Questions
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Im I being hit by hummingbird?
Hey Doug, First off thanks for the great answer and useful links. Our organic traffic has been hurting the last two months. When I checked webmaster tools I had no messages and when I checked the links to your site it is saying no data available. Anything you would suggest to try? Thanks again
Search Engine Trends | | Nicktaylor10 -
All keywords increasing rank except URL Keyword, whats going on?
Google prioritizes results that they consider more valuable. Imagine someone looking for a private equity firm database, they WON'T type private equity firms, as those who enter that are either looking for the meaning of "private equity firms" or news about "private equity firms". Google might have ranked you on top for some time, but after the release of hummingbird, everything changed, now Google tries to "understand" what you are thinking, what you are looking for and present the best possible results, not only based on the query itself, but also taking into account search history, habits, etc. You should also consider that your Website, compared to the others shown for that specific query, has a very low domain and page authority. Plus it lacks of any kind of social signals.
Search Engine Trends | | FedeEinhorn0 -
Why did I fall off the SERP for my url query? Im i being penalized?
I cant pinpoint the date but it has been in the last 3-4 weeks. We have never purchased links in the past. As for the Panda algorithm we were ranking as high as third for the term with all those slim content pages so i dont think that is it, but ill look more into it. We have two versions of the site, a paid and example. So it shows 2x the pages when a site: search is done, the HTTP and the HTTPS. That is something we are working on fixing. Thanks for you help and if you have any other idea what could be causing this please share. I also added another picture showing the drop, maybe its more helpful
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nicktaylor10 -
I'm I being penalize? I fell off SERP for main keyword
Maybe, Links play a big whole on your ranking, and without this 301 you loss big part of your link profile.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Felip30 -
Moz Showing 1500+ errors on my site but webmaster showing 130ish. Whats going on?
Hi Nick, It is pretty normal to see discrepancies between data from different sources. Google and Moz have different crawlers with different datasets, so it is often the case that you will see different numbers - I've never seen them match up! I very much doubt that crawl errors like this would be causing big fluctuations in your rankings. Google have gone on record saying that crawl errors are very unlikely to directly impact rankings. Having said that, it's still best to try and fix errors wherever possible. As pointed out below, you can use a tool like Screaming Frog to verify the data that is being show to you by Moz and Google and then go and check those pages. I hope that helps! Paddy
Behavior & Demographics | | Paddy_Moogan0 -
Google site: search showing twice amount of indexed pages. why?
are you sure it's an http vs https, and not a www vs non-www issue? Thanks again
Behavior & Demographics | | Nicktaylor10