Hi you all!
Im running a swedish comic-book site, http://www.seriersant.se.
I started the site in sep/oct 2012 and the orders have been pretty steady. We've had around 10-15 orders per week since launch, until about 6weeks ago, now we are down to 1-3 orders per week.
We haven't changed or updated the site with any extensions or any other code. Just new products.
I went to google and search for I few items that I knew, a couple a month ago, that we were ranked at first page, we now isn't ranked at all. In a few cases our old domain, who now only works as a redirect, comes up instead on page 3-4.
What has happened?
For example:
This product page: http://seriersant.se/brf-ensamheten
Trying Google search: "brf ensamheten"
Page rank: 83, with this link:
"Serier & Sånt - Sveriges mest välsorterade seriebutik
www.seriegrossisten.se/Köp. X-Factor Vol 18 Breaking Points. 169.00kr. Köp. Smurfs Vol 14 Baby Smurf. 65.00kr. Köp. Stockholmsnatt del 03. 165.00kr. Köp. Brf ensamheten. 135.00kr ..."
Very strange when we have perfect seo url.
We also have meta tag description, meta tag keywords, description, product-tags.
The reason I ask is because I have read in the past that redirects can dramatically affect page ranking. Also, do you have any url rewriting in your htaccess file which could be causing a problem. I would read up on this subject, see if it sheds some light... sorry that's all that comes to mind, especially if you have done all the usual SEO checks (you have validated the pages?) .
You are not showing any backlinks - that might have dropped your rankings. I would try to get some from comic book related sites, forums, etc.
Running Opencart v3.0.3.9 with multi-stores and the default template from https://www.labeshops.com which has links to all my stores.
I don't know if this helps but a quick validation check throws up some errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ne&group=0
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ne&group=0
This is my .htaccess:zara0 wrote:The reason I ask is because I have read in the past that redirects can dramatically affect page ranking. Also, do you have any url rewriting in your htaccess file which could be causing a problem. I would read up on this subject, see if it sheds some light... sorry that's all that comes to mind, especially if you have done all the usual SEO checks (you have validated the pages?) .
Is it all right?
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RewriteBase /
RewriteRule sitemap.xml /index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.seriersant.se [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://seriersant.se/$1 [L,R=301]
Apart from the likely massive outcome of searching here for the engine and ranks, etc., you may want to look at whatever is new at http://www.google.com/webmasters/ that you haven't recently seen or thought about.
There may have been a seemingly minor change that requires relatively minor adjustment.
Some changes in rank are inevitable. In effect, webmasters try to come up on top, engine hostmasters try to prevent that, and both find new ways. From time to time you see the changes. There's no announcement. It's been going on since long before there even was a Google. Engines even eye each other. Quite a while ago one of the best ever Boolean engines was eaten by a larger engine and was euthanized on its way down the hatch.
There may have been a seemingly minor change that requires relatively minor adjustment.
Some changes in rank are inevitable. In effect, webmasters try to come up on top, engine hostmasters try to prevent that, and both find new ways. From time to time you see the changes. There's no announcement. It's been going on since long before there even was a Google. Engines even eye each other. Quite a while ago one of the best ever Boolean engines was eaten by a larger engine and was euthanized on its way down the hatch.
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