Who else want to know why his ranking drops in Google?
You might don’t heard before about me nor landed on this blog I never wished to maintain. But today I want to write which most of the industry people are not talking about. People like Aaron Wall and Rand fishken which I highly respected in the industry didn’t speak about the problem Google is having when indexing sites.
I step forward to write few words that will be controversial and create wave in the SEO industry. If you are web designer, developer, web master, SEO, marketing manager the piece of information should read the article. I have added screenshots to prove that Google is having problem with their Bot while indexing sites.
A recent article in NYTimes interviewing senior Google Search Engineer Amit Singhal reveals their working points and how they solve problem. I am just amazed that such a sophisticated algorithm developed by highly skilled engineer didn’t able to differentiate between “3GP†and “3RD†even “375â€.
The reason why I am tracking “3GP†keyword in Google is that I myself run a site that is related to 3GP Videos. The site was ranking in Top 3 for the various term related to “3GP†and related to other 3GP terms and now no were in top 10. So I dig deep in to matter to find out what is the cause that makes the site lost ranking.
I read different blogs, many articles to check where I did wrong that makes the site lose ranking. But I didn’t find the quality source that helps me solve my problem.
Yesterday I tightened my belt and start looking at cached version of all the sites that are ranking in top 30 for the term “3GP†in Google. And I am really amazed with the results. Google Bot isn’t reading the content on the page and skipping the words and didn’t able to recognize different words. All the words that start with 3 or 3 in between them consider as “3GP†by Google.
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:bDwZX9Vkr68J:www.free-3gp-video.com/+3gp&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12
So what do you think is that Google Fault or New sites taking your place in ranking?
Recently I wrote about Google Algo Break along with Screen Shoot which clearly reveals that fact that Google is having problem with the content.
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It seems that you have totally forgot “ON PAGE” optimization for that 3GP site of yours, so no wonder if it’s not doing as good as it could.
Google still position sites 1st and foremost based on anchor texts of the InBound Links. But they DO also take account onpage optimization like proper use of semantical HTML (Using headings for headings etc.). MSN and Yahoo weight onpage optimization way more than Google though.
And that “algo break” you claimed to exist. Sadly it’s no algo break. It is clearly result of IBL anchor texts. Google give weight for those no matter what that file is or contain…
I have quite a bit knowledge about on page optimiztion and my other sites are ranking No.1 for competitive keywords on Google.
Showing .3gp files just because of IBL doesnt makes sence to me. How google read the contents of video file. .3gp is video file and there is no reason for google to rank those files and what happend why it disappeared now.
Well, no offence meant, but that 3gp site of yours do not have practically ANY on page optimization
I’d suggest you do some, like proper semantical use of header elements. It might help some.
Other thing I would “change” is anchor texts from “download” links to something more meaningful, like [artist name] - [song name]. That way your pages would have possibility to get some extra hits with people looking those keywords also.
I wonder what is your definition of competitive keyword though.
In internet it do not matter what file “extension” (in this case .3gp) is. For spider or browser it’s all the same if file is .3gp .mp3 or don’t have file extension at all. It all is just a data, and wrongly (or UN-) congifured web server can send data with wrong content type.
You (or google spider) can’t make any assumption what format that data is just because file ends with .3gp or what ever
That’s why google spiders can treat any file as “possible html” etc. content (if it’s sent with that content type) and they might end up being indexed just same as normal pages.
After file like that get linked with proper anchor text, it can show up in results.
I didn’t bother to see why that file had dissapeared from results, but I think it’s possible file was 1st sent as content type text/html because of badly configured server and later it was fixed to send proper content type so google realized it’s not web page.
That should have been HEADING elements… Not header, damn, I think I’ve done today too much tinkering with page headers when I mess up header and heading
The site in the ScreenShot didnt belong to me.
You forget to poin out the cache problem google is having why google is treating 3GP and 3rd the same way.
Yes, but 3GP videos site (link was in the text) belonged to you, no? It has no on page optimization
I wonder bit that reason why google seemd to treat 3GP and 3rd same. I suspect they have somewhere bit sloppily coded regular expression they match things for highlighting purposes.
It has no on-page optimization. Then i would to hear few words from your end that help me with on-page optimization.
If you are refering to H1 H2 Tags than i know there wasnt any. If you have any other points that help me improive on-page optimization than i would love to listen from your end.
H1 and other heading elements, in proper semantical use.
Only H1 for each page with unique keywords that page aims at. Think it as a title of the book, it has almost always just one title.
H2 elements for sub headings, for “sub” keywords page aim to (like chapters in book). and H3 etc if required, if there’s need for sub sub keywords.
Don’t skip heading levels, fix them visually for your liking with CSS if needed.
Good H2 heading candicates in main page would be news & events, Fresh releases, top 10 download. I leave it to you to figure out what H1 should be.
If you want to use images instead for those for visual reasons, use some numerous image replacement techniques, and have proper ALT text for the images.
In fresh releases box, I would use [Artist name] - [song name] instead of “download”, like you have in news & events box. or download - [song name] depending what keywords you want to weight in. After all, I doubt you are going for after “download” keyword for each song… People sometimes forget inpage anchor texts have value too, they consentrate on IBL anchors only.
There are lots of other things I would do for the pages. Like ditch the old fashioned table design. Make navigations etc. to “link lists” because that they are semantically, list of links and UL element is for unordered lists.
Reason why I’d ditch the table design is, your page aim for mobile videos, have you tested page with mobile devices? (I didn’t test, but just because can’t be bothered to put down beer and grab my phone and test it…) Table design don’t always work so very nicely on mobile device. Using CSS and properly structured semantical HTML can help a lot to make page accessible with mobile device.
It might feel now useless to cater for mobile device users, but… From where I am, most phones have decent browsing capability and it only cost me about 10 euros / month ($13.5) to have unmetered broadband in my 3G phone. With price like that I’m using phone too to browse if I’m in bus and can’t be arsed to drag laptop with me…
So basically:
1. Semantical html with CSS (less HTML, more content = good)
2. Proper use of heading elements
3. proper anchor text for inpage links also (you have it already some places)
4. use etc. when you wanna emphasize some keyword.
5. alt text for images if they are headings.
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Anyway, there’s lots of other things too to optimise for that site
I only mentioned first things that popped to my mind… Now I better grab another beer and do some own stuff too…
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4. use <strong> etc…
didn’t realize this accepted html in comments…
thanks alot for your nice comment. I will work on the issues.
No problem. Little tweaking here’n'there and maybe few more IBLs with your target key phrases and your site should climb up. Don’t target just one phrase, I know if I’d make search engine I’d be highly suspicious if all IBL anchors would target only one phrase… Good luck with your site.