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Thanks a bunch Matt! Your kind response seems to have solved it. I have re-submitted a request to Google today to re-index the site, so I'm hoping the problem will have resolved itself in the next few days. Thank you again! Cem

Very helpful Robert. Thank you and ciao. Bob

It's not just the "average position" that matters - total number of impressions is a critical consideration in understanding what's going on.  When you've got less than 50 impressions, it means that your listing showed up in results less than 50 times, regardless of position (not all instances necessarily had a particular entry in the actual #1 position).   It's not unusual for a new site or new content within an existing site to fluctuate in rankings. Google has several algorithms - as one is run, a particular page might be placed in a certain ranking position temporarily.  Then when another algorithm is run, the results could impact the original placement up or down.   Over time, part of the process also includes Google varying placement in order to gauge reactions - if not enough people click on a listing in a certain ranked position, that will further impact results the next time a similar search is performed. The key is to to focus on the longer-term experience and steadily build signals to reinforce "this page deserves to be ranked highly".

Thanks for helping me bounce the ideas around.  Always valuable comments from SeoMozzers!  Have a good day!

That most probably because Google spider does not find many links to this page and allocates less time in crawling. Also you XML sitemap is not complete. Add all your webpages to the XML sitemap, submit you sitemap to Google using webmasters tools and using same tool fetch as google bot and resubmit your website and all linked pages to google again.

There's a lot of things companies do with their websites that are bad ideas and paid links are a big one.

Thank you for this, looks like i need to get on top of this and start using it on my site.

I don't think thats the reason at all, i'd say thats more the fact they are harder to register than a .co.uk or .com etc... to register them they need to be the exact match to the companies registered name or the registration gets rejected, this has stopped the abuse that other TLD's have received over the years. I was looking for answers based on actual experience of working with the domains, but thanks anyway. www.autogas.ltd.uk seem to do ok seeing as their link profile isn't that impressive, with only a tiny 68 linking root domains!

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help!

If the blog is on a separate URL I would set up a new blog on the actual domain of the site and import the DB from the off site blog, and keep the content but under the main domain instead. Redirect the old blog URL to the new domain.com/blog/ URL. That is assuming that you aren't getting a huge amount of traffic from the blog which is driving traffic to the main site and converting.

my domain name is www.deoveritas.com and about us page was published 5 years back

Thanks you so much, it seems obvious now you've pointed it out. Thank you for your help!

Thank you both for your timely response. I think we have enough content for separate pages, I will bring up the breadcrumb in our discussion. We are using the tabs as navigation, so we may look at alternatives to accommodate a parent/child relationship.

Oops sorry I misunderstood - thought you meant Google, but at least Keri jumped in there and gave you the answer

Without knowing the site there could be any number of potential causes.  On-site search? internal links?  Original site set up that has since changed but had been crawled before a change?  As for other issues and not having current pages indexed, I'd look at the robots.txt file, page header signals (noindex as one example, canonical tag usage as another)...