Dropped from Google?

[newcarj]

Okay- This is the first time I have ever psoted one of these messages. Let me know if I screw it up.

I'm a little lost.

About a year ago I created a new site to help people through the process of buying a new car. It’s something I’ve been doing for friends and family for a lot of years and I thought I had some good tips and advice to give people. Here’s my homepage—

http://www.newcarbuyingtips.com/

I had a friend help me with the style and trying to make it at least somewhat attractive to the spiders. I began paying for clicks with adwords and then started to get some pretty good ranking on my keywords—new car buying—new car deal etc etc. I was getting lots of top 30 rankings and rankings in the top ten for 10 0r 12 different search terms.

Then BAM it’s like I dropped off the map, over the edge, disappeared. One day I’m getting some traffic and good rankings with a page rank of 7 and the next day I can’t buy a clue.

I took a year off and just let things lie but I’d like to get things up and running again. I’m listed in lots of the smaller search engines but it’s like Google is still ignoring me. My page rank is 4 and I show 2 backward links even though I’m listed on many more pages than that.

Oh God –I’m whining.

Any advice that can be given would be much appreciated. Sorry for the life story. I guess I should have written sooner.

Thanks JOHN

[dilligaf]

John, Welcome to the forums. Google is all about links and anchor text so pretty much all you can do to get noticed is to get a ton of incoming links with the anchor text new car buying or whatever specific terms you're targeting on that page.

Google just shows rasndom links and not near the actual total. Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newcarbuyingtips.com&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt) says you've got 117

[newcarj]

dilligaf-- Thanks for the response. So there is still a point in me getting links to this site. At some point even Google is going to recognize me. Thanks

JOHN

[repman]

That's just a guess, but I think you may be banned from G because you used phrase "new car buying" too often. If I were you I would only leave one on the top of the page (say H4), and 1-2 in the text below. And build links with different anchor text (not "new car buying" in every link), say: "new car buying advice", 'new car", "new car buying tips", etc. This should help. And don't worry about PR.

[gina]

John,

You have a really useful website. Great advice, repman!

Gina

[SEO1]

Hi there

Who said you were not listed on google??

typing in www.newcarbuyingtips.com to the google search bar brings up your site name so you have been indexed.

This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.newcarbuyingtips.com/ as retrieved on Oct 15, 2004 00:41:54 GMT.
G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.

Next you told the bots to only come and see your site twice a month. :confused:

<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 DAYS">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="index,follow"><--there should be a space before follow.

And you did noit include a meta name for googlebot

Do you have a robots.txt file on your server ??

Also you do not have a sitemap...need one of those ...

From Google

Design and Content Guidelines:

* Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
* Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.

Next you have the word "links" on your page...thats a google no-no not many others know...google hates the term used on webpages...better to use..."car resources" "car tips" etc.

Next your meta tags are misformed.

Yours are

<title>New Car Buying Tips</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<META name="description" content="New Car Buying Guide from the New Car Buying Authority. New car buying tips and techniques, invoice pricing and safety information.">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="KeyWords" content="new car, new car buying, car insurance, car leasing, extended warranty, car loan, new car price, car loan calculator,
car safety, bad credit car loan, used cars, car accessory, car buying advice">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 DAYS">


Should be

<title>New Car Buying Tips</title>
<META name="description" content="New Car Buying Guide from the New Car Buying Authority. New car buying tips and techniques, invoice pricing and safety information.">
<meta name="KeyWords" content="new car, new car buying, car insurance, car leasing, extended warranty, car loan, new car price, car loan calculator,
car safety, bad credit car loan, used cars, car accessory, car buying advice">
From here add back in all the other lesser metas and such below.

Also your title is "New Car Buying Tips" Nice title heres the thing in your metas you bury your targeted keyword in the middle of the meta description, pushing the weight and density of the keyword ( Thereby the importance to less than 50% )actually since it seems there are five terms in the meta description the % would look like this:

New Car Buying Guide 100% weight
New Car Buying Authority 80% weight
New car buying tips 60% weight
nvoice pricing 40% weight
safety information 20 % weight

Then for added pleasure the term is not in your meta keywords...no biggie to google but now yahoo is using meta keywords for content matching against body content.

In fact I would be surprised if you ranked better for "new car buying" as opposed to "new car buying tips"

Hope this helps


Clint

[newcarj]

Repman--thanks for the tips I thought I had the word density right but I will definately give that a try JOHN

[newcarj]

Gina- Glad you liked it. I hope people do find it helpful. JOHN

[newcarj]

Clint- WOW I know what I'm doin this weekend. Thanks for taking all the time. To tell you the truth I'm not sure I know exactly what these things do but I am looking forward to learning. Thanks for giving me the direction JOHN