Competitor in 70% of results?
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I'm trying to rank in the UK for a keyword where one of the competitors takes up around 70% of the top 100 positions. How is that possible? Is this google really giving the most relevant results to searchers? I can't think that a user wants to be presented with the same site on nearly all of the top 10 pages?
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Maybe they will eventually fix the algo... who knows?!
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They are number 4 also so I would presume so.
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Do you know if they're really getting much traffic if they're not ranking much until the fourth page? Most people don't go beyond the first page of results.
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The keyword is f**k buddy in the results of Google UK and the competitor is f-buddy dot co dot uk. The first 3 pages of results are fine but on page 4 it starts to take up all the positions. Been monitoring it for about a month and no change.
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Like Gordon, I've seen short term problems like this, however here in the U.S. I've also seen some situations where one site takes up that much and stays that way for weeks or months. This has been a problem mostly in the past six months or so, but I've also seen it from time to time over the past year. The reason? I believe it's one of the many reflections that Google is far from perfect in their multiple layers of algorithms. Just my opinion and I have not ever gotten an official response back as to why.
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How long have you been tracking your competitors results? I ask because I've been on the receiving end - I've had a site I was working on take up all but 2 positions in the top 150 spaces.
However, google soon sorted that out - and whilst the site still ranks no1 for many of it's keywords, after a couple of weeks, most of the positions had disappeared.
If you've been watching the rankings for months however and it's still the same, then I;m not sure - can you post the domain and keyword?
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