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Why did my new site rank for a few days for keywords and phrases then drop out of sight in Google?
If you launched a new site recently you might have felt the excitement of being found right away for some keywords and phrases in Google. This almost always (in competitive areas) leads to frustration (out of lack of understanding) when you suddenly are no longer found. The good news is that you get a few days out there in organic search to allow Google (and now msn and yahoo?) to measure your success.
The same applies to those who lost many of their pages to Google’s supplemental trash bin. As you might know, pages put in the stealthy supplemental index are rarely seen (for competitive phrases) in Google’s main index so how do you get the hell out of there? Google has a wonderful gift for you as well; your new content will also rank for a few hours/days or even months to allow the algorithms to gauge if you have improved your relationship with humans (traffic) and other websites (links from).
Thy new content shall go forth and prosper!
Think about it, you have a new blog; Google is interested in fresh content but doesn’t want people spamming their index. Anyone can make a new blog, add content and ping Google so how do they measure quality and separate real content from spam? Again, they allow the fresh content to rank for a few hours/days to meter the buzz it gets. If you didn’t attract any attention simply try again, you will eventually do something that does and search engines will be right there watching you!
Hang in there ye frustrated webmasta, tis good news, Arrrg! ;)
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October 5th, 2007 at 1:52 am
hi contacted you last night on forum and you gave me some useful advice.
Really sorry to bother you as I’m sure you are busy but I would like some advice if that is at all possible. I feel a bit of a fool on the forums. I know you must get fed up of loads of newbies asking you questions.
I’m just wondering which area I fall into so I can do something about it.
I don’t think I fall into the “for a few days” bit as my site was up on the 1st and 2nd page in google for over two months - I have just checked under the site analytics. However I guess I could have gone to the supplemental index, but how do I find out if I am in this index? is there an easy way.
If this was a case of lower ranking for the search term philips x-treme 80% would I now not just be on page 10 rather than say page 1 or 2. I cannot find my site anywhere for my main search terms. I can find it if I type a1carbulbs so that means it is indexed I think and my page rank bar is white meaning I have not been grey barred (banned) but over night my rank has gone from number 9 to gone…….
You mentioned change the content and ping google,can you please explain by what you mean ping google. I’m trying to work out what is my best thing to do.
Add new content and sit back and wait (I am a bit limited on this as the site was set up to start selling a particular thing)
Ping Google - whatever this is ?
Try and get my site added to others to improve the page rank.
Maybe all three?
October 5th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Your site is a few years old yes? Well new pages will rank longer but they also can and will go supplemental if you do not have enough pagerank from human interest via incoming links to your content. It is more of an attention economy in Google today though crawlable 5 page sites can do ok if they keep getting links and people continue to find them useful.
Your site doesn’t have a sitemap? A sitemap allows search engines to find and rank pages.
Here is a good link that describes what a sitemap is and how to use it, I would also suggest signing up for a Google Webmaster tools account, you can ping Google within and also find out where you are failing.
There is also the onsite sitemap that is one page listing all the links to the pages on your website. You could use your “keywords” you have been lost in Google for on this and it could help.
Only two pages of your site are indexed in Google.
The navigation on your site sucks, the links at the bottom go to the wrong place like for instance Why Buy… it would be better to have it go to http://www.a1carbulbs.co.uk/a1carbulbs.html and where is the “home” link? You get dropped off on those pages, THAT is not user friendly. You need a basic navbar.
You are suffering from canonicals.
http://www.a1carbulbs.co.uk/ (and) http://a1carbulbs.co.uk/ are different URLS and you do not have enough pagerank to allow algorithms to balance it in the correct direction.
To make things worse the website is very boring and ugly, how do you expect to attract visitors? Just by ranking for one phrase? It doesn’t work that way anymore!
The sad part is that it would take very little to repair that website but most would charge you a lot and take advantage of your lack of knowledge.
You need someone to make a crawlable site for you, something that you can just add the content to (wordpress blog) the reason you are not ranking is that it is a mess, you have no incoming links (and I bet many more things a seasoned webmaster could find). There are lots of people willing to work much harder to rank for the same things you did and they have, you have been replaced because of not developing and understanding how it works.
You are lacking basic skills, so you either:
1.) Take a course and learn how to build websites.
2.) Have someone set you up a wordpress blog and transfer the content using 301 redirects.
3) Suffer with the rest of them.
If I can be so honest?
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I posted on Google Webmaster (Groups) thanks for the great response. Have you any tips on how i can get my site back in Google Index, i have a lot of content already and willing to do much more to get my site back in Google.
Google indexed my page for a few days right? if they liked it do they keep it or do they always get rid of it and then bring it back to there index or do some stay?
Thanks so much, i have already recommended this blog to a number of my friends who are going through the same problem. I’m so glad im not on my own!
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:35 pm
You need a few incoming links, I also suggest you not put Adsense on a site that is just a few days old. The links should not be bought, try to attract attention to your site to gain a few natural links from related sites. Introduce yourself to others, even ask them for a link if you have to but DO NOT get into reciprocal link trading. If your site is good people will find it and link to it but to start you need a couple.
You are not related to the clown are you?
December 4th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Ok will do, I am unsure what you mean by incoming link, and I will look into removing Adsense, it’s not like i’m getting much revenue, as for the rest I will try. And no I don’t know who the clown is?
December 4th, 2007 at 5:04 am
You do not know Ron?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ronald+mcdonald&btnG=Google+Search
:)
You can keep Adsense, it just looks a little spammy on a new website and people will not link to you from their websites (that is an incoming link) if they do not feel it is real. Anyone can make a few pages about Hamsters and throw Ads on it, what will make your website stand out? That is important to ranking in search engines.
BTW, my son wants me to get him a dwarf hamster (is that what they call them?) have you written a page on them yet?
I also notice you using ugly images as links, remove them and use link text.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:04 am
As you can see my name is Mac not Mc also Rob not Ron :)
Well my main objective is too talk about hamsters through there perspective, so that whats going to make it a bit different from my competitors also my grammar and spelling needs to improve lol.
As for the links, dont make change them, lol, have you got any alternative ideas i really like this images. But i cant see how normal text links will look appealing and bright so that the visitor clicks it.
And yes a dwarf hamster are small hmasters, so you need a cage with very small bars or no bars at all (plastic). There also very cheap and best bought in pairs with dwarfs.
Go to Information > Breeds to read more about the :)
December 4th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Your website is now getting indexed.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:hamster-palace.com
Enjoy! ;)
December 5th, 2007 at 7:53 am
It picked up my forum lol, just not my actual finished site, silly google you recon there will pick up the site soon?