How to Find problem domain history

[stevecounsell]

Hi

I have what most of you may think is a dumb question but here goes. please be nice...

So I have a client (http://www,ace-alarms.co.uk) who are having a real problem ranking for ANY of their key words.

I know it's a reasonably competitive area but I've not seen such a stubborn domain and it seems that no matter what we do there's nothing listed.

i'm thinking that there may be a problem with the domain name.

My question is; how can I find out if this is a problem domain.

Thanks in advance

Steve

[KevinBudzynski]

They are getting indexed=> site:ace-alarms.co.uk, so probably not a penalty.

[stevecounsell]

Looks like it's all OK. I know.

BUT... only 1 keyword in the top 50 "Ace-Alarms". That's to be expected though.

Thanks for the quick response.

Cheers

Steve

[EGOL]

You might check to be sure that their content isn't being scraped and republished.  Some really aggressive scrapers grab the content of sites in these difficult and valuable niches and republish it on their own domain.  I know of cases where sites are crawled many times per day looking for that new page of content.

Grab a unique sentences from a couple of pages, put it between quotes and see if dupes are out there.

[stevecounsell]

Great advice.  Not thought of that.

Thanks so much.