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alonk
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Mar-21 12:09
My site was always in Google's top ten for its major search term, "ketubah"
Now it's gotten weird: On some days, my site is now ranked in the 50s. Other days it is ranked 480!
My homepage goes from being indexed one minute to not being indexed at all (without me changing anything.)
Is this BigDaddy or am I doing something obviously wrong?
-I've reoptimized
-I never did any black hat
-I put in 301s code in my .htaccess
-I have google sitemaps
-I have a robot text redirecting dead links to good links
Other pages of mine with have a pagerank of 0 come up #1-#5 for searches like, "orthodox ketubah" or "buy ketubah"!
I'm guessing that there is something specifically amiss with my home page (even though it has a good pagerank, lots of quality links to it, etc...)
What would make my homepage unstable?
I'd appreciate any and all insights! It's frustrating to be going this alone.
Thank you.
(by the way - a ketubah is a wedding contract in judaism. it is also my entire source of income.)
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Mar-21 12:30
Welcome to the forums alonk!
...and thanks for explaining what that was - I was about to Google it. 
Results being up and down seems to be the norm these days with Google.
Sounds like you hit the high points for good optimization - how are you doing with building good one-way, inbound links?
Don't sweat the indexing thing - if you're there, you are there - if you "seem" to drop out after that, it's likely just Google messing about with their new toys.
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alonk
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Mar-21 21:07
I could probably be better with the one-way links. Not quite sure how to actively go about doing that... Google says there are 240 sites that contain my site's nmae. 44 links.
That's better than my competitors who are in the top-ten without having done any optimization.
I used to have a lot of reciprocal links, but stopped going for them since many were low page rank.
I feel like I must have done something dumb with my site (not black hat, but just dumb) that's keeping me low-ranked. I do great with other search engines and with my non-home page.
Any ideas out there?
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Mar-21 21:12
Google has at least 80 datacentres. They all have slightly different versions of the index.
Additionally, Google is testing a new version that is vastly different to the others.
You can check them out by accessing each Google datacentre using the IP address for it.
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alonk
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
# Posts: 17
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Posted: 2006-Mar-22 02:58
I know about the 80 google datacenters - but why are my competitors staying in the top ten? Is it that it will take months before my latest optimizations will filter through all the centers?
I fell off the charts before BigDaddy...
I'm positive that there is something that google is seeing wrong about my site - just can't figure it out.
I appreciate this forum and all the support.
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edcks
Joined: Jan 08, 2006
# Posts: 66
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Posted: 2006-Mar-22 04:02
Just out of curiosity, is your site build under some sort of content management systems or applications? coz i notice there lots of pictures and i feel like ur product catalog is manage by a CMS. Correct me if i am wrong
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alonk
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Mar-22 11:43
Actually, I'm not using any CMS. I have always hand-coded my site with PageSpinner. I use a simple javascript script to load the images.
I'm working on adding more content to the various pages of my site that only have images so far. Currently, the pages that get the highest ranking are one that are 90% text. (like if you do a search for "orthodox ketubah" my page is #1 - all descriptive text. It has a pagerank of 0!)
It's almost like google is rewarding pages that have gone back to a pre-image, pre-customized era. Notice how many wikipedia or pure text pages come up in the top ten these days.
Anyone else seeing this?
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