Excellent performance in BING, terrible performance in GOOGLE

[benhond]

Tnx Dmitrii,

It lead me to believe that Google might be punishing my platform for something that Bing isn't seeing.

Even within Google's results i can see that my homepage is ranking very bad (http://www.taobao.nl on keyword 'taobao') while category pages are ranking fine (search on 'taobao dameskleding' for example and the top 4 results are mine).

These 2 elements led me to believe there might be some technical reason for the not-ranking of my homepage. (note that the full focus is on the ranking of my homepage on keyword 'taobao' in Google)

Tnx again!

Sander

[DmitriiK]

Well, what you're saying is not true.

Example: if I search for "tree" the first result is not tree.com, because tree is a very generic phrase and tree.com doesn't have huge brand. However, if I look for "apple" apple.com comes up number 1,  due to brand associativity.

So, taobao is pretty generic word and, apparently, your brand is not big enough to overtake it. This is proved by category pages ranking high. Therefore invest in brand awareness and exposure.

As for Google "punishing" - i don't think so, because if you had some kinda penalty, it would be for domain, not for certain query. Basically, you wouldn't be rankings anywhere for anything.

Cheers.

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[Gabriele_Layoutweb]

Have you checked the site's backlinks in Moz Open Site Explorer? To me it seems there are some pretty spammy backlinks, could this be the reason?

You could try disavow them here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

[benhond]

Hi!

I also noticed that and around june/july i disavowed all those spammy links. In my Webmastertools account i don't see them anymore under 'inlinks'.

Regards,

Sander

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[benhond]

Tnx Josh,

I have been very careful with the disavow tool. During the months of June/July i received many adult inlinks. Of the nasty kind...  The opensiteexplorer tool indicated these links with a high spam rating.

These are the only ones i disavowed.

Any other reasons you see and can share would be appreciated!

Tnx, Sander

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[DirkC]

I checked your website and states nowhere that you are associated with taobao.com - so I assume you are just "hijacking" the Chinese brand name for your own benefit. On top of that - you "steal" the content from the original site and auto-translate it to Dutch.

To be very honest - I don't see a reason why Google would start promoting your site. When I search for Taobao Google I get the .com version in Chinese rather than the Dutch version (I am searching with Google.be/Dutch version)

Suppose that a German would consider it a good idea to copy Bol.com to Bol.de and copy the complete offer and auto translate it to German - I don't think Bol would be very happy with that and I have strong doubts that Google would index and promote this site. What you are doing is not that different (even if you do it with the best intentions)

Dirk

[benhond]

Dirk,

We make use of the official Taobao API. Just as the other hunderds of 'taobao agents'.

Sander