Google Organic Listings Drop

[Jessie77]

My website was very successful and now it is no where we all ways used to be on Pge 1 now we are page 3 if lucky. We have tried all sorts and we just do not know what the problem is can someone help . Website is childrens party shop will not let me put the web address in as I am new

 

[Leather Briefcase Company]

You are not alone. Thousands of smaller businesses that had occupied top natural rankings have been demoted by Google's recent algorhythm changes, which seem to favour larger companies and big brands.
The SEO experts's wisdom is that you need "interesting content", which means they will write blogs and articles that will get backlinks, and Google will promote your site again.
[ it costs a lot of money, and results are not g'teed ]
In my view the first action you should take is to check your website itself. Use Google Webmaster Tools to check your basics, like image titles and alt tags, and if you have duplicated titles, or pages the crawling bot cannot access. Then read Google Webmaster Guidelines, often and carefully. Then check feedthebot.com for more plain simple excellent advice, with FREE tools to check the effectiveness of your webshop.
Make sure your website is functioning as well as it can do, and if you can, write your own blog about your business to give added interest to your visitors.
Good luck, from a webshop owner fighting my way back!

 

[Jessie77]

Thank you both for the excellent advice sometimes you think you are alone and its only happening to you. There are a few things you have both mentioned so will investigate Us small businesses must keep up the fight!

 

[MASSEY]

You just have to suck it up. There are some evil things happening on the internet to the small guy. I have many websites and often notice that the homepage of certain sites just vanish from google completely and return months+ later.

Often losses in ranking are to do with links having been removed or devalued.

I feel sorry for most people when it comes to SEO, i like to think i know what i am doing holding some good rankings for competitive terms but even i become unsure and get stuck with what is happening of late.

 

[antropy]

Feel free to send the link to our SEO guy Michael - [email protected] and he'll have a look.

 

[heddwyn]

Hi Jessie,

In order to answer your questions we need additional information.
Can you tell us more about the website? Share the link somehow?

Did you do any SEO prior to the drop?
Is your content unique?
Is it indexed properly?
How many pages of actual content do you have in comparison with site:YOURURL query?

 

[Jessie77]

Thanks Paul have just sent the website to your guy to have a quick look for me. x