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I have a site that has not need hit badly during the latest crazy update as some of the others in this forum. But I just noticed something real funny.
My homepage has a page rank of 5, optimised all ethically (I think) and doing very well for all the keywords and phrases too wich I had targetted it for. No complaints there. But there is a particular phrase - standard HTML, very visible on the homepage - which even if I type it in directly in google, it does not appear at all! Nowhere in the search results! For this particular search, it is as if my site does not exist at all.
As far as I know, if a page is cached and doing well and freshbotted pretty often, the phrase that apears i the cache SHOULD appear somewhere in the SERPs. It doesnt. Any ideas what's going on?
You are not alone in this situation. Take a look at these other threads dealing with the so-called "semi-penalty":
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People here have tried to figure out why this is happening to their sites, but have not come up with a believable theory yet. The general consensus is to wait and see what happens when there is a real Google update with a complete and recent index being used.
the keyword is not competitive at all! Thats the funny part!
in fact, its a phrase with 4 words. total results are only 20, so I have checked entire SERPs. my site as it is regularly visited by freshie and cached, this one shold come up easy. I dont even need this phrase, but its there on the site exactly so, and dont show up at all.
Thanks Spica, reading those threads now about semi-penatly.
Perhaps I will see the phrase in the snippet and click through to the site only to find it in not relevant. I go back and check the cache and find the same thing.
They where not competative phrases more educatonal, and the sies involved where very clean. Seams more like a Google glitch
Mack.
