Hi E-Slave,
Hmm,
Looking at the first page (lovex_xlyrics.htm)
I don't really see what the page could rank for.
The page is virtually all links and hardly any content.
The H1 and H2 headers are very long and contain
virtually 2/3 of the page textual content (That is not links)
Really it is just a index of love songs that start with the letter A.
There are no actual lyrics on the page as the title suggests
there would be.
I see pretty much the same thing with the other page.
Now, If I pick out one of your pages that actually have lyrics
like say, christmas _ songs _ hear _ what . htm
And search for the page title, the page comes up #1
I think it would be difficult today to get such _category
index_ pages to come up really well.
If you provide more focus to what the page actually
contains with your title and headers and shorten them
so the focus is tighter, you would get better results.
for just a quick example the one page has the title
Love Lyrics Love Songs Lyrics - Romantic Song Top Love Songs Today
Might be better as
Top romantic love song lyrics - A list
Just to demonstrate, I didn't research that example.
Also, from a technical standpoint, both the www and
non-www versions of your site are available without redirection.
You should pick a preferred version and 301 the non-preferred
to the preferred. This helps focus on just the preferred
domain version.
Here is an explanation by Matt Cutts that
may answer some _why_ questions-
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
Since you are on an Apache server you should be able
to implement the 301 redirects using mod_rewrite directives
in your .htaccess file.
How to canonicalize your domain on Apache with
mod_rewrite article by webado-
http://groups.google.com/group/only-validation/web/fix-canonical-issu...
Hope that helps,
Abracadabra
On Nov 2, 11:38 pm, E-Slave wrote:
> OK -- but I don't want it archived and 'searchable' so hope it's okay
> if I encode it, sort of...
> I'll put x's in the urls that actually arent' there...
> www.linksx2xlove.com/lovex_xlyrics.com -- for - love lyrics -- was
> Number one on Google for at least 5 years.
> andwww.linksx2xlove.com/christmasx_xsongs.htm- for - Christmas songs --
> always ranked near the top -- and just disappeared again today.
> Thanks.
> On Nov 2, 7:31 pm, beussery wrote:
> > Welcome E-Slave,
> > In most cases pages with song lyrics aren't considered spam... Could
> > you provide us with a URL?
> > -Brian
> > On Nov 2, 10:16 pm, E-Slave wrote:
> > > New here -- so please excuse any broken rules / protocol.
> > > I work with a site that has problems with two major pages -- one page
> > > ranked first place on Google for over five years and got dropped last
> > > year. The second always ranked in one of the first three positions
> > > for its words - and also got dropped.
> > > Both are listings of song lyrics -- both pages have been completely re-
> > > worked and the majority of lyrics pages have also been re-designed
> > > since the disastrous drop.
> > > Yesterday -- one of the pages re-appeared in the sixth position for
> > > its main set of keywords. This morning, that same page moved to the
> > > top of Google's second page and by afternoon, the page is completely
> > > gone.
> > > There are hundreds of internal links to these pages -- but they're
> > > logically placed to send the user back to the main listing page.
> > > Please help.- Hide quoted text -
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