updating websites, prices, fit rates etc

[dansk]

That was quick, wish it happened like that on other keywords. TBH it was only a test on my behalf, as I want to get another venture up and running, I'm a closet SEO, if you want any help just ask, I reckon I could some good.

 

[Eco Deal]

learn me how to do my own SEO it cost an arm and a leg .

 

[dansk]

you can pay me as a consultant

 

[Gavin A]

it appears you've overtaken me already... but well, let's just say this is just the first skirmish and we'll see what the next few days brings when google catches up

*evil laugh*

my counter measures have taken affect, and you're back in 2nd place Mr Dansk:tongue3:

 

[Eco Deal]

its it easy are you just swaping links ?

 

[Gavin A]

its it easy are you just swaping links ?

well, that was mostly about changing the content on the page, which tbh I was wanting to do a bit anyway as I'd written it in a hurry on the day of the announcement, so I just made sure it had that search phrase in a bit more, plus a few other bits an pieces, and submitting the page to google to speed up the process of google finding the changes.

 

[dansk]

nope, linking swapping is so 2005, these days its about unique quality content, high quality relavent inbound links, but not from link farms etc. there is a bit too it if im honest.

 

[Gavin A]

hmm... bugger, I think we just got dumped down the google rankings for 'solar panels leeds', presumably because I've just added that search term as the link title for our site in a few of those link farm type sites... apparently google has just released a revised version of it's google penguin search algorythm on Friday, which coincides precisely with the point where we appear to have been dumped from averaging around 2nd or 3rd to suddenly being dumped to 30th.

well it could be that, or it could have been something else I'd done... doh.

as far as I can tell it's only impacted on that one search term, unfortunately that was the one I'd been targeting as being the most search term that was most relevant to us. Hopefully this won't be a permanent thing.

 

[dansk]

i see you page 2, and page 1 in the local business results. yes also revised penguin update on friday

 

[Gavin A]

stupid thing is, I've never been able to see us at all in the listings for 'solar panels Leeds' because it seems to just post up our google places listing if we're searching from somewhere near to our location, but for people searching from elsewhere we show up fine.

dansk - is that our front page you're seeing on page 2, or our panels page? as our panels page was ranking on page 2 by itself, and the front page was supposedly showing at 3 for anyone outside of the google places area.

I'm getting this info about us dropping down the rankings from the google webmaster site, which runs about 2-3 days behind, and was showing us at 2.9 last week, then suddenly we drop to 30 on Friday for 'solar panels Leeds', which doesn't look good given the penguin update date.

I think the google places listing is different though, so luckily we'll still appear there for local searchers, which is mainly what we're after.

 

[dansk]

its your internal page i can see. sometimes if your "signed in" that squews the listings and also i have to clear cookies, pain in the --- is Google sometimes, its trying to be clever by providing what it thinks you want to see.

 

[Gavin A]

eta - thanks for checking for me.

yeah, I do the search checks via the incognito browser on chrome, which basically signs you out of everything, though google still knows your location.

It was our front page that was ranking at number 3 (well, average of 2.9), and then apparently dropped straight from 2.9 to 30 on the 30th May. Hard to tell if it's affected anything else really, as they only show up over a longer period.

alternatively it's something to do with changes I made due to our little competition, or google noticing something else I'd done because of me submitting the page at that point..... I'd only just finished getting us back up the rankings for that term after we'd dropped right down a couple of months back after we changed part of our front page to flash. arse.

 

[dansk]

just leave it for a few days im sure it will return, out of interest have you seen it at posistion 3 with your own eyes, or just from the reports?

 

[Gavin A]

not personally, as I say it seemed that the google places listing was featuring instead of our standard listing for people in Leeds. I had someone in middlesborough check it for me though last week, and he said we were 3rd in the natural listings for the front page, which matched with what the google webmasters tools was telling me.

I had possibly done a couple of other things it might not have liked though, so will try resubmitting the page now I've undone those bits. Not a huge issue, more a bit of a pain in the arse, and maybe a bit of a warning not to try anything too dodgy in name of SEO coz google are like the all seeing eye, and can strike you down at will.

 

[dansk]

very true, less is more with SEO.

 

[Gavin A]

minor glitch now sorted, we had 2 days down at 30, now back up to 3rd. I guess google must have liked the changes I made then. *phew*