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Thanks a lot for your time and ideas Lynn!

It seems to be the case with Books, CDs, Video Games & DVDs. Thank heavens these SERP results are still a minority.

This case is interesting:

[La vie est belle Priceminister]

http://goo.gl/0QApO

Amazon is N°1

[PriceMinister La vie est belle]

http://goo.gl/RySHQ
We occupy the first 6 results and Amazon is nowhere to be seen.

Thanks for your help. : )

Hi Lynn,

Thanks for taking the time to look into our problem, it’s much appreciated.
You are right when you say that we are very similar site to Amazon.fr and that we are often linked to jointly in the same articles. But we are an established e-commerce pure player in France and it seems insane that Google would rank an Amazon page higher than ours on a branded query.  : /

To answer your question regarding branded queries, they’re in the millions monthly.

Frustration aside, As an SEO I find that these results really bad for the end users who want to buy a product on our site.

I wonder what Google think of this issue...

Hi Kyle,

Sure our domain is priceminister.com

Hi all,

I have noticed a very bizarre phenomenon in Google SERPs. When I search for a branded keyworks [Product + our brand].
Amazon.fr appear above us on thousands of results. Google even ranks Amazon above us for queries like [ PriceMinister google plus].

I have tried to ask Google about it but I can’t seem to get an answer. Here is the topic I posted on Google’s forum:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/DFvTPr14o_o

This seems like a mistake on Google’s side, some kind of semantic association with our two brands! Basically they are sending our customers to our main competitor even though they specifically searched for our brand (PriceMinister).

I find the phenomenon quite interesting for the SEO community and frustrating for our company.

Does anyone have ideas on this one?

Do you think it's a bug from Google?

Cheers

Oliver

It's all in the Title!

Hi Barney,

It really depends on the size of the site you are trying to optimize.

But Idealy every page should be optimized for it's own keywords.

You also want to make sure that your meta tags are different on every page of the site.

here is a post by Rand on the subject: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tactical-seo-how-many-termsphrases-should-i-target-on-a-single-page

Add this plug-in to your browser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/seo-status-pagerankalexa-toolb/ and you will be able to instantely see a web pages PR & Alexa Rank

If you want to get the PR from a list of URLs in an excel sheet add this plug-in to Excel : http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/

Hope this was helpful!

Oliver

Hi there I have also noted some radical changes in my rankings but it also came with a 30% + drop in organic traffic.

have you experienced similar "side affects"?

Thanks for the answer David. I already use most of these tools I thought that there might be a hidden gem somewhere that I hadn’t found yet ; )