| What kind of penalty is this? Is there a minus 13 penalty?
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atlrus
msg:4445196 | 11:44 am on Apr 25, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I realize most folks here are right now focused on the latest G "update", but I hope we could bang our heads together on this one.
So, I have a UK website on which I have been working for a few years. Good quality content, all on target and quite informative. Strong backlink profile, a bit of link exchanges (nothing excessive), plenty of one-way links from similar themed websites, overall with better link profile than the competitors.
BUT, and here comes the big but, it has been stuck at #13 for it's main keyword! For months! Panda came and went - still at 13; added links and content - still at 13; this latest update had all my UK websites move (either up or down), yet this website is still stuck at #13 ! To make things even worse - it hs been showing on the first page on the US Google, yet maybe 10% of the backlinks are not from co.uk websites...
This is some eerie stuff right there. Is there such thing as -13 penalty or something? Any suggestions?
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linkbuildr
msg:4446003 | 2:11 pm on Apr 26, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Link devaluation is what I'd put my finger on. Take a long hard look at what else you can improve as well (internal linking structure, bounce rate, tos etc).
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atlrus
msg:4446010 | 2:20 pm on Apr 26, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I could understand link devaluation if it was moving down or at all. This thing has been sitting at #13 through all the major updates...
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Shaddows
msg:4446090 | 4:48 pm on Apr 26, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Sounds like a -10 from position 3. Which in turn sounds like you got a manual review once you broke the top 3, and they found something problematic.
I would guess its something minor, like a marginal case of keyword stuffing. So, not completely unnatural, but found in H1, alt tags and everywhere else. Or hammering the same anchor on internal links. Something on-page and easily fixed.
Evaluate the page/site, decide what can be improved or fixed, and do it all in one go. Then sit back and wait at least a month, and probably more like three. Possibly even more if it is your homepage.
If it IS your homepage, you might want to take a close look at how you link back to it.
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lucy24
msg:4446277 | 10:30 pm on Apr 26, 2012 (gmt 0) |
When I saw the "13" in the thread title my instant thought was: typical SERP containing 10 pages plus three images,* bumping you down to the second page from the first page. But, ahem, if you're now at #13, where were you before the penalty? x + 13 = ?
* There was a recent thread about this. If you have a page that would come up in both the top 10 for text and the top 3 for images, they leave out the images.
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atlrus
msg:4446548 | 2:54 pm on Apr 27, 2012 (gmt 0) |
All you guys say makes sense, but it doesn't appear to be my case.
@ lucy24 - there are no images in the serps for that keyword, never has (nor videos or anything other than website results)
@ Shaddows - I have never moved higher than #13 thus I don't think the -10 from #3 applies - I've never been at #3, that's the problem. It's like a freaking wall that #13 spot, never moved higher.
It's really weird, especially considering that I went through a few really big updates and the website has been sitting at #13 throughout all of them - never moved up or down...
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topr8
msg:4446572 | 3:33 pm on Apr 27, 2012 (gmt 0) |
nice to see your observation lucy24 i thought exactly that!
if you're in position 13 and you had a -13 penalty your 'rightful' position would be, erm '0'
if you are fixed at 13, are the pages above fixed in position too? or do they move around?
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Sgt_Kickaxe
msg:4446606 | 5:13 pm on Apr 27, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You may very well have 12 websites ahead of yours that have been manually tagged as most important over the years. Google employs a much ballyhoo'd algorithm but their results are highly human modified.
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atlrus
msg:4446666 | 8:11 pm on Apr 27, 2012 (gmt 0) |
All the websites above and below me are moving, especially with big updates (such as the last one)...
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