updating websites, prices, fit rates etc

dansk · Jun 3, 2012

its your internal page i can see. sometimes if your "signed in" that squews the listings and also i have to clear cookies, pain in the --- is Google sometimes, its trying to be clever by providing what it thinks you want to see.

Gavin A · Jun 3, 2012

eta - thanks for checking for me.

yeah, I do the search checks via the incognito browser on chrome, which basically signs you out of everything, though google still knows your location.

It was our front page that was ranking at number 3 (well, average of 2.9), and then apparently dropped straight from 2.9 to 30 on the 30th May. Hard to tell if it's affected anything else really, as they only show up over a longer period.

alternatively it's something to do with changes I made due to our little competition, or google noticing something else I'd done because of me submitting the page at that point..... I'd only just finished getting us back up the rankings for that term after we'd dropped right down a couple of months back after we changed part of our front page to flash. arse.

dansk · Jun 3, 2012

just leave it for a few days im sure it will return, out of interest have you seen it at posistion 3 with your own eyes, or just from the reports?

Gavin A · Jun 3, 2012

not personally, as I say it seemed that the google places listing was featuring instead of our standard listing for people in Leeds. I had someone in middlesborough check it for me though last week, and he said we were 3rd in the natural listings for the front page, which matched with what the google webmasters tools was telling me.

I had possibly done a couple of other things it might not have liked though, so will try resubmitting the page now I've undone those bits. Not a huge issue, more a bit of a pain in the arse, and maybe a bit of a warning not to try anything too dodgy in name of SEO coz google are like the all seeing eye, and can strike you down at will.