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Sitename widget -> www.sitename.com doesnt appear

Am ibeing penalized for the word widget?

         

dupac

3:21 pm on Jan 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

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We were doing fine for quite some time and then december came :( We sell different kind of widgets and we have seperate page for all of our widgets. Never involved in bad SEO work. Tried to be fair in all aspect of SEO. I am sure i missed something and in the last google update in early december we lost 80% of ranking for different widgets.
Did my research and found few things. One thing which was surprising was if I type in google -> "mysitename widget" my site doesnt come first, it used to before december. And all of my competitors rank one for "theirsitename widget" keyword and one of my other site also rank one for the same.

I think time has come to take some desperate action since our site is down for almost a month.

My reasonings are
1) Over Optimization penalty for word widgets.

If this is the case then what can I do to come out of this penalty. I will apprecaite your suggestions.thanks

goodroi

12:30 am on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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It sounds like OOP. I would also suggest checking the Google cache to see what Google is indexing for your site. Maybe it is just not finding that text.

dupac

2:36 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Google did cached whole of the page of our site. It seems like we are penalized for our industry keyword. We used to rank 1st for "ouwebsitename widgets" for last 2 years and now we dont. So we are penalized for the word widgets.
My question is if someone gets penalized for a keyword then what should we do to come out of the penalty.

tama

5:18 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Sorry if this is a newb question but are you saying you can verify a OOP by typing in "mysitename keyword" or "mysitename.com keyword"?

dupac

7:30 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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If i type in "mysitename widget" i dont get my site on top, it used to come 1st for last 2 yrs. After Dec17th its not coming on top. Also for "mywebsite.com widgets" its not coming 1st.
So its evident that we are penalized for our industry keyword