my site was previously on page 9 but it dropped suddenly!!! now its ranked between 250-300 for its keyword!! and since the past 2 months its not progressing. Also its not generating more backlinks. What might be causing this?
age 9 brings you no real traffic - being page 9 means far too weak SEO and hence lots of daily new pages appearing between you and top 10 serps if you are top 10 then you may be able to have a solid serps because top 10 requires solid SEO
Need more details. You could be over optimizing your pages or maybe linked to a banned site. What's the URL?
If it is critical illness site, it may be down, downtime can affect traffics, so look at ur hosting. Often good hosting can affect serp.
It didn't take much time to spot the first mistake Only had a look at two pages of your site, they had the same title and meta tags (description and keywords). You are probably using the same on every page. Change that first!!! Then let's talk about your rankings again, if you wish ...
Is that preventing it from getting more backlinks from both Google & Yahoo?? koz it has only 1 from Google and around 2300 from Yahoo!!
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.unbeatablelifeandcriticalinsurance.co.uk/ while you may have searched DP forum and found it hundreds of times with deepest disbelief ... valid clean HTML code still is the very beginning of success before venturing into serps or pr etc! http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.unbeatablelifeandcriticalinsurance.co.uk/ below errors clearly are fatal errors for many bots: Unable to Determine Parse Mode! No DOCTYPE found! Attempting validation with HTML 4.01 Transitional. since the first 4 words on every page's meta title appear to be identical - that makes all pages to similar or idential ( duplicate ) content = no interest for the world of major SE - as mentioned already above by monfis. proper SERPS do require clean perfect parsing of all pages. hence first thing first then all else.
never take other error sites as an example to justify superficiality in work - instead take those sites as a positive example that enjoy greatest success in all they do if success is part of your hard working agenda. I spent thousands of hrs the past 10+ years to keep my site as valid as possible - the reward is 2 digits CTR and high ever increasing traffic and a solid xxxx$ adsense revenue/months if you can PROVE me to do better with all the errors - then I buy you a coffee at my place! there are of course difference effects of different errors - but i am never going to discuss or bypass errors here. solid success always starts with the basics of learning and clean work - clean SEO as well as coding wise.
ok boss i got wat u mean!!!but beside theses errors could there be another reason??( if don't mind me asking!)
your site looks like a hidden MFA site - a site to make easy money without getting dirty -- fine for you if your wife is happy with you but there are million OTHERS with similar attitude hence you have many competing web sites in insurance business in general and your site is NOT about regular insurance but about critical life ... Critical Illness ... all kinds of specialties and variations of regular popular / common insurance hence you simply want to offer something with extreme LOW consumer interest / low potential market AND you still have to share it with all the large competing brokers! to get a share of consumers you need to be top 10 SERPS in several keyword combinations ACTUALLY used by surfers everything BELOW serps 10 is just for the tipping and your daily coffee or cake !! all my traffic comes from the large number of top 10 serps or even top 1-3 serps in MAJOR keywords with large total global traffic - and yet I get but a fair share of the cake. if you go extreme niches - then you have a reason but you also may have to cope with the results.