Rankings got dropped
-
We were ranking no 1 on couple of keywords in our countries local Google Search but from last 3-4 days we have dropped to 2-3 though we havent made any changes. Any suggestion?
Google: www.google.com.pk
Keywords:
Used Cars
Cars for sale
-
Sean is right. Earning the #1 spot on Google is the first step. You need to constantly focus SEO in order to keep your position. The SEO algorithms are constantly being adjusted and these changes may have a positive or negative on your site, and the sites of your competitors.
You also need to understand that everyone else on the first page would like to take the #1 spot from you, and they hire SEO specialists with the specific instructions "do what is needed to get the #1 spot".
You have opportunities for improvement on your current page. Focus on your SEO and you can get the #1 spot back:
-
Your current title for the "used-cars" page with is in the #2 spot is: "Used Cars for sale in Pakistan, Find Used Suzuki, Toyota, Honda and more | Pakwheels". A lot of that can be moved to your description. I would recommend either "Used Cars | Pakwheels" or "Used Cars for sale in Pakistan | Pakwheels". Too many words in your title dilutes the importance of your key words.
-
In your footer you of your "used cars" page you offer a link to another "used cars" page. It is actually the same page but the URL is different and you have not added the canonical tag to your pages. Unless you have went in to Google WMT and specifically set up your parameter settings Google may not handle this well. You should be very consistent with your links and anchor text.
-
You use the H1 tag 3 times on the page. By design, the H1 tag is meant to be used once per page. The other tags should be H2 or something different.
There are other opportunities but these are just a few that stood out for me. Good luck.
-
-
The most iikely reason is that your competitors have made changes to their sites and/or back links. Do you use Seomoz to run comparisons between your site and that of your competitors? This might give you an insight into changes..
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Should I create additional pages for to try to rank for alternative keywords?
Hi I have my primary product page https://www.planacademy.com/primavera-p6-training/ - that ranks well for and is optimized for "primavera p6 training". However, I'd the same page to rank well "primavera p6 online course". Do I create another version of this page optimized for these different keywords? Or do I try to get the 1 page to rank for both? A bit confused here as to what to do. Thanks.
Keyword Research | | plannerguy0 -
Does the traffic that a page get affects the page ranking?
I am asking this as I would like to know if we can include this advice in our Search strategy. For instance, can we say for the keywords that has high business priority, but we are not currently rank above the fold we can boost the traffic and therefore the organic ranking by investing on these keywords on PPC.
Keyword Research | | aliki_rigopoulou0 -
Changed from www to non-www lost all rank. Will it return?
My web site used https://www.domain.com for the past 18 months. We finally got to #3 position for our top keyword. We changed web servers and our wordpress admin section somehow got changed to https://domain.com. As you can imaging I'm not too happy. We do have 301 redirects installed. Yesterday I noticed that our site was not ranking anymore. In fact, all our pages and our site URLs at https://www.domain.com have been de-indexed. I assume because that no longer exists. Using site: all the web pages under https://domain.com (which were identical to the old www) are now listed. All of them. However, none are showing in searches unless we search for the business name. They are not appearing under keyword searches. I would assume that the 301s (which are installed property) would make the site keep it's rank, as the pages are all identical. Will we ever get our rank back? Should we switch back to www? Or do the 301s just take time to hit? How long if that's the case?
Keyword Research | | ThereNYC0 -
How do you check keyword rankings for your sites?
The other day I used Rank Tracker form SEO PowerSuite and SEO small tools ranking checker http://smallseotools.com/keyword-position/ to check a keyword ranking. Both said that my clients keyword is not in top 50, but when I used Rank Tracker from Moz.com it showed that my client's keyword ranks #30 ! What's the tool that works for you all the time and is 100% reliable?
Keyword Research | | vitaliykolos1 -
What is the best way to do a one time rankings check of 10000+ keywords
Title pretty much sums it up. At the pricing moz offers this is not practical. Even at their highest tier i would only get 3700 keywords, so it would take several months to get the results.
Keyword Research | | adriandg0 -
Does adding the suffix "-ing" affect ranking for a keyword? E.g. "build" vs "building"
In other words, let's say the keyword I wanted to rank for was "building a home" but the SERP only showed sites ranking for "build a home". If I specifically optimized my page for "building a home" would that increase my chances for ranking for "building a home"?
Keyword Research | | JanssenM.0 -
Keyword Analysis ranking is not according to google
I'm confused with Keyword Analysis tool because when i run it it show me like this: Keywords: Alpaca Scarves Rank 1. page1 2 page2 3 page3 4 page4 Rank 1: page1 p. authority: 26, page linking root domains: 2 domain autority: 31 root domain linking root domains: 33 Rank 4: page4 p. authority: 26, page linking root domains: 2 domain autority: 45 root domain linking root domains: 232 I think that the rank 4 should be in the 1. can you help me to understand it? Alfredo
Keyword Research | | russelgz0 -
Best site/tool to get exact rank of a site
Is there a site/tool that will give me the exact google rank of a site for a specific keyword?
Keyword Research | | JML11790