Yesterday I wrote about how depressed I was that my site was nowhere to be found in the SERPs – even for it’s own name! A fellow affiliate who runs an awesome site listing concert tickets prophesised in a comment on that post that I’d ‘turn a corner soon‘…Today, 12th May, my 1st page rankings returned for my site’s url – this is a great sign because last time I was this high in the SERPs I made 5 sales in two days….I’ll keep you posted, but fingers crossed the High PR Backlinks + the continual adding of fresh content has finally paid off!
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May 13th, 2010 at 7:26 am
Looks like your sitting at around 50th for me
May 13th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Even for ‘bar stools uk’?
*prays its not true….*
I am on page 4 for ‘bar stools’ but that’s OK, that will take more time and I’m confident I can increase it over time.
The main goal for now is just to rank for the site’s url (bar stools uk) and a plethora of long tail keywords. It seems to be working because yesterday I experienced my highest traffic figure per day – only 30 visitors mind you, 9 from my blog/A4U but still 20 for bar stools related stuff. This is a major jump from my previous 1 or 2 per day!
Try searching for ‘john lewis bar stools’ or ‘retro bar stools’ for example
(prays its not his google local search thingy that’s affecting the results…)
May 13th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Good to see things are looking up
Regarding the rankings, I see:-
8: bar stools uk
46: bar stools
I find it’s always best to use ‘Incognito Mode’ on Chrome to avoid Google messing with the rankings (adding personalization etc)
May 13th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Yeah your right, checked them again last night and the results were as you said. Big G has gone all screwy again now though and dropped you completely (or at least at my end, checked manually and with RankChecker). The new result set has propelled some of my sites from the bottom of the first page to position 1, but dropped others from the top half completely! It doesnt make any sense lol.
May 14th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Ah, man…I should know better than to feel ‘optimistic’ with anything that happens in the SERPs! Bollocks.
I haven’t been dropped completely because the site still appears for a site:www.domain.co.uk search.
It’s some sort of filtering process. It happened before, I added some High PR backlinks and I re-appeared in the SERPs for one day, then I dropped. I’m wondering if it could be some sort of link age filter?
Has anyone got any ideas? At least I have witnesses now though that it did work for one day
May 14th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
I think a lot of is it due to the new google algo which seems to be everywhere at the minute!
When one of my sites dropped from the rankings I just carried on building links (10 or so links per day of mixed types – blog comments, profile links, social bookmarking etc) and the site returned within a week and has been sat there since. It may have done it without the links but who knows.