Effective Web Site Promotion…

I’ve been running a blog for almost a year now, but what baffled me was that it wasn’t appearing Google. I even tried searching for the URL itself, and still, Google shows as if my site is not online. Back then, I had no idea what san diego seo is, or that there’s such a thing as webmaster guidelines. Also, I’ve noticed that google has regular page rank updates and there are times when my site is high up on the scale, or it gets a PR 0.

I know a lot of you have this same experience, and like me, some might be new to san diego seo. Well, you are in luck, because I will give you several ideas to help you troubleshoot this Google issue so you get the page ranking that you deserve. Of course, in order for you to take advantage of the information on this article, you need to have your site re added and verified in your Google websmaster tools account.

According to several professional seo company, there are two kinds of Google penalties – algorithm based and manually driven. Algorithm based penalties means that your site may have been filtered by Google’s algorithm due to some linking or onsite issues. Sometimes, Google will penalize your site for sending a weak signal i.e the topic of your site cannot be discerned by the search engine or it is not relevant to searches. Your site can also get penalized for hidden texts especially when they are placed on important pages.

Sometimes when violations are too serious, Google take action and one of their human staff will review your site for violations of their quality guidelines and can possibly result to your site getting banned from Google.

Now that you understand how Google can penalize you, here’s a checklist you can use when troubleshooting for page ranking issues.

1. Check your site using this query site: www.yoursite.com or site:yoursite.com if you use the non-www version.

2. If your site does not appear, check your Google webmaster dashboard. Here, you will see if the googlebot has problems accessing your site. Sometimes it is blocked by a robot.txt so you’ll have to remove that.

3. It will also help to check if your homepage contains this source code: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>. Of you find it, then you need to remove it because this script is an instruction for google not to index your site.

4. Check for hidden texts on your site or possible keyword stuffing issues.

5. Check for duplicate content. Duplicate content does not cause your site to be banned by Google but their algorithm checks for other versions and yours could end up at the bottom of the SERPs.

6. Check for the quality of your inbound and outbound links. Make sure that these are related to your niche. Be honest – buying links from sites are no longer as effective as before and can even harm your site’s standing.

Louie Ang
http://www.articlesbase.com/web-design-articles/did-you-drop-your-page-ranking-735893.html

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