Poor Site Performance

[BobGW]

Hello,

A couple of months ago, this site was dropped from google due to a noindex, nofollow tag

thewealthymind(dot)com

It's back up, but performing poorly. Take for example the term "The 4 step belief change" in the home page title tag. This site is the #1 authority on that and yet it ranks 3rd below weaker pages.

There's 180 404 errors in GWT, many from past versions of pages of the site but also including

thewealthymind(dot)com/index.html

and

thewealthymind(dot)com/index.htm

even though there is a rel=cononical tag on the home page.

What's the process of getting this site back to health?

[ShaMenz]

Hi Bob,

The term you referenced "the 4 step belief change" appears nowhere else but in the Title.

The shortened term "4 step belief change" also appears in the meta description.

Neither term appears anywhere within the text on that page.  So the primary issue seems to be that there is nothing on the page to signal relevance for that term to search engines

Hope that helps,

Sha

[VividIT]

Hey Bob,

Along with Sha's answer, you may want to redirect those 404 errors in GWT with a 301 redirect. The canonical tag is not as strong a signal as the 301 redirect and sometimes gets ignored completely.

Thanks,

Tom

[BobGW]

Shoot, you're right. Can't believe I missed that. Let me check out the site's strength again.

[BobGW]

Thanks tbrems, that's what's happening

[BobGW]

Could you take a closer look. I've been looking closely and the site seems to be weak for many terms