Hi, I've "optimized" a website for certain keywords. I didn't think I wen too far, and until here I've only placed a link on wiki, no other extra links where added. Now, the website (the non changed) seems to be disappearing and appearing in the index. Anyone knows what this means? Google webmaster tells me that the last time they've crawled the page is June 30.
Is it a new site? Have you brought links lately? It could be many factors contributing to this. What your asking is a little too broad. KP
website age: 2.5 Years Incoming links: 25 (highly related, nothing bought) No bad history, always the same related content. How the site looked like before: - Every page on the same level - The top keyword wasn't found on the index page - poor content What I did: - I placed the keyword 5.xx% on the frontpage (also used the footer trick) - meta tags (title with company name, relevant descriptions, one keyword) - did not use <h1>, <b>, <u>, ... tags - placed rel="nofollow" on links to unimportant pages (like copyright stuff) - restructured the whole thing in to silo's with related keywords content - optimized the silopages (again, no links) - submitted changed sitemap to google webmaster - placed one highly related wiki link to frontpage (for top keyword) I have no idea what I did wrong.
Without looking I seriously can't say but if you want to PM me the domain/keyword I'll be more than happy to take a look. KP
Might be that G is getting stuck on your robot.txt. When this happens, the spider times out and leaves your page.
I have been seeing similar thing with my website, one day I will not rank even for my own site name and the other day everything is normal.
When optimizing your web site most webmasters don’t consider using the robot.txt file. This is a very important file for your site. It let the spiders and crawlers know what they can and can not index....
Content should be written for people, not the search engines. But I can respect using "keyword rich" wording. Is your keyword density similar to those of the top ranking sites? Don't go to far with it otherwise it will appear spammy to your visitors and possibly the search engines. What is the "footer trick?" The site structure changes should be ok, and is probably the reason why you are bouncing around in the index. Medium to major overhauls of a site can and do result in a temporary loss in rankings. If you changed the URL structure, you should 301 redirect the old pages to the new. Google has many different datacenters. It's possible your site is being updated throughout their datacenters, which would give you widely different ranks for each. You can try a multiple datacenter rank check like this one. robots.txt is only important if you have pages you do not want crawled or if you wish to limit SE bot activity. It is also useful to reference the XML sitemap, but this can be done through webmaster tools at Google, Yahoo, Live/MSN, and a URL submit to Ask.com. Just continue working and your rankings should return. Good luck
when did you update your website? if you add new content usually GG reduce your index and 3-5 days later increase your total indexed pages.