Severe ranking loss in a week
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Hi all, I rank for around 40 keyword in the first and second pages in google.com.qa, this week im not even in the first 5 for all keywords on that search engine only. Adding to that also any keyword contains qatar on this campaign or my other website also lost position not less than 20! Normally i lose and gain 1 to 3 postions a week but this week it was scary. I thought i was pinalized but when i search for my website or site:my adress i find loads if pages. Any help ? Thanks for your time reading and answering
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Ali,
I did take some time and look over site. How long has it been up in its current form? The reason I ask is it appears you have done the canonical redirect so that www. and non www of site resolve but it is not showing yet in OSE.
When you look at the www. of same OSE shows different result but no Site:www pages show. This would lead me to believe you changed it in the last 6 to 7 weeks.Also, on your linking, the root domains of your links are all just link directories and you need some "quality" other links. Try Active Rain (a real estate blog site) etc.
If you can give us a couple of key words that fell off it would help.
Now, most of your links go to your home page. In the content of your home page you do not have any internal links going out. Pick two or three pages on your site where you really want to share some juice, and do a link in the first paragraph of the content. Do not do two links to same page as it is not advantageous. If there is only one page you want do one, but probably not more than 3.
Also, you need some serious on site on page SEO for this. Your title tags, etc are all off, you are not optimizing key words, etc. Your title tag when doing a search for Qatar (http://qatar.smart-realestate.com/property-gallery) is Luxurious.......for rent or sale in Bahrain. So there are issues.
Your urls have upper and lower case letters which you need to change. Urls should be all lower case.
So, there you have it. This does not tell you why you were up and then fell, but my guess is the site was newer, got a kick up, and now is moving to its real world rank.
Hope this helps you out.
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Hi all,
Still Im suffering on this we read alot of articles but we couldnt figure out the exact reason,
I hope someone can help
thanks to all
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Ali,
I will take a look but the holiday is upon us.I do not know how often I will be on SEOmoz. I will try to take a look and shoot you something via PM on moz. Otherwise, I will follow up on Tuesday the 27th (late your time if you are in Quatar)
Shukran
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@Robert and Rasmus
Thanks for the prompt reply. The website url is qatar.smart-realestate.com, we have done some keyword optimization on every property we upload and we have been submitting articles and press releases as well. Majority of the work done is through link building and directory submissions. We haven't done any major changes in the website.
I have done some readings as well and I found out that maybe it has something to do with Google launching a change in its algorithm. Can you tell me what you think?
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As Robert says, you are lacking a bit of information in order for anyone to give a good answer to your question. However, I will try and give som pointers in how you perhaps can find the problem your self:
If you have Webmaster Tools account at Google i would recommend you visit it to see if Google has sent you any warnings. If not try to look at the development in the statistics. Perhaps Google has been finding a lot of error pages or duplicate content?
It is my experience that a lot of problems can be identified in Google Webmaster Tools - and more than often they are due to changes made to the web site.
Best Regards,
Rasmus
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Ali, there is just not enough information to assist you. You need to provide either a url or some more descriptive data. There are just too many things that could cause a change. The first is did you change anything on the site? Is it highly competitive and have a bunch of new players come in, etc.
I have only see this happen when a change is made to a site. With penalties, there is simply no telling without more help from you.
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