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MarnusW

One of my clients websites : http://www.renta-vw.co.za experienced a sudden ranking drop on 24/08/2012 for 2 of the Keyword terms :

The 2 terms are :

cheap car hire cape town

cheap car rental cape town.

The site ranked top 3 in Googel.de, Google.com, .co.uk, .nl

I'm not sure if it is just a 'Google Dance' or something else at play? I checked Webmaster tools and did not see any messages from Google...

This is causing a big loss of revenue for my client and after doing extensive analysis, I'm not the wiser as to what the issue is?

Please assit.

Thanks,

Marnus

MarnusW

Hi,

I'm an SEO newbie.

A couple of months ago I launched a new E-Commerce website for my client :

The site has over 1000 pages indexed in Google. I've done some link building and on-page SEO for the keyword terms :

corporate gifts
promotional items
promotional gifts

Currently the website ranks number 31 for "Corporate Gifts" in Google.co.za

What I cannot comprehend, is that the site which ranks number 1 is simply shocking!

It is a single, static webpage with all links pointing to another website : http://www.promogifts.co.za

It has 1 back link and a page rank of zero, yet it still ranks number 1? Can anyone give me a reason or some insight into this as it has me stumped..

Some of the other sites in the top 5 are also poor, yet they still rank high.

Our site has a Page rank of 5 and 67 unique domains which links to it ( according to our webmaster tools ) yet it still only manages a 31 ranking??

Any advise would be greatly appreciated as I need to make sense of this, otherwise hang up my SEO gloves..

Regards,

Marnus.