Google Search problems

[alsmith2000]

Hello,

I need help on a MAJOR problem. I have posted in forums and cannot get any answers to my problem. I have give webmasterworld a chance because someone HOPEFULLY might now the reason why this is happening.

My homepage is focused on only two keyowrd phrases.
My page rank is now 5 out of 10. However if you do a search on Google for these two terms my homepage is not shown anywhere. Not even on the first 10 pages. Why?
But some of the sites that dont have the keywords in the title or have a high page rank are shown?

My suggestions are this but I could be VERY Wrong.

1. Is it possible I am being penalised because I have two domians that point to the same pages and its classed as duplicate content.

2. Is it because some of the links by other sites pointing to my site have alt tags with different keywords and not the two keywords i have focused on my main page!

I hope I am wrong but I have been trying to get my head round this for days and cannot get any answers.

Please Help! My business is counting on it!

[trillianjedi]

2. Is it because some of the links by other sites pointing to my site have alt tags with different keywords and not the two keywords i have focused on my main page!

Yes.

You need the two-word phrase in the anchor text of a few inbound links.

Nothing to do with google not playing fair though, seems very fair to me. If no-one links to your site with that phrase in the anchor text, then why would google index it under that phrase.......?

TJ

[edited by: trillianjedi at 11:18 am (utc) on Dec. 10, 2003]

[snoz_woz]

i have had something similar happen to me. my site has PR5 and struggles in google, dont know why. i brought another domian name and pointed at site too. within few days that name was listed. it has no PR and no links to it, other than one i put on my site so google would find it. I now put a 301 redirect on this new domain to the old one, since my whole brnading is based on my domain and this is what i want to use.

[cyberprosper]

florida.

[satanclaus]

What is the link to Brett's guide to Google optimization?

[bcolflesh]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Stefan]

alsmith2000, it's update florida. Many sites are experiencing the same problem. You are not alone.

1. Is it possible I am being penalised because I have two domians that point to the same pages and its classed as duplicate content.

That could be a whole separate problem.

alt tags with different keywords

Alt tags or anchor text? If it's alt tags on image links, then I can't see that hurting.

[satanclaus]

Its likely to have nothing to do with this update Florida business. He never said he was ranked well and then dropped out. He said he doesn't rank.

So is this a recent change or have you just never ranked well?

[jerseyking]

Stop making excuses for google - they messed up big time take a look at ****

Google's results are now so poor and irrelevent to the average punter that it's no longer worth using them as a search engine.

Google will reverse it's decision, not because of a few complaints but a haemoraging of business to other search engines.

[Stefan]

Welcome to Webmaster World, jerseyking. Was your post somehow pertinent to the topic of the thread?

True, satanclaus. I should have realized that... suggesting it was florida was just an automatic response... might have been totally irrelevant.

So, alsmith2000, like satanclaus said: is this new or has it always been like this?

[kaled]

You could try adding links to your homepage (with required keywords) on all your interior pages.

Anchor text is widely thought to be important, however, internal link anchor text may not count. Try it and see.

Kaled.

[alsmith2000]

You could try adding links to your homepage (with required keywords) on all your interior pages

I am currently in the process of doing this at the moment before you even suggested it. Possibly this is the problem.

I cant see how it can be florida for the simple reason my page rank has gone up from 4 out of 10 up to 5 out of 10 since florida.

However i am not showing up for my keywords when i search on google.

Somthing is cocked up somewhere. Its either google or my site but something needs to be fixed.

And quickly

Thanx for your help everyone!

[GranPops]

alsmith2000

Have stickied the answer

GranPops