Penguin deleting root domains from the Serps
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jimmyn
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- Oct 21, 2011
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You probably shouldn't do this.
I thought it was just me that this was happening to.
When I search mysite.com there's only two results that are actually my site(including homepage) and a few weeks ago there was around 40+ pages of results that were from mysite.com
The site was ranked #1 before all of this for a competitive keyword, so I don't know what to do.
The only thing that I've done that I shouldn't be doing is selling a few links , which could be the reason why it's in trouble?
When I search mysite.com there's only two results that are actually my site(including homepage) and a few weeks ago there was around 40+ pages of results that were from mysite.com
The site was ranked #1 before all of this for a competitive keyword, so I don't know what to do.
The only thing that I've done that I shouldn't be doing is selling a few links , which could be the reason why it's in trouble?
jimmyn
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- Oct 21, 2011
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Related sites in the same topic would be a good start. They're not easy to get, but they wouldn't be natural if they were would they?
seoguy81
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- May 18, 2011
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Good discussion. Noticed this problem on my main site this morning.
Searching for mysite doesn't show any backlinks and none of the inner pages.
Searching for mysite.com shows a different site which is slightly similar to mine
Never faced this problem since the 3 years this site has been online.
Although when I use serpfox, rankings for mysite shows #2 and mysite.com shows #1
Starting to wonder which one is more accurate.. searching in google.com from my browser or to rely on serpfox's ranking.
Searching for mysite doesn't show any backlinks and none of the inner pages.
Searching for mysite.com shows a different site which is slightly similar to mine
Never faced this problem since the 3 years this site has been online.
Although when I use serpfox, rankings for mysite shows #2 and mysite.com shows #1
Starting to wonder which one is more accurate.. searching in google.com from my browser or to rely on serpfox's ranking.
rugbyjack2005
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- Oct 2, 2011
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I don't know which country you are in but serpfox only has US data centres and therefore is only accurate in the US because of location factors
seoguy81
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Based in Europe. But a search in google.com should show the US data, if i'm not mistaken?
Chicilikit
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- Dec 21, 2010
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This has been happening to me for few months now and few days ago it also happened to my main site which was hit before it with penguin. I don't know what exactly caused what, but anchor diversification is I think the key problem of most of us who created unnatural links. My problem is that I don't know where to get enough quality links to lover the percentage of exact match anchors...
ajithrocksca
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No it is not. Results vary based on the country even if you search google.com
ajithrocksca
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As Far as the search results showing inner pages, that has been the trend for few months, in my opinion penguin has nothing to do with it. There was an algorithm update in yahoo&bing (sadly nobody spoke or discussed about it) about 12 days back, after this update yahoo and bing also shows a lot of inner pages for the keywords rather than the home page.
In my opinion it is for the good.
In my opinion it is for the good.
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These comments are spot on. This sounds more like a Panda issue. I dealt with this a lot during Panda. Homepage would go missing and some internal page would rank for the keywords further down in SERPs.
For many sites it just took time. I continued to build links to the homepage and it eventually popped back up.
As far as where to build them just look in the services for sale threads. Even if you don't have the money they tell you all kinds of places where they get backlinks from.
Please ignore the posts about being deindexed.
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These comments are spot on. This sounds more like a Panda issue. I dealt with this a lot during Panda. Homepage would go missing and some internal page would rank for the keywords further down in SERPs.
For many sites it just took time. I continued to build links to the homepage and it eventually popped back up.
As far as where to build them just look in the services for sale threads. Even if you don't have the money they tell you all kinds of places where they get backlinks from.
Please ignore the posts about being deindexed.
rugbyjack2005
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- Oct 2, 2011
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I think the point is about the demotion of the home page causing the inner pages to out rank it rather than inner pages showing up in search results.
UPDATE:!!!
bought some videos on fiverr and uploaded them on youtube with a link to my site (no anchor text. just mydomain.com link) and the site is back to first page (the root domain!)
hope it remains like this! will see tomorrow
bought some videos on fiverr and uploaded them on youtube with a link to my site (no anchor text. just mydomain.com link) and the site is back to first page (the root domain!)
hope it remains like this! will see tomorrow
flibbertigibbet
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- Apr 11, 2010
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Ummm....that's totally bogus, dude. It's not true.
I've seen this more and more lately with my newer sites, and believe that it may have something to do with relevancy across the ENTIRE site. My theory is that Google, at least initially, thinks that this particular inner page that is ranking is more relevant than your root domain.... It's like the first process that the algo goes through to categorize a site. Google is trying to figure out what your site is about. I could be wrong, but it's just a theory. So far this theory has stood the test of time through about 10 different domains of mine...many of them had the same issue prior to the Penguin update, and many of them are doing the same thing post Penguin. Eventually all of them stabilize though, after Google figures out what your site is about and where it should be filed in the SERPS. Google will eventually rank the root domain for the keyword instead of the inner page after it goes through all of the initial algo processing steps.....
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