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I actually have another client who's high volume keyword rankings went down around those dates as well. Now its just amazon, staples, and the other big companies in their market on the first page. But at least Google is letting me rank on the low volume keywords for that client. It's more than I can say for Pets Spark.
Even before January 17th I noticed my keyword ranking slowly going from the top 3 to around 8, 9 and 10. Then between January 15 and January 30th, (SEO MOZ) is not showing the exact date) they all went down to the second page and worse.
The rankings dropped for an e-commerce website petsspark.com. They sell a tear stain removal product which is a pretty competitive market. After January i started to notice that Google was starting to rank blogs, forums, overal product review websites and of course amazon, better than me and my competitors.
Was anyone else effected by the panda refresh or have any idea what may have gone wrong?
Please help
We are considering hiring an outside consultant to help on this issue. Is that what you do for a living?
I took a look at my organic search visits since March. There is no defining day that the visits dropped. Just a slow progression of fewer and fewer visits from my targeted keywords.
Hi Everyone,
I have been working on the website www.PetsSpark.com for a while now. I used to be on the first page for many of my keywords, now I am lucky if i am on the 2nd or 3rd. I stopped my SEO efforts for about 3 months while making changes to the website, its whithin these 3 months that I started dropping from the first page.
The biggest thing I notice is the "type" of website now ranking for my main keywords. Mostly Forums, Blogs, or Product Review websites.
Take for instance Dog Tear Stain Remover. I used to rank at about #5 for this keyword and now i rank at #20.
I'm not sure if my loss of ranking is a combination of things like who Google is letting rank now or if there is something wrong on my website, etc.
Can anyone give me a little insight?? Please....
I will also be happy to give more information about what has been going on if needed.
Well that happened to me a few weeks ago too. I did nothing and when I looked again a few days later, things were back to normal...
I do not think the number of products has any effect. Unless you just had a few products and customers get on the site, don't think you have enough selection and leave right away. Google will take a high bounce rate into consideration.
I would try to explain the design in the product description a little, at least emphasize the color and/or texture, same with the meta title and meta description of each product. But Maybe someone else can weigh in on how important they think this will be before you get to work on that many products.
What keywords are you going after? Do you realize how competitive a keyword like i-phone cases will be?
I do not think that having more products in a category than your competitors will help with SEO at all.
In fact, you will have to be even more careful making sure each of these products do not have duplicate content, titles, and descriptions, the more similar products you have, the harder that can be.
I would also be careful if you have optimized the category and your product list is multiple pages long. Some e-commerce platforms will repeat the optimized category content on each page. I know SEO Moz will consider that duplicate content and give you errors, however I'm not sure how seriously Google really take it. To avoid that problem I usually allow more products to display on each page.
Even before January 17th I noticed my keyword ranking slowly going from the top 3 to around 8, 9 and 10. Then between January 15 and January 30th, (SEO MOZ) is not showing the exact date) they all went down to the second page and worse.
The rankings dropped for an e-commerce website petsspark.com. They sell a tear stain removal product which is a pretty competitive market. After January i started to notice that Google was starting to rank blogs, forums, overal product review websites and of course amazon, better than me and my competitors.
Was anyone else effected by the panda refresh or have any idea what may have gone wrong?
Please help
I have a lot of text for my home page. My plan is to a J Query Plugin for accordion text. Does anyone think that this can hurt SEO efforts?
Well plastic-bins.com does not have a page rank, but it is definitely relevant to your website. I really don't think it would hurt your rankings. I would choose a related long tail keyword that is not too difficult but still has some search volume (that you are not optimizing on the actual website) and optimize for it on the blog. Try to get visitors to the blog through that keyword and then send them to an internal landing page on your website via anchor text with a keyword you are optimizing for on that internal page. Maybe that could help generate some traffic and conversions...
