Visibility for https://goo.gl/gJH7eh
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Hi Mozzers,
I am wondering if anyone can help me with the following.
At the start of May this year we really lost visibility for the homepage of this site https://goo.gl/gJH7eh. This was particularly noticeable by tracking rankings for the term 'oak furniture'. We previously ranked on page 1 for the term 'oak furniture', but since May the homepage has struggled to make the top 100 positions for this term.
We're confident that we have done everything within Google's guidelines, but it seems something is really holding the homepage back. The site ranks on page 1 for 'oak furniture' on Bing.
The site had previously had a manual penalty for unnatural links (warning received several years ago). These links had a particular emphasis on using the anchor text 'oak furniture'. When we took over the site we did an extensive link clean up and disavow and managed to get the penalty removed at the end of October 2013.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Karen
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You might consider doing a disavow to be on the safe side.
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Hi Kristen,
Thank you very much for flagging H1s and IMG alts. We will look into them.
We've not had any manual penalties in search console for the past 2 years.
Karen
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Hi Isaak,
Have you done anything to the site recently? That's the mot obvious place to start, what could it be? I checked the backlinks to the site and noticed there are a lot of other domains redirecting to the site, for example":
<colgroup><col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 11562; width: 271pt;" width="361"></colgroup>
| http://www.woodfurniture.co.uk/ |
| http://www.thefurnitureemporium.com/ |
| http://www.lightoakfurniture.co.uk/ |
| http://www.mattresssolutions.co.uk/ |
| http://www.darkoakfurniture.co.uk/ |
| http://www.bedroomfurnituresolutions.co.uk/ |
| http://www.bedroom-oak-furniture.co.uk/ |
| http://www.tresoakfurniture.co.uk/ |
| http://www.thefurnitureemporium.co.uk/ |Were any of these (or other sites) recently redirected?
Craig
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To me it sounds like it could be one of three reasons:-
- somehow regained a penalty (Do another link cleanup)
- on-site issue (Make sure the relevant pages are appropriately optimised)
- competitors have done extensive SEO and blown you out the water (Run a competitor analysis)
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