Ranking 1st on Google, but not in top 50 on Bing and Yahoo?
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Hi Mozzers,
Roughly 2 weeks ago we were ranked:
#2 on Google for "African American Business Owner Mailing Lists"
#2 on Bing
#2 on YahooNow we are ranked
#1 on Google#50 on Bing
#50 on YahooI noticed a lot of our other keywords improved on Google during this period but vanished from the other 2 search engines.
Other KWs include
"Apartment Owner Mailing Lists " (#4 on Google)
"Community College Mailing Lists (#3 on Google)
etc.What gives?
Thoughts? -
I think we recently dropped, I pulled all these numbers from SEOmoz's rankings reports.
Thanks for the tip though, I have definitely made the mistake of being logged into a Google account while checking my rankings in the past!
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Kenyon it is possible that you have misunderstood what an "EMD" is, as this applies to the domain (Exact Match Domain), not the page file name. If you wanted to use an EMD for new content every time you'd need to buy a new domain for every post.
I understand that you may be using the term loosely here, but wanted to clarify so other readers do not get confused.
Thanks!
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I see you at #8 on Google for the first keyword phrase you mentioned. Be sure your results aren't being personalized.
I noticed in your robots.txt file all of the disallows statements are just for Googlebot. Is there a reason for that? Perhaps if you made those disallow statements for all spiders it might help.
Good luck!
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The answer is in all 3 engines, Goole, Bing, Yahoo---are all ranking key words differently. Because Google is the biggest on the planet I would not sweat it as you are in good real estate for what you are doing. Where do you want to spend your seo---on a big traffic generator or some minor ones. As long as Google takes 87% of the market keep ranking for them. As your traffic grows the other minor players will start to rank you. DO NOT try to change what you are doing to show up on a site that is significantly smaller than Google. It makes no sense.
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You can try adding the keywords in the meta field I also know that bing is really favorable on EMD's Exact match domain. So you might want to try and do a blog post on your site with the url containing the keywords you want to rank for. Bing and Yahoo are less sophisticated then google so you can get away with EMD's Meta keywords, higher keyword density. That being said don't go crazy on keyword density that will hurt you with google.
NEW CONTENT USE EMD's Trust ME
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Hmm, we have recently started not using meta keywords for newer content, but some of these older pages still had them and dropped anyways.
I'll look into i ta little bit more.
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I have noticed when i add meta keywords in my websites for keywords im targeting bing comes back around and ranks my site's quite high. I know a lot of people say "if i use meta keywords then my competitors know what I'm trying to target" Who cares just do what you do and keep building quality content and authority and you will be perfect.
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