Post Jagger - A good case for study.

[harish318]

I run a B2B portal. The url is www.allindiaclub.com/asps/business_index.asp. It has 31 sub categories like Agriculture, Automobile etc. All these 31 pages are static html pages.

PRE JAGGER RANKING
All these 31 pages were on 1st page of google search for keywords (category name + indian directory) like
Agriculture Indian Directory
(url http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/agr...-directory.htm)
Automobile Indian Directory
(url http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/aut...-directory.htm)
Chemicals Indian Directory
(url http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/che...-directory.htm)
Industrial Supplies Indian Directory
(url http://www.allindiaclub.com/asps/ind...-directory.htm)
....and so on

More than 15 pages had RANK 1

POST JAGGER RANKING
All pages have lost their ranking. Some pages are on positions between 60 - 70 and most are not their at all.

I think its a very good case for study. Can anyone put light on possible reasons for this drastic change ?

Harish

[texxs]

Ok, I'm ew to S.E.O. but aren't these sites classic examples of a link farm?

Or is a "directory"?

I quess maybe google is thinking it's a link farm.

The meta tags say directory though. There is a fine line between directory and link farm and I think you are on the directory side.

Try contacting google and asking them to reconsider. They do sometimes.

[cspelts]

Honestly, I think you were lucky to rank well before. The pages you mention above, appear to be just a list of links - there's no real content. If you really want to rank well for "Indian Automobiles" then maybe you should add some content on Indian automobiles?

[harish318]

Ok, I'm ew to S.E.O. but aren't these sites classic examples of a link farm?

texxs, this is not at all a link farm. The links are internal links linking to internal pages of the site.

Harish

[harish318]

Honestly, I think you were lucky to rank well before. The pages you mention above, appear to be just a list of links - there's no real content.

cspelts, Post Jagger the site that currently tops for the keywords I mentioned too is just a list of links with no content. Its a similar type of B2B directory site.

If you really want to rank well for "Indian Automobiles" then maybe you should add some content on Indian automobiles?

My keyword is "Automobile Indian Directory" and not "Indian Automobile" and the site is a B2B Directory so there should be no reason for Google to get confused.

Thus there seems to be some other reason than mentioned by you and texxs
Harish

[freehits]

The arguments here agaisnt a link site are irrelevent since he said the search is for
"KEYWORD + Indian directory".

Since the search is for a directory, how could that be a problem.

Where i agree the changes may be anti directory....

so I should say. It SHOULD not be a problem for that search, though it may be related still.

[cspelts]

The arguments here agaisnt a link site are irrelevent since he said the search is for
"KEYWORD + Indian directory".

In theory, yeah, okay. But in reality, Google tends to prefer pages with content. If you want to rank well for "KEYWORD + Indian directory," a good way to do that is to create a page with content about that keyword in India.

harish318, you say you have thirty-one categories like Agriculture, Automobile, etc., so why not write a couple of paragraphs of text for each of those pages. It's a fairly small job, and would make Google happy!

[ADAM Web Design]

Extremely high percentage of link anchor text vs. regular text.

No header tags.

Bloated code.

Javascript not in its own directory.

That's just for starters.

You lost your ranking because you deserved to.

[LinkMaster]

Extremely high percentage of link anchor text vs. regular text.

No header tags.

Bloated code.

Javascript not in its own directory.

That's just for starters.

You lost your ranking because you deserved to.

Dude, you are WAY off base with those kind of comments. Your website only has a PR1. Who are you to talk like that? Telling someone they deserved to lose their ranking is a very rude and arrogant comment. Show me your #1 ranking under a phrase that has 100,000,000 sites competing for it - then you can toot your horn and act like an authority.

CNN has more anchor text vs. regular text than his website does. The rest of the "problems" that you sited don't hold any water. His website actually looks better than yours. The only real problem that I can see with the pages he asked about is a lack of inbound links.

I don't know why I even come to these forums (which I rarely do anymore). It's like the blind leading the blind.

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[glengara]

*Can anyone put light on possible reasons for this drastic change?*

All pages from www.allindiaclub.com seem to be supplemental..