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Thanks,

Its does not contain any hyphens and its a .co.uk domain targeting the UK.

Yeah well fingers crossed anyway,

It was more of a impulse buy really, sore this term might get 30,000 searches a month the emd was free and like I said no comp really, so I was kinda hoping it would just jump through the results to page one, near enough straight away.

But like I say its only been a few hours really, so maybe I will see more movement in the next few days.

I got a feeling your right though and im going to have to do some link building to get it moving.

Hi,

I got a landing page which went up last night about 11pm.

Its been indexed and ranked since then.

Its a EMD and has about 600 words of unqiue content.

It currently sits on page 9 for what I would say is a non competitive term (the top result is not an EMD and has 10 backlinks from the same site, which has no PR).

Now my question is this:

Would you say that page 9 is the given position Google thinks this website should sit at? Or because its so new could I very much expect some more movement? Basically up the rankings?

Cheers

Didn't know that, thanks

Barry what does that query do?

Ok,

Have you tired clearing all cookies on both browsers and then checking?

Uh that as well, good shout Barry.

When your logged in Google starts to customise your results depending on the searches performed.

On each browser go to Google's homepage and at the bottom make sure both are set to the same Google location.

If one has .com set and the other has .co.uk set then your going to see a difference in ranking.

Was this the problem?

I cant say that it is down to the panda update because im not 100% sure but from what your saying about the spun content and what you can see the panda update is all about then its likely to be.

Although the update is in July it does not mean your be hit straight away, but its only been a month from the update to you loosing results in the index and it just so happens the update is to combat duplicate and spun content.

Have your load times decreased?

Its the content.

Google launched an update to its algo called the panda update which basically hammered duplicate/spun content websites this year.

If you Google 'Google panda update' have a little read your find loads of ammo to throw back.

Well I just checked our webmaster tools and on average 1-2 seconds is a fast load time, so im 99% here your correct that its not load times.

When you say 'spun up' do you mean you have 1.2m pages which are basically spun content? If so thats most likely the problem.

As long as the content is found on your website first before anything else you should be ok with the panda update.

Regarding the datafeed and resellers or affiliates, its just the way it is, they run the risk of being flagged with duplicate content.

There cats and sub cats should contain unique content then its up to them to either block Google from the duplicate content pages which will 99% of the time be product pages, which means know long tail keyword terms or roll with it and combat it with different SEO methods.

Far as I can see there is know work around, what your describing is a overall problem for all resellers and affiliates.

It could be the structure,

You might find Google is struggling to find those pages that you want crawled.

If those pages are 5 clicks away from the homepage Google will need to follow down those links as well to find it.

So you could have homepage - category - sub category - paging number 9 - page you want found.

Just a thought!

I would use the current posts as the blog area of the eCommerce website, I would then create new cats for the products you actually want to push.

If you find one of your posts is relevant to a product I would then create an anchor text link back to the product, I would even keep that blog section running with the posts and keep linking out to products when relevant.

Ok basically what he is saying is your website might be generating clicks from a keyword which has more potential if it moved up the rankings a little.

So he is saying take all the keywords from Google analytics which generated a click from organic (say over a 3 month period) and paste them into Adwords keyword tool as exact match.

You might find a keyword which generated 20 clicks actually has a monthly search volume of 5,000.

Because this keyword has 5, 10, 20 clicks it must not be that far away from page 1 as users don't really dive deeper then page 2 of Google (in general) and your getting clicks for it.

So that would be a good keyword to aim for in your SEO efforts (as long as its relevant to your industry).

If you find a keyword like this, you could most likely search for it in Google and find your result within the first couple of pages.

Hope this makes sense.

Sorry,

My blog is external from the website and its only purpose is for SEO.

It gets a 300 word post each day.

Is it better to spread the posts across 5 blogs or to put them all on one blog?