Expert Indexation challenge!
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We have a major and strange indexation problem on our site for several languages for a while now.
If I type in the search query "langsom computer" ("slow pc" in Danish) it used to display the page (www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter/Lang_DA/) in the top 3.
Now it displays this site instead as result #11 which is an entirely different product: http://www.spamfighter.com/VIRUSfighter/Lang_DA/
The same happens for some other languages.
The French search: "Optimisez votre PC trop lent avec une meilleure performance" (Optimize your slow PC for better performance) displays:
http://www.spamfighter.com/VIRUSfighter/Lang_FR/ which has nothing in common with the search and the page intended: http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter/Lang_FR/
Anyone have ANY idea what this could be?
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Hi Matthew, thank you for your response.
All urls have backlinks and generally site wide there are plenty (3 million+). This has been going on for some months now and all experts we have had on it had no explanation.
Matt Cuts should have a support # for this
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When your building the backlinks to your site, are you building them only to the TLD for those keywords, or are you building them to the exact urls that pertain to the keywords you specified?
I had this issue a while back as well. For example. We built towards domainname.com/cash-loans.html, but Google after 7 months made it come up as the TLD even though we built it to that url. In some instances, Google can mess up indexing a site correctly.
How long ago did this happen? It took about 4-5 weeks for ours to come back to the original url we were building to. I also feel that sometimes, it has to do with the authority of your home page over an inner page and that your home page can be easier in some instances to rank terms up.
Have a great night.
MB
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