| For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/16/12 7:14 PM | Matt Cutts says have good content...so I worked 18 hours a day 7 days a week for a half year to improve my site with new original content, better photos and graphics, better site navigation, etc. So what did I get for this? I was dropped from ALL ran |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | Grandmaster Flash | 7/16/12 10:23 PM | Hope you don't mind some objective constructive criticism I just reviewed a few pages on your site and think you might find the following article useful: http://www.stonetemple.com/matt-cutts-and-eric-talk-about-what-makes-a-quality-site/I'm not even |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | I know nothing | 7/16/12 11:24 PM | Why do your pages not close the body or html? This then leaves javascripts as the last content, a trick often used by hackers, you're not a hacker now are you? Any idea why you produce so many 404 errors on the site by linking to URL's such as: htt |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | Free2Write | 7/16/12 11:56 PM | http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etravelmaine.com%2F http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etravelmaine.com%2Fattractions%2F |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 2:20 PM | I don't even know how this happened. I am not a hacker! Do you think Google thinks my site is a hacker site and this is why I am being punished? On what pages do you see links to nowhere and the other links you are talking about? Is this something th |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | Ryan Clark | 7/17/12 3:31 PM | You have a good amount of paid links so I'd put suspicion on those efforts. |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 3:44 PM | I'm confused...what paid links? Please advise! |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 3:52 PM | Could a competitor be buying links to my site? Please let me know where these paid links are as I know nothing about them! PLEASE ADVISE so I can get in touch with whoever did this. |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | silyavski | 7/17/12 4:18 PM | that site you give as an example is really pro quality |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | silyavski | 7/17/12 4:22 PM | Your site Ranks on first page for your keyword in the site name. Whats the problem? |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | Grandmaster Flash | 7/17/12 4:37 PM | No closing body tag </body> looks like trouble |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | fathom | 7/17/12 4:45 PM | Paid links is a broad term used to define any link not developed exclusively for the patrons of the link website. Some examples: traded links, reciprocal link, 3-way links, n-way links, blog comment links, forum post drop links, forum sig links, mos |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 5:18 PM | I don't rank first for anything. I used to rank in the top 3 on Google for : maine vacation, maine vacations, maine travel, travel maine, map of maine, etc. Now I am nowhere in sight. I am in the US. Someone told me the site shows up hgher in Canada |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 5:27 PM | I thought it was OK to be in directories that were related to your business? I do not post on forums, blogs, etc. so how could I have this stuff unless someone else purchased it? How do I find out where these are coming from? It does not seem fair to |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 5:45 PM | I use wordpress. How would this happen? Is this something a hacker would do? |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | silyavski | 7/17/12 5:58 PM | I checked all only for travel maine you are on 1st page. For the others you are in oblivion. What does it tell you? Its not like 10 years ago. You need exact match domain if you want to rank. many people with EMD are your competition. So make som |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | StevieD_Web | 7/17/12 6:27 PM | Take a valium. You are bouncing all over the place,..... as if you hair is on fire..... |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | fathom | 7/17/12 6:36 PM | First... some other site isn't your website... they and you are not doing PRECISELY the same things. Let's focus on you: Your links are mostly paid links, here's an example. http://maine-rentals.com/ you are listed "TWICE" (sitewide) on this domain u |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 7:17 PM | There was a site that operated until this spring that added about 30,000 blogroll links to my site. I did not ask for them...it was a spammy auto blog site. An SEO company told me that the site was probably added by a competitor. |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 7:22 PM | Why wouldn't etravelmaine and the map of Maine be of use to the Maine-Rentals.com site since http://etravelmaine.com is a site that covers all subjects about travel and the map is the most detailed free PDF map available on the internet? I own Maine-Rentals |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 7:25 PM | There are plenty of sites listed on the first pageof Google results that are not exact match domains. |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | webado | 7/17/12 7:31 PM | So you're running 2 or more sites on the same subject (which is bad enough) and also interlinking them. Double whammy. You should not strive to do just the same as others - you should strive to do much better than all of them. Maybe then you'll d |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 7:45 PM | They are not on the same subject. One is strictly about vacation rentals. I don't see what is wrong with linking to other sites if they are complimentary. I have lots of links to other sites that have to do with Maine. MaineGuide.com does the same th |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | fathom | 7/17/12 7:45 PM | Well shutdown and become an employee of your competitor... they seem to have better knowledge & skills at best and at worse better luck. |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | ShopSafe | 7/17/12 7:59 PM | Hello mainevacations, :) Consider going back to the start of this thread and adopting as your roadmap forward the excellent posts of Master Shifu, I know nothing and Free2Write, especially Master Shifu's homework assignment. (BTW Beware of shysters |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 8:23 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | zihara | 7/17/12 8:44 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | fathom | 7/17/12 8:49 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 8:55 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | mainevacations | 7/17/12 9:03 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | 奥宁 | 7/18/12 12:02 AM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | TheDonald | 7/18/12 5:31 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | silyavski | 7/18/12 6:03 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | StevieD_Web | 7/18/12 6:18 PM | |
| Re: For 12 years my site ranked at the top and now it does not rank at all. Google has ruined me! | ShopSafe | 7/18/12 6:54 PM |