| Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 5:53 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: My site's URL (web address) is: http://AldebaranWebDesign.com Have had good traffic since 2007, suddenly this morning, all traffic via keywords from Google is gone. Checked my webmaster's panel, |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 6:04 PM | Oh, and I'm on DreamHost Shared Hosting. I've seen other folks here note their hosting companies if that helps. I've never had this happen, I follow the same guidelines. Seems like lots of folks in same boat. Please do send commentary. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | webado | 4/16/12 6:35 PM | http://copyscape.com/view.php?o=23486&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.portiawebsolutions.com%2F%3Foption%3Dcom_fst%26prodid%3D0%26view%3Dtest%26Itemid%3D118&t=1334626433&s=http%3A%2F%2Faldebaranwebdesign.com%2F&w=20&i=3&r=3 I just find it a little funny .. coin |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | zihara | 4/16/12 7:05 PM | If you'd said hostgator or iPowerweb or GoDaddy that would be one thing but Dreamhost somehow stays above that gelatinous mass of crap swirling in the bottom of the hosting barrel. But when I took a look at the index page on this one... well... can y |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | travler | 4/16/12 7:11 PM | and the followed links on the testimonials onsite on page ending in /testimonials.php and /webservices-seo.php |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | webado | 4/16/12 7:28 PM | LOL This is what I see of your post, travler: Translated by Google - Irish ≫ English - View Original Always translate |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 8:10 PM | Well, my client gave me that testimonial, and I seriously doubt she went looking for another website to copy from. Totally coincidental. And does not explain ranking well since 2007 and suddenly dropping on Sunday night to zero traffic from Google. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 8:11 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 8:15 PM | My clients are small business owners. They are not looking to WOW anyone. They are looking for simple, low cost sites that are user friendly. I am not an artist. I am an engineer. I was hoping for less mockery and more actual recommendations when pos |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | webado | 4/16/12 8:27 PM | OK |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 8:28 PM | And for those who say the root cause is keyword stuffing, let me just give you a comparison of the top 5 sites compared to mine: "web" mine 3.67%, top 5 7.63%-10/34% "design" mine 5.33%, top 5 3.32%-26.26% "website" mine 8.83%, top 5 1.39%-22.22% "se |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 8:37 PM | This is an excellent observation - and I have indeed seen this trend in my traffic analysis, fewer and fewer keywords are being captured and tracked. I did not know the cause was people being logged into their Google accounts while searching. So Goo |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | webado | 4/16/12 8:51 PM | Has traffic in general gone down markedly or just keyword searches in Google? |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 8:58 PM | Traffic has been "normal", 300-400 a day, until three weeks ago, when it dropped to 170 avg. It stayed that way for 3 weeks, and then last night (Sunday) it dropped to zero (from Google). Bing appears unaffected, but I don't get much traffic from Bin |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | webado | 4/16/12 9:09 PM | I'm asking about all traffic not just from Google. As I said you can no longer identify any hits through Google from visitors signed into their Google accounts. They are hits with no referrer. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 9:11 PM | My answer was for all traffic. Normal 300-400, past three weeks 170, now 50 a day. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 9:14 PM | Furthermore, a search for my business name Aldebaran Web Design does not come up with my business. However my website does still appear to be in the index. Just not ranking for any words at all. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Grandmaster Flash | 4/16/12 9:42 PM | Hello Jill - I am NOT piling on, if no one had responded prior my first response would be the same as the one I'll provide below: <title>Seattle Web Design | Seattle Website Design | Small Business Website Design | Website Design Seattle | | Web Desi |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 9:49 PM | Ok, I will modify my title tag. It did used to be shorter. The duplication issue I discovered and fixed by adding no follow to a bunch of lines that were to help people figure out font size. The site should have 250 or so pages. I discovered that ab |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 9:55 PM | thericker: How about this: <title>Seattle Web Design | Small Business Website Design | Aldebaran Web Design Seattle WA</title> Think that will pass? |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 10:00 PM | And I've added <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" /> on the page that I believe is generating all the false pages which is this one: http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/resources-contentfonts.php J |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 10:03 PM | Some of the "pages" are actually blog articles with /feed and /trackback (wordpress blog) I had these forbidden in my robots.txt |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Grandmaster Flash | 4/16/12 10:07 PM | I believe it will help. Keep experimenting until you find a happy medium. There may be other areas for opportunity as well. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Grandmaster Flash | 4/16/12 10:08 PM | Gotcha! Looks like googlebot got in there before the pages were blocked with robots since there are so many indexed. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/16/12 10:18 PM | Perhaps, I was looking into this earlier today in the Google Webmaster area to see what pages it couldn't find, and half were feed and trackback pages, so I might not have had it correctly syntaxed for last crawl. Now I have: User-agent: * Disallow |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | webado | 4/17/12 4:27 AM | You can get tag, category, archive, author pages to have a robots "noindex,follow" meta tag instead of blocking them in robots.txt (which will not remove them from the index). You do that by using the All in One SEO Pack plugin (or whichever similar |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/17/12 8:14 AM | I do have the All In One SEO Pack, and have noindex checked for Categories, Archives, Tags - however, there is no nofollow for trackback, comments or feed. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/17/12 9:21 AM | I believe I have all of the blog pages that shouldn't be indexed taken care of by robots.txt and by manually removing them from index. Anyone get a huge number of links from http://updowner.com? What is this company? J |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | travler | 4/17/12 9:24 AM | re updowner - ignore them (search this forum for other mentions). |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Grandmaster Flash | 4/17/12 4:40 PM | Aldebaran:I believe Google made some changes, I found you very easily just now with prominent sitelinks! |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/17/12 4:47 PM | Yes!! It just happened. Google did something on their end, it popped right back. Incredible, simply incredible. But I still did things to improve, but Google hasn't recrawled to see them. I am relieved beyond words. |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | zihara | 4/17/12 9:15 PM | For the moment it seems someone inside Google misplaced a special character in a script and many, many people using shared IP addresses took a serious hit. Correcting that seems to have put everyone back where they were in the SERPs. Hopefully, those |
| Re: Have fallen out of all google rankings - still in index - feedback appreciated | Aldebaran | 4/18/12 9:12 AM | I heard it had something to do with my domain being marked as "parked". It was a "bug" that hopefully has been fixed. But I agree, I certainly hope all the work I did in my panic to find my way back out of oblivion helps me. I can see already my new |