Need advanced SEO help!
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Hi guys,
This is my last attempt to work out what is up with this site before it goes to the big Flipper in the sky (and even then I doubt it will make much more than £1!)
This site was a successful site, then one day Google decided it didnt like it, and I have not had much joy with it for nearly a year now. I must admit I tried to forget about it for a while, but it has always been a thorn in my side due to the fact it used to be a nice little earner.
I have SEOmoz crawled it and I cant find any issues that would cause such a severe penalty, I removed many of the affiliate links, clocked the rest of the affiliate links and tried numurous other ideas, but now, as a last ditch attempt I am looking for some help!
I tried to avoid the typical thin affiliate site by adding relevant content, but I have seen sites with much poorer design and content rank higher than this one.
Any ideas welcome!
Thanks in advance
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You've not got that much in terms of link diversity, or from much that's relevant. Directories, blogs and forums, links pages, etc... that don't pass a lot of value. 11 Linking Root Domains, including directories, some are nofollow. Not a lot in terms of quality links. And then your anchor text needs a little more diversity too: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/www.nintendowiifitconsole.co.uk%252F/a!anchors
Google will often let a new site rank well for a bit before knocking it back down again.
Also, my personal belief is that Google's not all that keen on affiliate sites anyway... I lost rankings on mine from Panda.
I reckon all in all, if you get some more, higher quality links... and as it appears now some social signals too, then you'll start ranking much better
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You are being displaced by sites with much stronger domain authority. Yours is 22 and you are competing against sites with 60+.
You need more links from strong sites. You only have 19 linking root domains compared to sites having thousands.
I would also start using social networking by including Facebook LIKE and ShareThis on each product.
All that I would say is that much stronger sites have come into the market and pushed you down.
a) Work on on-page optimization to ensure keywords are optimized
b) build strong inbound links
c) get your social on
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P.s I also used to rank for 'Nintendo wii fit console' (my domain name) & 'my personal golf trainer' at the top, but now I give up searching past page 10 for it.
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It is indexed, but for example, I used to be on the top of page one for the term 'red wii console' and it would go to the designated red wii page, but now I am on page 8 with a page that has nothing to do with the red wii?!
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I thought maybe that, but there are no warnings anywhere, plus I have another site with a brand name in it which does fine!
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I'm wondering if there is an issue with the fact that you are using brand names/trademarks in your url?
Do you have any warnings in your webmaster tools?
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What does Google not like? It is indexed by Google. Are you not ranking for terms? Which ones?
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