Google Rankings

[philiporchard]

Current Google rankings for my city sites prior to launch. Seems like a funny blip towards middle of last week, but back to around an average of 170 again ;(

Thought it might be of interest.

 

[golddiggerguy]

Hey Phil. What you using to produce that chart?

 

[philiporchard]

Just logging results in Excel - I'm doing it manually
I'm slightly obsessive about the whole project, so don't mind!

 

[ScottJ]

I use the rank checker in FF but miss the legacy of past results like your chart.

 

[kendalcottages]

I wonder if the blip is a tracking problem rather than anything else...?

 

[philiporchard]

Possibly, but I've been using the same browser on the same PC. I do seem to get different results depending on browser, Mac or PC etc etc

 

[accelerator]

The blip could perhaps be people looking for accommodation for the Bank Holiday.

Rgds

 

[Johnkitty]

This is hard to have a look at your chat. So what is your chat about? Don't pay attention too much on the google page rank when there is no traffic to your site.

 

[retired_member34]

I use the rank checker in FF but miss the legacy of past results like your chart.

The seomoz rank checker will automatically check the rank weekly against your choice of keywords, and keep and chart the history. It is a paid tool, not sure if there are free alternatives. It is fun but ultimately vanity, of the 10K page views last month on one site last month (small I know, haven't started work on the sites full time yet - hopefully next month, can't wait!) less than 8% arose from the town name keyword alone.

Whatever may have been posted about what may have been "done" to your domains Phil, I'd be willing to bet that most of them will appear on page one for the city name within a month, two at most. The authority of the domain makes a big difference. I can't really compare as the towns I am targetting are far far smaller, and hence less competitive, but the last one I put up appeared on front page of G within a week.

 

[philiporchard]

Update of rankings... sites ares still holding pages, but a few links here and there may be helping.

Average position has dropped to around 100...

 

[RSK3000]

Position is vanity, profits is sanity.

 

[Americar]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4132195.htm

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this thread spans 13 pages and 378 posts

 

[ddwebguru]

I think this kind of chart can be generated easily in Google, provided that you have account in it. If possible, please give us some instruction how to draw this kind of chart.

 

[bensd]

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[rob]

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[Pred]

Position is vanity, profits is sanity.

they're inextricably linked
punn intended lol

 

[philiporchard]

Seems Google has crawled some of our sites nicely, but others not so quickly...

site:www.nottingham.co.uk

site:www.cardiff.co.uk

Any thoughts?

 

[retired_member34]

Seems Google has crawled some of our sites nicely, but others not so quickly...

site:www.nottingham.co.uk

site:www.cardiff.co.uk

Any thoughts?

Have you specified them all under Google Webmaster tools, and uploaded an XML sitemap for each there? After that, it is just a case of quality inlinks from external sites (not your own - Nottingham.co.uk seems to have some juicy old inlinks from a university site and others). Then, give it time.

 

[Pete99]

The changes that you're experiencing 'could' be to do with the changes to the Google algorithm (Mayday Update- approx. April 28-May 03 2010).

Effectively what this mean't is that some sites are losing 5-15% of their long tail traffic.

See: SEO Moz: Whiteboard Friday - Google's May Day Update & What It Means for You

 

[Pete99]

Seems Google has crawled some of our sites nicely, but others not so quickly...

site:www.nottingham.co.uk

site:www.cardiff.co.uk

Any thoughts?

1. Update Your XML Site Map.
2. Goto Google Webmaster Tools, there is a link that lets you resubmit the sitemap and ping Google and let them know you've updated your XML, news, or video sitemaps.

See:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34609