Ranking problem
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One of our clients sites rankings has been jumping around like crazy and I have never experienced this before.
The site - http://www.tshirtsubway.com
Was 2nd for Music T shirts on Google.co.uk
Plus top of the 2nd page for T shirts.
Then all of a sudden the ranking for T Shirts disappered. Do you think the site could be subject to a spam link attack from a rival ?
What is the best way forward with resubmission to Google webmaster tools.
The strange this is the site is now 4th for Music T Shirts so still ranking ? But for that word it has disappeared...
Head scratching as I type...
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I have seen the same thing for one of my clients. They were ranking page 1/2 for 2 different keyword terms and now they are not in the top 50. Other keyword phrases did not move as much. I am looking around to see what happened or if there was some sort of update...
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Yeah egol but this isn't a case of shuffling a few pages. This is going from page 2 for 3 months to totally disappear ing for one keyword. never had this before.
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Hi
How are you checking rankings?
I see a few on-site issues;
- there are no canonical tags
- a site: search returns the homepage 2nd in the result. product categories are not high in the results for the site: search - just seems a little odd to me.
- the meta robots should read "index, follow" not "all" for pages you want indexed and followed
The first thing to do is check Google Webmaster Tools. This is the best source of problems with the site. Correct every possible thing in there first.
Before thinking its something malicious I would
- verify the ranking numbers you're getting (try different sources like rank checker from seobook)
- review and correct all errors in GWT
Hope it helps!
-Dan
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I see lots of shuffling in some of my SERPs. Rankings going up and down several places. Sites jumping back and forth between first and second page. This has been going on since mid-November. These are mostly retail product SERPs.
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