Ranking on page 5 for a 1% difficulty keyword
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Hello mozers,
I am going crazy over this. I have designed a new site www.smh.cz. The company name / kw is unique (Smolikova Mikulas Hendrich), but it appears on page 5 on Google.
Yahoo and Bing is fine (in top 3 positions). All the on-page factors are ok too.
All the smh.cz pages are indexed on Google.We have done a 301 redirect of two other domains (sm-legal.cz and smm-partners.cz) which were websites for the firms prior to forming a new one.
I am scratching my head over what does Google dislike so much. Any thoughts? Can the smh.cz domain - which previously had some dodgy insurance content - be the reason?
Your help is much appreciated.
Ondrej
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Still no luck, I have built links and added some new content. The current SERP position is 37, Page Rank has also risen. Seems like an uphill struggle.
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Hi Ondrej,
I'm going through older questions that are still marked unanswered. Can you let us know how this turned out? Were you able to rank for this keyword, and if so, how did you do it?
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Can you explain? Google thinks it is spammy because it now has "normal" content?
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Gogle might think that it's a spammy site, because of the such change.
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There are no shady links pointing to it though. It was a domain broker that just put up some content but didn't buy links or use other black-hat techniques.
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Page 5 for a 1% keyword at Google, with normal rankings at Bing and Yahoo looks like a -50 penalty from Google to me. The dodgy insurance content that was on the domain before might be the cause of this.
More on Google penalities:
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Give it sometime and meanwhile build couple of links.
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