Shai
I cannot add anything useful about dealing with proxy hijacks, but I
can see some issues on your site itself.
In the main menu, you have mainly links like this:
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/shop/shop.php?c1=Benches
Wouldn't it be better to use mod_rewrite in the .htaccess so that the
published URL would be something like:
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/benches/
Another issue is the absence of keywords from some URLs, eg: the page
of detailed information on your "Bali Bench" is:
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/shop/shop.php?action=full&id=28
Wouldn't it be better to have a URL something like:
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/bali-bench-details/
Yet another issue is serving the SAME content in response to requests
for different URLs, eg
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/shop/shop.php?c1=Benches
and
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/shop/shop.php?page=1&c1=Benches
I also think that the details provided for some of the products are
very inadequate from an SEO point of view.
For example, have a look at the TEXT (ignoring the excellent photos)
on this page:
http://www.farawayfurniture.co.uk/shop/shop.php?action=full&id=28
There is no mention of "wood", "wooden", "garden", "outdoor",
"furniture".
Phrases like "it is sure to become a topic of conversation amongst
your friends and family" may read well as marketing blurb but they are
irrelevant for search engine indexing of page content related to what
people might actually be searching for.
"benches" are used in all sorts of places indoors and outdoors;
churches, homes, offices; public spaces (eg parks, shopping centres/
malls, etc). Benches can be upholstered or not. Benches can be made
of wood, cast/wrought iron, aluminium, plastic/PVS, etc. The word
"bench" is used in other contexts too: work bench, tool bench, court/
jury bench, etc.
That "Bali bench" you are selling is, I think, specifically for
domestic use, outside in the back garden. Take away the words "bench"
and "teak" and the page leaves a great mystery: what are you selling!
On a minor note, even the product dimensions are presented in a way
that creates an obstacle: "Size: L150cm x W73cm x H86cm". Are you
sure that your product will be found if I search for [teak garden
bench 150 cm] ?
Finally, I see that you have a "Forum". Do you moderate all posts?
Are you confident that you have ways of preventing spam, obscenities,
and substantially irrelevant material from getting published and
indexed thus potentially damaging your site's profile?
Robbo
On Feb 22, 7:36 am, ShyBoy wrote:
> We are a small family business and we have just been dropped from the
> serps due to a proxy hijack (I think that's the term). We have blocked
> the IP for now while I look at ways of preventing this happening again
> in the future. (Not techy at all)
> When you searched on Google for a bunch of text on our page, his site
> appeared and upon clicking on the link, it forwarded us to our site,
> through a proxy site.
> This is the proxy site.http://www.tylerschnaidt.com/blocked/nph-index.pl
> It seems to feast on sites as every day it grows by around 3000.
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.tylerschnaidt.com&btn...
> It seems that the proxy version of our page was re-crawled last night,
> and, due to the IP ban, was de-indexed. Unfortunately, our ranking is
> still stuck between the 40 - 60 mark for all keywords, phrases and
> even our domain name. We used to rank really well and now we are at
> the bottom of the pond. We have (what we think) is a good site which
> we worked on for hours and hours every night to get just the way we
> wanted it.
> www.farawayfurniture.co.uk
> I have filed a re-inclusion form and a spam report when it first
> dropped us from serps.
> We have had the penalty for over 11 days now and it is really
> affecting our business. We just can't afford to miss out on the
> beginning of the spring season here in the UK. This is our only source
> of income and as such this is causing my wife and me great stress and
> sleepless nights. This is extremely serious for us, but we feel as if
> Google has let us down as we have not even had an automated response
> to say they are looking into it. We feel helpless and distraught. Why
> does it take so long for Google to act on these people who literally
> ruin honest people's lives? Why is there no-one to talk to even via
> email?
> Does anyone have any advice on this? The SEO guy we used for advice
> ran out of ideas.
> Sorry for the rant,
> Shai
