Is it me or Google?
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Hi All,
I'm new here so take it easy on me..
OK, basically i have had a SEO company for about 3 years, they did a wonderful job, for the last 12 months or so i have been in top 1-3 positions for pretty much every keyword i wanted...
On Jan 17th, that all changed, suddenly google doesnt like something about my site... for the sake of this questions lets focus purely on the keyword "CCTV", i use to be 1st or 2nd, it varied...
Since Jan 17th i am all over the place, today alone, i was 9th this morning, then 13th, then 22nd...
I am working on a lot of things my SEO company told me to do, with regards my site, obviously this is going to take time...
but my big concern is that google doesnt seem to know where to rank me lol, i mean, at least if they settled on a place i.e 22nd, then i have a stable base to work from...
Has anyone seen this kind of thing before, and can i expect at somepoint google decides to simply remove me?
Any advice welcome.
regards
James
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hi all, sorry been away for a few days... no work was done to the site around that period...
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There was some activity reported in http://mozcast.com/events for January 2013. Also, have you checked to see if anything was done by webmasters of your website around that time?
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hi james,
only warning i ever got was on 24th Dec 2012:
"Search results clicks for http://www. mysite .co.uk/ have decreased significantly.
The number of clicks that your site receives from Google can change from day to day for a variety of factors, including automatic algorithm updates. However, if you have recently made significant changes to the content or configuration of your site, this change may be an indication that there are problems."
there were two odd things about this, i didnt start losing visitors until Jan 17th... so it seems google told me what was going to happen in future...
Secondly in my webmaster tools there is two accounts, www version, and non www version.... this warning was in the non www version, even thou i have told google via settings i prefer the www version.
i've never had google say any duplicate issues etc... however when i joined SEOmoz PRO yesterday, that picked up the non www as duplicate content... so just to be sure i have asked my host to redirect from non www to www version.
The above warning is not a penalty is it?
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Rankings change constantly so it's not uncommon to see different rankings when performing manual searches on Google. For this reason I tend to track rankings with the rank tracker tool in SEOmoz.
I'm not sure what your SEO company has recommended but have you checked to see if you have any warnings in Webmaster Tools? If you took a major hit you may have a penalty and that would be the first thing I would check.
Let me know,
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I can't answer your issue specifically, but you might want to think about using a URL shortener when posting your company URL for the 'good' reason you stated.
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