my site seems to be penalised.Why?

[astoller]

Hi

My site at www.navigate-mc.com shows a pr3 in toolbar, but pasting any body text into google search, my site doesn't show up even though txt is unique.

Also in the toolbar, the cache of the page shows nothing but the site's definitely been crawled in the past because of the pr3

Also, there are no bad or off topics links into the site.

Any ideas why I seem to be penalised here?
Thanks
Art

[greeneagle]

Without further "Consulting" type specification in your HTML text and meta-tags you are leaving yourself way too wide open - more competitive than you need to be. Be more specific - "Consulting" brings on almost 50 million hits where "Business Consulting" conjures up a "mere" 20 Million. You gotta hone it a bit - be more specific.... Google just added billions of more sites - The competition gets filtered out when you become more specific. Hardly anyone uses 1 word search phrases anymore...almost everyone searches with at least 2 or 3 word keyphrases these days. Single keywords don't hold the value they used to.

Good Luck,

Ken

[astoller]

My phrase is
"articles strategic management"
i.e. 3 words.
Still doesn't explain why ai am being
penalsied.

[cbp]

Either:

1. You are not penalized and just rank poorly. I can only find 3 off-topic low PR sites that link to you. (Most likely reason)

or

2. You are penalized:

Still doesn't explain why ai am being
penalsied.

Are you saying you don't know why? I do not think you are penalized, but I think you should.... why does one have to scroll side ways or way down to the bottom of the page through so much blank page to get to the keyword rich anchor text link to you on the 3 sites that link to you .... this is spam - both you and the network of sites involed should be penalized. Of what use are these links to the visitor to the sites?

Also, there are no bad or off topics links into the site.

They are all off topic (optician, playground) and bad !

CBP

[astoller]

Hi CBP
Thanks for taking the time to analyse links in to my site.
I ran optilink and it only shows internal links and one from another consultancy.
What s/w do you use to pink up these bad links?
I will, of course, have them removed inmmediately.
Art

[cyanide]

Originally Posted by astoller

My phrase is
"articles strategic management"
i.e. 3 words.
Still doesn't explain why ai am being
penalsied.

Okay, let's have a look here... on this page -->articles_strategic_management.htm
page name = articles_strategic_management.htm
title = articles strategic management
description = Articles on strategic management
keywords = articles strategic management
2x alt = articles strategic management
h4 = articles strategic management
h2 = PLANNING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS MARKETING
2xhref = STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

And only once did I see that phrase in the actual body of the text.

In the title, keywords, description, alt tags you have 100% keyword/phrase density.
This looks obvious that you are concentrating on this phrase. If I was google, I would filter the page out too

[cbp]

I did not use any software to find the links - they show up in SE's as backlinks.

I would not necessarily remove the - just make them proper links - why the atempt to hide them from visitors to those site? Off-topic links are OK - its just you claimed your links were on-topic. On-topic links help more.

CBP

[astoller]

CBP
I will have the off topic links removed.But what I don't get is how you picked up only 2 off topic links.
Google shows none.Yahoo shows 18 on-topic.
And neither shows the 2 you found.
I'd like to know so I can check for possible bad links from any other sites.

Cyanide
Yes, it looks repititive when you list things that way.
I will change them.
Thanks
Art

[cbp]

When I searched Yahoo, Hotbot, Altavista, AllTheWeb and Google yesterday, it only picked up 3 links.

CBP