Help seems like google is punishing our site and I don't understand why
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I would love some helpMy anme is Suzanne Diamond our web site is WWW.thefutonshop.com we have been on line for years, 10 brick and mortar stores, had a strong ecommerce web site but in the past 4 months we have been dropping like a leaf.
Organic search has been dropping since November 2012 but now total traffic seems to be slowing
We are working on our SEO but I feel it has to be something more direct that we are being punished by google
Perhaps it s obvious but not to me
Can anyone help me please or give me a direction.
thanks in advance for any direction
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Hey Steve, what are you seeing? A loss on just a few big keywords or a more general loss?
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We've had a similar problem at AdCracker.com, and I'm beginning to think it has more to do with Google algo changes rather than our site.
Marcus?
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Hey Suzanne
I did some very simple searching and found no glaring or obvious problems.
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no obvious heavy external duplication
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link profile does not look overly spammy
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you rank for a range of page titles in reasonable positions (3 / 4 etc)
I think we likely have some internal duplication
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Google this: "Our Organic Cotton comes from Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC), the largest organic cotton cooperative""
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The competition has a whole bunch more links than you
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There is not really any content beyond the product pages themselves (which seem to be well put together)
_* Caveat that this was a 5 minute look! _
I had a look at several pages and products and found you searching for page related terms so I am not sure you have a problem as such. Could you possibly provide a bit more information?
- have you lost rankings or traffic (or both)
- are sales effected
- are there new competitors
- are competitors doing more on PPC
I find that you rank really well for a whole range of terms so if it is just some homepage terms it may be that a competitor is doing more marketing or that there is just more competition.
Would be interested to find out a little more or to dig into your analytics and see what is going on.
Hope that helps
Marcus
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Suzanne
Before your rankings started dropped, was there any specific you were doing on your website in terms of SEO/Internet Marketing ?
Any Social Media stuff ?
I see your rankings were relatively much better same time last year. This year, it's been much worse. However, you have not fallen off completely.
Did you hire any SEO services ? Any link building ? Any Google unnatural links warnings ? The timing of your rankings dropping coincides with some updates last year.
Are you signed up and verified in Google Webmaster Console ?
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