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Hey Miriam,

Thanks for taking the time. I had been trying to solve this as if it was 100% a technical SEO problem so I appreciate you thinking outside of that box. I'm going to put your theory to the test built some content relevant to their name and see if that gains any traction. I thought the same thing and agree with you that their name is confusing considering they want to target tiki huts, but it's their name and their branding so I don't have much say in that dept.

I'll keep you posted!

Hey Chris appreciate the feedback but yes I checked analytics to make sure it's not referral spam. We have hostname filters, session duration filters, and a filter with a mega list of about 100 common referral spam culprits.

To answer your follow up I also had already checked the content keywords but didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

I also checked the keyword list from GWMT and GA and the terms driving our Google organic traffic are tiki huts, tiki hut bar, tiki huts for sale, backyard tiki huts and several other variations of those same terms. However when I search for those terms the site is nowhere to be found (gave up on page 10). Those terms are generating anything from 40 to 150 visits per month which doesn't add up if those terms are ranking past page 10.

I manage to get in contact with a Google rep and after 2 days of "investigation" they replied saying the cannot explain the discrepancy in our rankings vs GA reported traffic and they can't confirm wether or not the problem is on our end or theirs. I'm grasping at straws at this point.

Yes agreed we're working on their backlink profile but they're not having traffic problems that's where I'm lost and can't explain whats happening. They are getting hundreds of visits from google organic search to several pages currently, however, the keywords are 98% not provided so i don't see what was searched. If it was all landing on the homepage i would associate it to branded search traffic but the service pages are getting 100+ visits monthly from google search even though i cannot find the site on any serps for any keyword other than "Native American Palm Huts". It's as if I can't see the rankings but other people can? If that makes sense.

thanks,

Hey Chris,

It's not a coincidence they have all been indexed since before I asked the question. Everything I can think to check I have and as far as I know everything is set up correctly. The part that has me confused more than anything is the fact the site is getting hundreds of visits (40%+ of the traffic) from Google organic search. That traffic isn't just landing on the homepage either it's distributed across the home and product pages. So somehow those pages are ranking and generating traffic, they have to be ranked fairly high for it to account for such a big chunk of total traffic, yet no matter how I search (besides "" searches) I don't see the site anywhere. Thanks for the help

Nope that's the weird part as far as I can see there are no issues with the site besides the fact that I can't see any results when I search for the site. However like I mentioned there is real (not bot) organic traffic from Google to several pages on the site. So somehow the site must be ranking for others? Thanks!

You must have either made or mistake or not used the correct URL because all 12 pages are indexed (see the link I included in the question). There's no problems or errors with crawling either, robots is set correctly, not using any nofollow noindex tags, no error messages in Google Webmaster Tools and the correct number if crawled and indexed pages showing in both the site: search and in the actual GWMT console. I appreciate you taking the time though.

I have a website nativeamericanpalmhut.com that has been up and running for months. The sitemap was created and submitted in GWMT and the site was indexed pretty quickly. Here's where I'm lost all of the pages are indexed but only the homepage ranks and only for the exact match domain query "Native American Palm Huts". What's even more confusing is that Google Analytics and HotJar Analytics are both showing hundreds Google organic search traffic coming to the site on multiple pages (not just the homepage). This on top of the fact the that website is ranking well for several different terms in Bing and Yahoo lead me to believe this is a Google search specific problem.

I have checked the backlinks to see if maybe there was a penalty on the domain but couldn't find any record of it. I've searched the Moz Q&As, Countless Google forums, etc with no luck. I'm scratching my head at the moment so if anyone has any ideas on what could be causing the problem that would be great.

I have a website nativeamericanpalmhut.com that has been up and running for months. The sitemap was created and submitted in GWMT and the site was indexed pretty quickly. Here's where I'm lost all of the pages are indexed but only the homepage ranks and only for the exact match domain query "Native American Palm Huts". What's even more confusing is that Google Analytics and HotJar Analytics are both showing hundreds Google organic search traffic coming to the site on multiple pages (not just the homepage). This on top of the fact the that website is ranking well for several different terms in Bing and Yahoo lead me to believe this is a Google search specific problem.

I have checked the backlinks to see if maybe there was a penalty on the domain but couldn't find any record of it. I've searched the Moz Q&As, Countless Google forums, etc with no luck. I'm scratching my head at the moment so if anyone has any ideas on what could be causing the problem that would be great.