoo. Does anyone know why that is, and could anyone offer any tips on how to rank high on google?
I should also say, that I own sites myself and they rank good, but I'm really stumped in regards to my wifes site. I have no idea why it ranks good on yahoo, but comes no where on google. Her site does have some good backlinks that are indexed with google so in theory she should be ranking on at least within the first 10 pages of google for her main keywords I would think...
Well Yahoo tends to rank websites based on their on site SEO while Google focuses more on backlinks. Here are some things you should try...... 1. Are you keyword stuffing your content and/or meta data? Use tools which you can find all over the web to find out if you are stuffing keywords. 2. Check out the competition! Maybe your wifes competitors have a huge amount of quality backlinks. 3. Is the site indexed at all? If it's not indexed then you need to go over Googles webmaster guidelines, fix the problem, and submit a re-inclusion request via Googles webmaster tools. 4. Do you have a XML sitemap for Google? A sitemap can help you get indexed quickly and in my experience website with sitemaps with Google tend to rank better? 5. Is the site getting a godd amount of traffic? Some webmasters have reported that sites with better traffic rank better. Try using social websites like twitter and digg to boost traffic. I can't really help you out more than that without seeing the website. If you post the URL I can have a quick look for you.
If you provide us your wife's website url maybe we can help trying to find the reason, because sound strange.
I appreciate the replies guys. The URL is http://www.coloringpagespot.com Its a strange one for me because like I said I have websites of my own, so I know the general basics of how search engines work... I'm know expert though. Hopefully you guys will be able to shed some light on this for me.. FYI: the site is indexed with google and currently ranking on pages 24 through 100 for her main/all keywords.
I took a quick look and its hard to say why it is not ranking well but here are a few things i found.... 1. The site a 326 links according to Yahoo and some of your competitor sites have links in the thousands. 2. The website diesn't have any content on it excluding the homepage. Google loves content!! 3. The web pages seem to very similar to one another. Try linking your pages together with the canonical attribute. 4. Slow loading time 5. Not structured well. Yahoo has 141 pages indexed of your site but you can only find a few of them by going to your site. Offer a sitemap at the bottom of every page so visitors can find all your pages more easily.