Wanted: Website Review Where am I going wrong

[techtimmy]

I have the website roboticvacuumcleaners.co.uk

Its got some original content, a couple of decent back links, PR1, correct keyword density, looks decent and is useful and informative.

Doesnt even register on Google for robotic vacuum cleaners.



My main opposition is the singular .co.uk which tops google for its exact search term and is 3rd on Google for my exact search term. It has less PR (sure i know thats not so important) has less backlinks, less pages indexed in search engines and less content.

Where I am going so horribly wrong?

Any advice that can be offered would be great. Any decent tools/tricks people use to solve similar problems.

 

[figleaf007]

Hi there

I think the main reason is....

The links you have are not good enough. I didn't check them all, but some of them appear to be 'comment name' links - of little value.

Then, when you have a good link (such as on the Harrierpestprevention site) it's a 'no follow' ie Google gives it no value (or very, very little). You need to build some authoritative links.

Also, when did you last add content? I'd be adding content every 2 or 3 days at least until I got indexed.

Get some good links and freshen things up and I'm sure you will get indexed.

Good luck...

 

[retired_member13]

I think that your site had either been penalised or sandboxed - in the form of a ranking penalty.

It might "right" itself automatically in time - it depends on what you (or the previous owner) did to get it penalised in the first place.

I don't think that the low quality of incoming links would be causing this, unless the were the cause of the penalty - ie linkspam.

 

[retired_member21]

If you want to check if you've been penalised then IMO you'll either recieve a -30 position ranking penalty for all phrases OR a -950 position penalty. The latter is obviously more severe and generally for serious offenders whereas the -30 generally can be seen as a slap on the wrist.

Possible things I'd look into:-
- Recent influx of links
- Recent influx of links are sitewide on the person linking to you's site (e.g. a blog)
- Recent reciprocal link exchange(s) - check very carefully who (if) you are trading with

I just rode out a 7 1/2 week -950 penalty on one of my sites, I tried everything removing inbound links / updating copy etc - but removed 1 link from my site and it seems to have corrected itself, however I can't put it down to that - you've got to basically double check everything - much hair was pulled out during this period.

n.b. I didn't do a re-inclusion request, it seems to have sorted itself out

 

[techtimmy]

Just checking through Analytics. The site ranks 3rd for one very random search term 'klarstein cleanmate'

I'd be gutted if Google were penalising me.

I regged the name 2 years ago and am the only owner. I'm sure i've not done any black hat or anything dodgy.

 

[namealot]

Your not actually using most of your keywords at all that’s not going to help ( Sure plenty will argue otherwise..? But Ive found good meta tags high % keyword , desc etc helps big time)

robot cleaner
robo vac
automatic vacuum
tidy house

 

[retired_member13]

You often find that a G ranking penalty mainly supresses the homepage.

2 things you'll sometimes see when a homepage is penalised are: subpages ranking but homepage not, and subpages ranking before the homepage for the key terms in the domain name, eg the subpage term1term2.co.uk/productname ranks ahead of term1term2.co.uk on a search for [term1 term2]. I've had a couple of these over the years.

Just checking through Analytics. The site ranks 3rd for one very random search term 'klarstein cleanmate'

I'd be gutted if Google were penalising me.

I regged the name 2 years ago and am the only owner. I'm sure i've not done any black hat or anything dodgy.

 

[techtimmy]

I'll contact Google and ask for a re-submission I think. See if that helps

 

[retired_member13]

Re re-submissions:

Before you submit a request make sure that everything on your site confirms 100% to the webmaster guidelines.

The penalty you're seeing is automated, not manual, and the review process for reconsideration requests is manual, so sometimes the review makes things worse not better (the resub system is primarily for blacklisted sites, not sites that have had a G "slap"), as you're asking a person to look over your site and judge if it's of value to G users, so for a product site they'll be looking for proper t&cs, contact details, no dupe content, an in site shopping basket, no spammy links etc etc.

I'll contact Google and ask for a re-submission I think. See if that helps

 

[retired_member21]

I would also hold out on the re-inclusion request in this instance, it just takes some time for the automated systems to reduce the penalty. As I said check every single outbound link, add some fresh content and just leave it for another 2 weeks - how long has a site been on there for?

 

[techtimmy]

Oops, already done the request. It's been live for about a year and a half. Made a small bit on Adsense but never sold a single vacuum

 

[retired_member21]

The only other thing I would say is that you have 2x homepages (duplication). I always find it good practise to 301 redirect either non-www to www / www to non-www

roboticvacuumcleaners.co.uk => 301 to
www.roboticvacuumcleaners.co.uk

 

[figleaf007]

I don't think you've been punished and it was probably an error to re-submit, it implies you know you were guilty of doing something wrong, which I'm not sure that you have. I would have added a shedload of new, fresh content and got some new links in, that would have probably sorted it out.

Subpages can also come ahead in searches because you are focussing on a long tail word which the sub-page has better density, etc on.

 

[johnnyboy]

Does Google perform automated reviews on every site it indexes? One of my sites got the -30 penalty a few days ago but it wasn't submitted via Google; it got indexed through submitting an article to EzineArticles.com and the link getting crawled. I don't submit through Google because I heard affiliate sites are more likely to get penalised this way.

 

[storebuilder]

The google listing problem "looks" simply like you are stuffing your keyword tag. Try removing all your keywords and just stick with one until you are happy with your listing.

Try removing your site title "Robotic Vacuum Cleaners" from every single page or placing it after your natural page title.

So for example instead of:

Robotic Vacuum Cleaners - Advice and tips on buying a robot vacuum cleaner

Replace it with:

Advice and tips on buying a robot vacuum cleaner - Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

This way you'll pick up more long tail keywords.

Try writing an article and distributing it to a couple of ezine article publishers to get some quality links quickly.

The no sales problem:

Remove all your adsense ad's, they just leak your traffic.

Add in the simple line:

CLICK HERE FOR LATEST PRICES

Bold it. Add it in several places through your review text.

Try adding in a simple comparison chart on the homepage

That should improve things.