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Why so low in google rankings?

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  • 17-10-2013 12:29am
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    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭


    With a URL such as weatherinireland.com why is my site barely in the top 100 of search for 'weather in ireland' ?

    My site is a google hosted blogger account which i redirect to from my domain hosting company, could this be the cause of the issue?

    I don't expect to get that high in the rankings but I thought with a URL so related to the key word search that it would be a lot higher than it is.

    Any tips would be greatly appreciated :)


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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Well all I can see is 404s everywhere, so that'll kill your ranking dead.


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    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    tricky D wrote: »
    Well all I can see is 404s everywhere, so that'll kill your ranking dead.

    That's just today as i am trying to redirect things so a few DNS changes!

    Be back up in a bit hopefully!


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    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Okay it is back online.

    Any help would be great. :)


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    Sútalún
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Sútalún


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    Okay it is back online.

    Any help would be great. :)

    As far as I'm aware Google have changed is so far as a URL with keywords in it doesn't benefit a website in terms of search anymore.

    Also, quite a few grammar and spelling mistakes, needs to be eradicated.


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    pingpipe
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭pingpipe


    It looks like you may still need to setup your MetaTags and Description, I think that you can do that from the "Settings"section of your control panel in Blogger, there's also instructions on how to do for each page that in Blogger on the Google Sites page


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    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Sútalún wrote: »
    As far as I'm aware Google have changed is so far as a URL with keywords in it doesn't benefit a website in terms of search anymore.

    Also, quite a few grammar and spelling mistakes, needs to be eradicated.

    I don't think my poor grammear is eaffecting my google ranking tbh :pac:


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    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    pingpipe wrote: »
    It looks like you may still need to setup your MetaTags and Description, I think that you can do that from the "Settings"section of your control panel in Blogger, there's also instructions on how to do for each page that in Blogger on the Google Sites page

    Well that helps, i never had the MetaTags on at all never mind on each page!


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    mayo.mick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭mayo.mick


    McAfee is throwing up a warning for me, blocked content fro suspicious sites?
    the warning is on todays extremes.

    Swinford Weather



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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Sútalún wrote: »
    As far as I'm aware Google have changed is so far as a URL with keywords in it doesn't benefit a website in terms of search anymore.
    They are still important in URLs.
    Weathercheck wrote: »
    Well that helps, i never had the MetaTags on at all never mind on each page!
    Description tag is important but keywords are pretty much ignored except for Bing using them to identify keyword spamming.
    mayo.mick wrote: »
    McAfee is throwing up a warning for me, blocked content fro suspicious sites?
    the warning is on todays extremes.

    That's a rank killer.


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,945 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    My site is a google hosted blogger account which i redirect to from my domain hosting company, could this be the cause of the issue?

    This is not intrinsically a problem: I run several sites with a setup like this, and am front page, if not in top 2-3 results, for some keywords - including some where I am competing with the likes of buseireann.ie.


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