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Yes, it's the homepage of the site so in the sitemap. I will try resubmitting the sitemap manually and seeing if that helps.

Thanks, Carl

Probably the complete opposite to all the questions asked on here before hehe

One of my online stores is ranking in Google at no2 for a service we used to offer but no longer do as we do not have the contract anymore.We need to derank the listing as fast as we can we do not offer this service now. Normally we could just get google to deindex the page but it's the homepage we are ranking. It is ranking due to a good collection of exact match backlinks on.

Have been trying to get our page off the first page for a couple of months but it appears that we did too good a job of getting it up there...it's not moving!

Anyone have a suggestion please on how we can get off page one asap for this keyword without deindexing the homepage for our store?

note: the keyword in question has not appeared on the site for a couple of months, removing that has had no impact on the ranking

Thanks

Thanks that's along the lines of my thinking. Although given google considers the bounce rate as ranking factor I hope it's just the bounce rate from and to the serps and doesn't include affiliate links

Finally finished and returned an empty report!! Does anything around here work!! If it's not OSE breaking, it's moz analytics not working with G+, keep forgetting Twitter info, cookie problems with chrome etc

A bit of a strange question this one:

I have a domain which, when on my Dutch server, can get new blog posts indexed and ranking in less than 10 mins using the pubsubshubbub plugin. However, I moved the blog and domain to a UK dedicated server and continued to post. Days later none of these posts were indexed. I then moved the domain back to the Dutch server to test this, I posted in the blog and once again, indexed and ranking in 20 mins or so.

To cut a long and tedious story short; In a bid to be closer to my customers I moved the domain to a UK VPS three days back. I posted but no posts are indexed.

Anyone else experienced anything like this? Generally I don't move domains back and forward so much but wanted to test this out. The Ducth server is a 16 core 24gb Direct Admin dedicated, the two UK servers were both running Cpanel.

I understand that it would be best to host as close to possible to the customers but the hardship of getting posts indexed in the UK is becoming a problem.

Thanks, Carl

Thanks for the replies gents'. I guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way of going out and reviewing fashion blogs and try to convince people that they should write a blog on my site instead of their own. I need to establish a strong brand so being invited to write becomes an honour and people would jump at the chance.

Hi

Personally I still use article submission for link building. Although it is now mixed with other link building techniques such as guest posting (which I suppose could technically be called article submission), I find that it works well.

That said, I think the days of sending an article out to hundreds of websites for hundreds of links are over. You need to choose the article sites more carefully these days and it will provide benefit.

I use Ezine and article base as well as Knol, Article dashboard. Isnare is also good if you want the article to appear on lots of sites, but be aware these may not be the best quality sites. nor in the same niche as yours.

Thanks for the reply, customer services. I didn't mark it as product support for the fun of it

I'm a member of raven tools and, maybe it's just me, I dont find it that useful for link builiding. What I do like about it though is the ability to manage all my seo clients and my own websites from one place. It's easy to view the analtyics for a lot of websites quickly, the ranking reports are great and my clients love the the automated monthly reports it sends out, all branded in their logo etc. I personally think raven is a great tool to manage the reporting and analtyic side of my work.

So you have time to respond with sarcasm but can't be bothered to address the issues I raise? Nice.

I had a similar ish issue with an ecommerce store of my own. It has 90,000 products on and I was spending far too long targeting individual product names. It proved to be a false economy to me; while it was good to rank no1 for the actual product name, the number of people who search Google for exact product names was tiny. As A result I have now dropped this approach and I'm targeting more generic keywords such as 'black dress' 'red tights'

Try and target a few dozen broader keywords which bring in many more searches. If you build up your domain authority enough then the individual pages will rank of their own accord (depending on your site quality and the competition, of course)