> Since you no longer have the redirection in place, these backlinks are
> lost.
> On Jul 13, 6:08 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > Verify tag?
> > And yeah it isn't weird at all that 6,000 uniques a day disappeared
> > from Google down to a few where there is nothing else to rank or the
> > terms get so little traffic it doesn't matter.
> > The home page used to rank top 3 in g.com .co.uk and every other
> > country - for computer forum(s), computer help, computer repair(s),
> > computer support and the sub pages ranked for 10,000's of other
> > phrases.
> > > To be honest... there not what I'd call unusual results I'm seeing...
> > > you rank for your titles... your indexed etc...
> > > I'm no seeing anything problematic.
> > > I did notice that your verify tag is wrong though :D- Hide quoted text -
> Since you no longer have the redirection in place, these backlinks are
> lost.
> On Jul 13, 6:08 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > Verify tag?
> > And yeah it isn't weird at all that 6,000 uniques a day disappeared
> > from Google down to a few where there is nothing else to rank or the
> > terms get so little traffic it doesn't matter.
> > The home page used to rank top 3 in g.com .co.uk and every other
> > country - for computer forum(s), computer help, computer repair(s),
> > computer support and the sub pages ranked for 10,000's of other
> > phrases.
> > > To be honest... there not what I'd call unusual results I'm seeing...
> > > you rank for your titles... your indexed etc...
> > > I'm no seeing anything problematic.
> > > I did notice that your verify tag is wrong though :D- Hide quoted text -
> > Since you no longer have the redirection in place, these backlinks are
> > lost.
> > On Jul 13, 6:08 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > Verify tag?
> > > And yeah it isn't weird at all that 6,000 uniques a day disappeared
> > > from Google down to a few where there is nothing else to rank or the
> > > terms get so little traffic it doesn't matter.
> > > The home page used to rank top 3 in g.com .co.uk and every other
> > > country - for computer forum(s), computer help, computer repair(s),
> > > computer support and the sub pages ranked for 10,000's of other
> > > phrases.
> > > 6k - nothing.
> > > On Jul 13, 11:00 pm, Autocrat wrote:
> > > > I've tried doing some searches on Titles...
> > > > To be honest... there not what I'd call unusual results I'm seeing...
> > > > you rank for your titles... your indexed etc...
> > > > I'm no seeing anything problematic.
> > > > I did notice that your verify tag is wrong though :D- Hide quoted text -
> > > Since you no longer have the redirection in place, these backlinks are
> > > lost.
> > > On Jul 13, 6:08 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > > Verify tag?
> > > > And yeah it isn't weird at all that 6,000 uniques a day disappeared
> > > > from Google down to a few where there is nothing else to rank or the
> > > > terms get so little traffic it doesn't matter.
> > > > The home page used to rank top 3 in g.com .co.uk and every other
> > > > country - for computer forum(s), computer help, computer repair(s),
> > > > computer support and the sub pages ranked for 10,000's of other
> > > > phrases.
> > > > 6k - nothing.
> > > > On Jul 13, 11:00 pm, Autocrat wrote:
> > > > > I've tried doing some searches on Titles...
> > > > > To be honest... there not what I'd call unusual results I'm seeing...
> > > > > you rank for your titles... your indexed etc...
> > > > > I'm no seeing anything problematic.
> > > > > I did notice that your verify tag is wrong though :D- Hide quoted text -
You clearly have a popular site, and lots of interest, support and
value.
One way or another it will pick back up.
We jsut need to wait it out a little while to ensure that it's not
jsut a silly glitch...
and whilst waiting go over the site with a very very fine tooth comb.
Options...?
Wait.
Check site for spam/hacks
Check site for silly errors
Check server for silly errors
Check inbound links
Roll back to prior version
Improve onsite/onpage SEO
A fair whack of things to go over...
It's simply a matter of going through the steps and ticking boxes etc.
sucks, but best to be safe.
Once 100% convinced there is no 'fault' ... you could file for
reconsideration, incase something has happened.
> Looking for a few other opinions on why my site no longer ranks.
> It was getting 6-7,000 visits a day and ranked for 10,000's of terms.
> Yet yesterday over the course of 2 hours all traffic from Google
> stopped. It was like someone just turned the lights out.
> I am still fully indexed and rank No.1 for my site name or domain name
> and a few other non competitive terms so I don't appear to be banned
> or manually penalized.
> Webmaster tools reported around 1,000 duplicate meta and title tags a
> few days back due to a bad upgrade of the vbseo forum software which
> has already been fixed. I can't see this as a cause for a whole site
> being dropped because of a few duplicate tags.
> Other than that I have tweaked a few things like on page optimization,
> sitemap, allowing outgoing links, few blocks in robots.txt to stop the
> bot wasting time and removing loads of poor quality threads/pages/
> content.
> I have been reading online Google has been chucking some good sites
> out for no real reason lately and may be having some issues but
> thought I'd ask if anything stands out to anyone all the same.
> Maybe even Google staff could comment, I feel my site is ultra clean
> and a good example of a quality site the deserves to rank, many others
> have told me the same.
> Out of interest what would be a rational time to wait to see if the
> changes I have made will make any difference?
> Thanks all.
> On Jul 13, 1:40 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Looking for a few other opinions on why my site no longer ranks.
> > It was getting 6-7,000 visits a day and ranked for 10,000's of terms.
> > Yet yesterday over the course of 2 hours all traffic from Google
> > stopped. It was like someone just turned the lights out.
> > I am still fully indexed and rank No.1 for my site name or domain name
> > and a few other non competitive terms so I don't appear to be banned
> > or manually penalized.
> > Webmaster tools reported around 1,000 duplicate meta and title tags a
> > few days back due to a bad upgrade of the vbseo forum software which
> > has already been fixed. I can't see this as a cause for a whole site
> > being dropped because of a few duplicate tags.
> > Other than that I have tweaked a few things like on page optimization,
> > sitemap, allowing outgoing links, few blocks in robots.txt to stop the
> > bot wasting time and removing loads of poor quality threads/pages/
> > content.
> > I have been reading online Google has been chucking some good sites
> > out for no real reason lately and may be having some issues but
> > thought I'd ask if anything stands out to anyone all the same.
> > Maybe even Google staff could comment, I feel my site is ultra clean
> > and a good example of a quality site the deserves to rank, many others
> > have told me the same.
Another thing I have noticed recently is that even though the site
command on my old domain that IS 301'd to the new one shows 2 pages
still indexed after 6 months I am still getting hits from other pages
not showing in the site command.
> > It complains that both your nameserves are on the same subnet mask and
> > you have a single point of failure.
> > In fact your 2 nameservers are one and the same, being on the same IP.
> > If that's down, if network problems rpevent traffic to that one
> > nameserver, it's lights out.
> > And even worse, yoru site is on the same IP as the nameservers.
> > > Seems Google stopped indexing in blogsearch on the same day I upgraded
> > > the software, strange.
> > > On Jul 13, 10:22 pm, webado wrote:
> > > > Well that is all I could come up with.
> > > > I would ask also how you measure your Google traffic. It may not be
> > > > entirely accurate either especially if you are relying third party
> > > > tracking scripts like Google Analytics. It could be quite understated.
> > > > It's entirely possible IMO that many visitors are in fact flying under
> > > > the radar and don't' get detected for various reasons, usually having
> > > > to do with increased security/privacy settings in their browsers,
> > > > disabling referrers, etc.
> > > > Also a simple Google search where you use the Feeling Lucky option
> > > > will show no referrer information.
> > > > How is the overall traffic, measured at the server level, regardless
> > > > of whether it's from Google or not?
> > > > On Jul 13, 5:06 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for the response.
> > > > > I noticed a site called feedage was doing the same.
> > > > > I have disabled RSS, is this your advice also as this is technically
> > > > > duplicate content and as you say I'd rather people visit the actual
> > > > > site.
> > > > > > You seem to be getting some competition from boardreder.com .
> > > > > > Maybe you also have feeds and many people might only read the feeds
> > > > > > rather than visit the forum proper.
> > > > > > You are disallowing /forums/rss.php but not the actual rss feed.
> > > > > > On Jul 13, 8:40 am, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > > Looking for a few other opinions on why my site no longer ranks.
> > > > > > > It was getting 6-7,000 visits a day and ranked for 10,000's of terms.
> > > > > > > Yet yesterday over the course of 2 hours all traffic from Google
> > > > > > > stopped. It was like someone just turned the lights out.
> > > > > > > I am still fully indexed and rank No.1 for my site name or domain name
> > > > > > > and a few other non competitive terms so I don't appear to be banned
> > > > > > > or manually penalized.
> > > > > > > Webmaster tools reported around 1,000 duplicate meta and title tags a
> > > > > > > few days back due to a bad upgrade of the vbseo forum software which
> > > > > > > has already been fixed. I can't see this as a cause for a whole site
> > > > > > > being dropped because of a few duplicate tags.
> > > > > > > Other than that I have tweaked a few things like on page optimization,
> > > > > > > sitemap, allowing outgoing links, few blocks in robots.txt to stop the
> > > > > > > bot wasting time and removing loads of poor quality threads/pages/
> > > > > > > content.
> > > > > > > I have been reading online Google has been chucking some good sites
> > > > > > > out for no real reason lately and may be having some issues but
> > > > > > > thought I'd ask if anything stands out to anyone all the same.
> > > > > > > Maybe even Google staff could comment, I feel my site is ultra clean
> > > > > > > and a good example of a quality site the deserves to rank, many others
> > > > > > > have told me the same.
> Cool, I'm here for advice not to hire anyone, I do my own SEO.
> You also suggest taking your free advice but I don't see any.
> On Jul 13, 6:19 pm, lots0 wrote:
> > HI Dave,
> > Theey reported me because I was warning you NOT to hire anyone form
> > this forum to do SEO work or "Website repair" there are several
> > incompetant wannabe SEOs here that are more than willing to sell you
> > sub-par services, in other words basically rip you off... Please don't
> > buy into the "your site is so bad, you need me to rescue it" routine
> > that gets pulled here by several of the wanna be incompetant SEOs
> > here.
> > Take the free advice... Because it's free and you can find the exact
> > same information in google webmaster help, that you will find here.
> > But like I said, if you hire anyone form this forum for SEO or website
> > repair you'll be sorry.
> > On Jul 13, 11:00 am, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > The stuff I listed I changed I did after the traffic loss.
> > > The pages removed had no links. Mostly anyway.
> > > On Jul 13, 5:58 pm, Autocrat wrote:
> > > > No you ...Dave Hybrid...
> > > > reported ...lots0... for the various offensive/abusive posts.
> > > > .
> > > > You mentioned that you cut out a load of duff pages...
> > > > what happens to links to those pages?
> > > > a 404 resposne or a redirect etc. ?- Hide quoted text -
> Ok so Google WMT just updated and their is a few 404 errors in there
> for the day of traffic loss.
> WMT says my homepage was giving a 404, yet the site is up and working
> fine.
> Why would this happen and what can I do to stop it?
> Thanks.
> On Jul 13, 6:25 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > Cool, I'm here for advice not to hire anyone, I do my own SEO.
> > You also suggest taking your free advice but I don't see any.
> > On Jul 13, 6:19 pm, lots0 wrote:
> > > HI Dave,
> > > Theey reported me because I was warning you NOT to hire anyone form
> > > this forum to do SEO work or "Website repair" there are several
> > > incompetant wannabe SEOs here that are more than willing to sell you
> > > sub-par services, in other words basically rip you off... Please don't
> > > buy into the "your site is so bad, you need me to rescue it" routine
> > > that gets pulled here by several of the wanna be incompetant SEOs
> > > here.
> > > Take the free advice... Because it's free and you can find the exact
> > > same information in google webmaster help, that you will find here.
> > > But like I said, if you hire anyone form this forum for SEO or website
> > > repair you'll be sorry.
> > > On Jul 13, 11:00 am, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > > The stuff I listed I changed I did after the traffic loss.
> > > > The pages removed had no links. Mostly anyway.
> > > > On Jul 13, 5:58 pm, Autocrat wrote:
> > > > > No you ...Dave Hybrid...
> > > > > reported ...lots0... for the various offensive/abusive posts.
> > > > > .
> > > > > You mentioned that you cut out a load of duff pages...
> > > > > what happens to links to those pages?
> > > > > a 404 resposne or a redirect etc. ?- Hide quoted text -
Looking at your site, it might be that one issue could be that links
pointing to parts of your site are not valued in the same way that
they used to be.
> Looking at your site, it might be that one issue could be that links
> pointing to parts of your site are not valued in the same way that
> they used to be.
> Interesting response, so I have had my links devalued, that sucks as
> they are all organic and good links as far as I know.
> Is this tempeorary or permanant and will future links count?
> Thanks.
> On Jul 15, 1:27 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > Hi Dave and welcome to the groups!
> > Looking at your site, it might be that one issue could be that links
> > pointing to parts of your site are not valued in the same way that
> > they used to be.
There are some obvious paid links in your link profile, and I only
checked the first page or two. This would result in your site being
penalized. I'd scrap those ASAP and submit a reinclusion request.
> But, is it just that, a guess or are you saying categorically I have
> had my incoming links smacked.
> The reason I ask is I have pages that ranked just fine that have no
> links and now they are -100 or last page or whatever.
> Also my home page ranks just fine for the site name and if you took
> away my links it would go back to where it ranked when the site was
> new surely.
> So i kinda get the impression the site has a penalty rather than it's
> had it's links devalued.
> Any thoughts?
> On Jul 15, 1:31 am, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > Interesting response, so I have had my links devalued, that sucks as
> > they are all organic and good links as far as I know.
> > Is this tempeorary or permanant and will future links count?
> > Thanks.
> > On Jul 15, 1:27 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > > Hi Dave and welcome to the groups!
> > > Looking at your site, it might be that one issue could be that links
> > > pointing to parts of your site are not valued in the same way that
> > > they used to be.
> Ok so Google WMT just updated and their is a few 404 errors in there
> for the day of traffic loss.
> WMT says my homepage was giving a 404, yet the site is up and working
> fine.
> Why would this happen and what can I do to stop it?
We've no way of knowing why it happened.
Google doesn't send email alerts - so its (rather pathetic) workaround
is to leave the messages on the Webmaster Tools console for ages in
the hope that you'll drop in every now and then and see them. They
will, eventually, expire but you just have to wait. Don't worry - the
messages don't reflect the current status.
> There are some obvious paid links in your link profile, and I only
> checked the first page or two. This would result in your site being
> penalized. I'd scrap those ASAP and submit a reinclusion request.
> On Jul 14, 6:59 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > Also John, I do appreciate your suggestion.
> > But, is it just that, a guess or are you saying categorically I have
> > had my incoming links smacked.
> > The reason I ask is I have pages that ranked just fine that have no
> > links and now they are -100 or last page or whatever.
> > Also my home page ranks just fine for the site name and if you took
> > away my links it would go back to where it ranked when the site was
> > new surely.
> > So i kinda get the impression the site has a penalty rather than it's
> > had it's links devalued.
> > Any thoughts?
> > On Jul 15, 1:31 am, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > > Interesting response, so I have had my links devalued, that sucks as
> > > they are all organic and good links as far as I know.
> > > Is this tempeorary or permanant and will future links count?
> > > Thanks.
> > > On Jul 15, 1:27 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > > > Hi Dave and welcome to the groups!
> > > > Looking at your site, it might be that one issue could be that links
> > > > pointing to parts of your site are not valued in the same way that
> > > > they used to be.
Speaking from experience Google doesn't really like people
artificially gaining links. It used to be that the links would be
discounted and this is what it says in the Google guidlines, however
there are more and more cases of people being penalised based on the
back link profile.
I would suggest cleaning up uour back link profile (get rid of DP Co-
op) and then file a reconsideration request.
> > There are some obvious paid links in your link profile, and I only
> > checked the first page or two. This would result in your site being
> > penalized. I'd scrap those ASAP and submit a reinclusion request.
> > On Jul 14, 6:59 pm, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > Also John, I do appreciate your suggestion.
> > > But, is it just that, a guess or are you saying categorically I have
> > > had my incoming links smacked.
> > > The reason I ask is I have pages that ranked just fine that have no
> > > links and now they are -100 or last page or whatever.
> > > Also my home page ranks just fine for the site name and if you took
> > > away my links it would go back to where it ranked when the site was
> > > new surely.
> > > So i kinda get the impression the site has a penalty rather than it's
> > > had it's links devalued.
> > > Any thoughts?
> > > On Jul 15, 1:31 am, Dave Hybrid wrote:
> > > > Hi John,
> > > > Interesting response, so I have had my links devalued, that sucks as
> > > > they are all organic and good links as far as I know.
> > > > Is this tempeorary or permanant and will future links count?
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > On Jul 15, 1:27 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > > > > Hi Dave and welcome to the groups!
> > > > > Looking at your site, it might be that one issue could be that links
> > > > > pointing to parts of your site are not valued in the same way that
> > > > > they used to be.
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