Why google does not show my site on my branding keyword?
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Hi,
I am the site owner of http://www.lankahq.net. It is a youtube video hosted website. 95% of the video contents are daily telecasting TV shows and categorized to make easy to find the specific video of the day of preferred program of the viewer.
About 1 year ago suddenly disappeared my site from the google. Before happened that it was performing very well in search. Google showed my site contents within few minutes after I update in their search results when someone search for that.
At the moment it does not show even some one search for "lankahq". It showing only if search for "lankahq.net", "lankahq.com" or "www.lankahq.net" something like a search keyword related to my domain name.
Some other websites have added my branding keyword LankaHQ as a user of their site and they showing on top of Google. But not mine.
It is much appreciated if someone can have a look on this matter. I can not find where is the problem.
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Thanks for your response.
As you guided me to check the google update history, I have followed it well. But I could not find a related point for this matter. I have done On Page Optimizations for my pages about 1 month ago.
And after that I saw that it ranked much better in google in last week. But after I noticed that it is dropping again. In google webmaster tools I can see the number of pages crawled also started to going down.
Still confused.
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As Saijo states, your site has not been de-listed, it's just not ranking very well. Have a look at the Google update history (http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change) and see if the drop in rankings corresponds with any of these updates. This could help you to pinpoint what the problem is and how you can rectify it.
Good luck!
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Your site is not de listed : try goggling for
site:lankahq.net
but there could be a manual penalty on there for any number of reasons. It might be in your best interest to hire a pro who can go through the site and identify it .
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