Can't seem to figure this out

pcs800 · 03-16-2005, 09:21 AM

My site ay www.bargainmonkey.com used to have about 100,000 pages indexed at google, and almost as many at Yahoo. Now we are down to 8,000 at google and 17 at yahoo. Yahoo carries the 17 only because we put out rss feeds for each of those pages.
Google keeps dropping more of our pages every day.
We have removed all doorways, started w3c validation on every page, have done everything we can think of, but google still continues to screw us.
Can some pro take a look at the site and tell me what is happening?
Thanks in advance.

Johan007 · 03-16-2005, 09:27 AM

7,940 is still not bad. Your PR is too low for more IMO. Get more inbound links though you do have loads your going to need a hell of alot more???

Also you mod-rewrite the URL... natural url's with QueryString's are best like page.asp?asp=13432 or page.php?article=343242 becuase many sites use mod-rewrite for Search Results to count as more pages eg: http://www.uncoverthenet.com/keyword/we-love-john/ and Google is clamping down on it.

You also have spaces in your URL menu consider replacing them with + or -.

w3c validation is bs...there is nothing wrong with non-valid HTML for SEO and I dont want go into why (too tired).

Web Gazelle · 03-16-2005, 11:41 AM

Google is all about inbound links. You can never have too many.

Buskerdoo · 03-16-2005, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Web Gazelle

Google is all about inbound links. You can never have too many.

Hmmmm

No solid proof at this time, but I wonder about this right now. I have sites with thousands of inbounds and sites with hundreds of very targeted inbounds. The hundreds, being in the norm for it's catagory, is doing great in gg. The thousands site, is ok, but not tops...

The jury is out...

Web Gazelle · 03-17-2005, 01:19 PM

All I know is I get inbound links and I see my rankings go up.