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A site I just started to manage is not banned in Google because I can find the domain in the index, but it gets extremely poor ranking -- almost nowhere to be found.
Does anyone know of a good method for determining how and/or why a site gets a poor ranking in Google. The site I have has been around for a while and is very rich with content relative to "youth sports". Yet you can hardly find it in the Google.
Sorry for asking this question here, but if you have ever posted anything to the Google Help and User forums you;ll find you get no responses or assistance. SO is the only place I can ever get exceptional and timely help.
There is no way to tell for sure as no one knows exactly how pages are ranked. However, we do have a pretty good idea of what many of the ranking factors are so we can be sure do them to help our chances of ranking well. This question at Pro Webmasters is a good start. So is this answer. Once you're sure you got the basics down you need to promote your website in the hopes of getting quality links to your pages. But if you don't have quality content (and what you call quality content may not be what Google and others call quantity content) you're not going to stand much of a chance of ranking well.
Did you use any dirty tricks like white text on white background to contain some false keywords etc.? Google continually discovers these tricks and penalizes them. Cheating doesn't pay off. I don't tell this is your case, but I just want to warn against it, in general.
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I'm a React Native Developer from the past 7 months. And this is my first technology I'm working on. So, I recently got to know that there are certain coding rules which I wasn't following and was unaware of. I have two general programming questions.
So I just got to know from an inteview that one should create wrapper functions in their code, by which I can just call a single function which points to a module or a API.
Like wrapper functions, what else is a good practice in programming?
Since I never worked on Android/iOS before and directly jumped to React Native. I often find myself doing trial and erros when it comes to do styling in my application.
Or what is the right way to style an element without giving too much margin/padding, which I assume is wrong. Or what is the right way to style where the styling works the same in all devices. Can someone recommend me a right article or video or something for this styling issue?
This may well be the broadest question(s) on StackOverflow :-). Just a few suggestions for the first question.
1. Read :
Many books have been written, some down-to-earth (Clean Code, The Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete, Refactoring, ...), some more theoretical (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, ...).
2. Collaborate :
You can sollicit code reviews from colleagues, have pair-programming sessions with them, attend coding dojos or hackathons. All of these are ways to share and transfer knowledge among peers, are very helpful, and almost always fun, too.
3. Play :
Sites like codewars.com are great to let you experiment with huge numbers of coding challenges, risk-free, and with the bonus benefit of seeing the solutions of others (once you're done :-)).
Maybe it's worth posting the second question separately, with the appropriate title. Good luck!
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I am the developer of Infermap.com. We are regularly monitoring and working on SEO and presence on Google SERPs. In the past 3-4 days we have seen a sudden steep drop in the number of Impressions on Google.
Can someone suggest me the possible reason of why might this happen and by what ways I can prevent it.
Also I have added around 11k urls to be indexed out of which only 1.5k has been indexed. What are the possible reasons for it?
(note: this question should probably be moved to Webmasters Stack Exchange)
Looks like your 11k new URLs have not been picked up as quality content by Google. You might even be cloaking, when I click on a result I get a completely different text on your site.
Ways to avoid it:
avoid cloaking
avoid adding similar looking pages without unique content, e.g. make sure your pages are unique enough before publishing them
feed new content that looks alike gradually, e.g. start with 100 pages, wait a week or two, and add another 200. Once you are confident your pages are picked up well you can add everything at once.
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As all SEOs know that google is trying its very best to kill SEO and linkbacks are quite a difficult task now. Although content is the key but my boss is still possessed with linkbacks. I can not do directory posting, link exchange, paid linking, web 2.0 and blog commenting as they are spam now. I do not see what other choice i have except forum posting and article posting. Can someone suggest new method to acquire link backs ? I know almost all traditional methods so don't say press release or etc. If you really have something out of the box or not very much common please share.
Google isn't killing SEO, they trying to banish practices that your boss is so intent on doing.
If you want to build a quality reputation - you need to start creating genuine and unique content aimed at your target audience. Research your market, offer your visitors information they want to read and share. Make sure what you create is geared towards Google.
Make it relevant, current, accurate and engaging.
Of course, this all takes time and considerable effort - if you or your boss can't devote the time needed, or at least employ someone to do it for you... the business is going to suffer online.
Buy the links. The majority of online marketing agencies do this as the primary way to increase Google rank.
Or go the natural way and produce so much fine content people will naturally share it.
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Look, under page title there's a very nice link, including categories of the website.
I really do want that thing on my website. The problem is the syntax of my website:
Main page: index.php
Category: index.php?p=part&id=[ID]
Subcategory: index.php?p=cat&id=[ID]
Article: index.php?p=post&id=[ID]
What should I do? Changing syntax is no good for me, but I'm pretty sure I can do some magic with htaccess RewriteEngine, but it's not going to look much better.
Huge thanks in advance :)
Ooops, almost forgot. Can I have some kind of guide to a proper sitemap? I already searched for it myself, but every guide offers it's own way to make it, and I'm totally confused.
These breadcrumb links in the SERPS are not only from microdata, but are from the breadcrumb navigation links on the sites pages. (which can indeed be marked up with microdata, but do not have to be) Google will tend to use them if urls are very long in my experience.
More info here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-site-hierarchies-display-in-search.html
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-LH5eyufqH0#!
and here
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185417
It's called microdata. You can find the officially supported microdata at schema.org. Keep in mind that using microdata does not guarantee your search results will be affected.
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I have developed a website for a firm that deals in pumps, valves and diesel engines. They require that when an interested user searches with some keywords like "Pump Dealers" or "Valve Dealers", their site should appear in the results. Currently I am not aware of how I can go about this, so my question is what should I do in order for better page ranking. I am using meaningful page titles and have enough text in every page.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Firstly Pagerank is irrelevant these days, so don't worry about that.
You should ensure that you use Google's Webmaster Tools to check that Google knows about your site etc. This will tell you what things it is coming up for on Google.
Make sure that the page has the text on it you want to rank for - as you mention, titles, headers etc will help but don't over do it.
The main thing to do is to get links to your site – write interesting blog posts, contact customers etc so they link to you.
It really depends on who your competition is for those terms - if there are already 10 huge companies ranking for those terms then you are stuck.
The other way to do this is to buy Adwords – this will likely cost upwards of $5-10 a day to get any meaningful traffic though.