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Hi Mat

Being trying the GA and this is giving me a headache but looking at a tutorial on the web I am looking for Panda and/or Penguin and entered the dates given and will try to attach it here.

Bz 1 April - 15 May 2012

We have been on Page One on Google US from inception since 1995.

We notice on GWT about 2,000 backlinks from a defunct link directory. This goes up and down depending on the weather. Right now it has fallen to about 600. Here is a sample link:

http://caribbeanlinks.com/opensearch?query=Belize Cruise&hitsPerSite=4&lang=&hitsPerPage=20

We never asked to be linked there and have written several times but no response.

@NAKULGOYAL - we do well on long tail for example:

retirement in belize

living in belize

belize offshore banking

getting married in belize

belize maya

top ten things to do in belize

and many others

@mattbennet

I see your point but I do not believe we could be NOWHERE to be found for our main keyword - as stated above we have been on page one for our main keyword since 1995.

I have been baffled for the past few months for ranking for the misspelling of our primary keyword BELIZE in the Google U.S. Serps.

We are nowhere to be found, but are ranking for the misspelling BELIZ (without the final "e").

We have been online since 1995 on page one everywhere. 11 months ago we did a site redesign changing over to WP as a CMS.

We changed all pages from widget-example.html to widget-example and properly 301ed all pages after deleting the old pages.

Then we accidentally de-indexed the site for a month due to a robots.txt error. This has been corrected 4 months now.

We shared this on the Google Webmaster forums and some kind folks helped with advice - nothing major in our opinion but we implemented most of the tips given.

We are doing fine everywhere with all search engines and Google itself in other areas Google.ca Google.bz Google.mx for example.

But in our primary market is the U.S. where the majority of our readers are - tourists and retirees looking for our information - we do not exist.

The joke is that searching for BELIZ in the U.S. Google Serps has us on Page One. It is a joke that is NOT funny - or maybe some human evaluator made a mistake or is playing a sick joke?

We have done a reconsideration request in case there was a manual penalty and we received the no manual penalty form letter.

I notice increasingly in Google Live Analytics people typing in our full domain name - I guess out of frustration not getting the site when inputting the primary keyword.

I find that I can write a new article and in a couple of weeks it ranks in the top couple pages. Many other pages are found via long-tail only.

I find it intriguing that yesterday I wrote a very small article, a press release actually, and today searching for the misspelling BELIZ in the U.S. Google Serp the root domain is ranked #2 and the snippet and image displayed is from this little article which is nothing really great.

I am new here. Thanks to anyone who can help.

The site:

Belize

http://www.belize.com