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Is this still the case? because in the Moz 'learn' it talks about connecting with you customers who have blogs and get them to put links on the sites.

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

*Manual "Outreach" Link Building

*Get your customers to link to you.

I dont know if you think this would be a big factor, but iv noticed on moz that we have 'keyword stuffing' on quite a few pages. This is just a result of the category names on those pages etc.

would this be the cause?

Yeah that might help adding more content to the body of the homepage.

cache:www.heers.nl

I'm not a total expert, but im sure iv read somewhere about Google not liking extra long pages. As your site uses that type of layout, maybe that might be an issue?

Again Its just a guess

Id say the main features that our main competitor has done better than ourselves are:

• get people to share category and product pages via social media
• Their homepage content changes more often because of the new products features
• their urls are shorter than ours
• They added content to the category pages a long time before us

But then they have negative things that i would say should harm their site, which are:

• The navigation has to many links which is bad practice for internal linking
• The footer has a spam page which just targets a particular keyword
• The footer also use keywords which would be classed as a site link. Spam again.
• They also have duplicated content in the products pages like ourselves

and im going to check to see if i can see any changes to their rankings

Also could you expand on your comment above about user engagement?

Thanks

Hi, could you explain your thoughts on this some more. Thanks

We recently changed the descriptions to the bottom as we didn't want all the text to distract from people seeing the products

Thank you all for answering my question.

Im going to try and answer all your queries as best as I can. Iv scanned through our analytics's

• Last year we jumped by 40% after Google lifted the ban in December
• Then this year our organic has dropped from January to May by 50%. There has been no report from Google saying we have had ban etc...

So our thoughts are that its to do with a Google update, but all our main pages have new unique relevant content etc

Yes we are/have removed many of our back links which which understand would effect our rankings, but like the Silkstream says, we are ranking for important keywords. In fact our main keyword beads has jumped from page 3 back to page1 (we used to be no1 for this keyword) So there has been a massive important, but our rankings are still falling.

This would then mean that a lot of our long tail keywords that only get 1 - 10 session have completely dropped off the map. Maybe this is problem?

In one comparison from March this year to 3years ago. there is a

• 40% higher bounce rate
• 35% high conversion rate
• 30% Higher sessions

Its difficult to check everything because we have changed website since then, which was in March 2012 and that is about the same time Google gave us our ban.

I can see that a the main pages that we got our traffic from are still in the top 10, just less volume.

As Mark Ainsworth says, we need to build up our link profile again, agree this is something that we will be looking at and treating with more care. But its confusing when things are looking to be moving forward with our traffic to be improving, but then to drop off again.

Let me know all your thoughts?

Hi,

We have had a Google action against us for over a year. After many "SEO Company's" we found someone who help us remove (December 2013) the action. Which was due to our bad back link profile.

We have 100% improved our content for our website, as Google has requested. We are active within social media, we add relevant content to our blog and we clean up our desk after we finish work

After looking at Moz tools we have great results, sometimes even better than our competitors. But we are still not getting or improving on our traffic, if anything its decreasing.

Is anyone else in the same position? or has anyone recovered from a similar situation?

Josh

I'm not a total expert, but im sure iv read somewhere about Google not liking extra long pages. As your site uses that type of layout, maybe that might be an issue?

Again Its just a guess