Avinashsing Sunkur Blog

I lost most of my rankings for really good keywords in October 2008 but today it seems my website is back to normal in Google. Some keywords are ranking better than they used to back then and some are just a few places down in Google. Now i don't know whether this is a temporary thing, like some algorithm update but if that stays the same, i'll be a happy bunny. As far as the rankings themselves are concerned, most of the keywords have now become more competitive and larger companies ...

I've noticed a couple of problems with my site which could be pushing visitors/search engines away from the site in question. Here's what i found: Contact Page not working: I changed the url for the contact page about 3-4 months ago and thought it was working correctly but to my amazement it wasn't. I was checking the 404 stats today and noticed that since Aug last year, i had about 300 requests for this contact page which resulted in 404 error code because the page rewriting was messing things up which ...

The keywords that I am targetting are too closely aligned to the anchor texts of internal links on my website. Therefore instead of linking to a particular page with the page title as the anchor text, I will link to it using the subject instead. I remember i used to link to my inner pages with the subject but in an attempt to get better rankings, i switched over to linking with title tags. This had a very nasty consequence for me as i lost most if not all of ...

I've been badly hit by an over-optimisation penalty (also called OOP) by Google on one of my sites. This affects only certain URLs of my website and not the whole website. The symptoms are as follows: certain pages of the site are not indexed anymore (been deindexed and removed from google index) the affected pages show PR N/A ( PageRank Not/Applicable - grey toolbar) although they have been published and online for a while and witnessed Google PR Update (shame they didn't get any though) obviously you are no longer ranking for these ...

Probably since September/October last year, I noticed that a particular category on one of my sites has been penalised by Google. The reason for me to believe this is that even after Q3 PR update, most articles in this category remained at PR N/A while more recent articles managed to get PR0 or PR1. Now i have been trying to find out what the possible causes of this might be to no avail. So far I have concentrated my research on external factors like external links but today my attention was ...