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    • phaistonian
      phaistonian last edited by

      Hello.

      Any idea why site:www.bestprice.gr query doesn't bring the www.bestprice.gr as the first result?

      Could it be that the site is under a penalty?

      Thanks.

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      • seomasterbrasil
        seomasterbrasil last edited by

        Hello,

        It don't appear in any page? Weird...

        Maybe robots.txt, meta robots?

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        • phaistonian
          phaistonian @seomasterbrasil last edited by

          Nothing weird on robots.txt. (http://www.bestprice.gr/robots.txt)

          As for the "meta robots", please elaborate.

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          • seomasterbrasil
            seomasterbrasil @phaistonian last edited by

            Let me check your page...

            (thinking)

            Meta robots is an alternative way to say to Google that he can go to an specific page, but just what you want him to do, like indexing, but nofollowing. The list is below:

            The standard is INDEX, FOLLOW, that's why it doesn't appear above.
            

            But I checked your site, it don't have that there, so it's not meta robots.

            Font: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html

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            • phaistonian
              phaistonian @phaistonian last edited by

              Oh, no, nothing like that indeed.

              We, in fact,  render meta tags (description and keywords) only if the user-agent is identified as bot.

              Here is how GoogleBot "sees" the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1TyyWcAAVlsJ:www.bestprice.gr/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

              Again, as you said, weird.

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              • QPLF
                QPLF last edited by

                I don't think your site is under a penalty, if it were, you would not see any links in the search result.

                It is weird, especially since the query "bestprice.gr" and "www.bestprice.gr" (no "site:" ) bring up the root domain as the first result.

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                • phaistonian
                  phaistonian @QPLF last edited by

                  That's what I think too.

                  However, I do feel this has to do with some kind of penalty or issue concerning our site.

                  If any clues come up, please share.

                  Thanks.

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