Google rank from #1 to #392! Why?

Hello,

I have problems with Google ranks with some of my sites.
They are quite old (3 years or more) and there are not "sandbox"
problems.

First, my domain xxxxx.it , where xxxxx is an Italian common word:
it used to rank #1 (!!!) in Google search for the same keyword (xxxxx).
Now it is #392!

What happened? I read somewhere that I must not write the domain name
at the beginning of the title and/or at the beginning of the page or
whatever. This may be the reason why ranking has dropped so much but...
I have other 2 italian sites with a similar situation (domain = common
name, that is at the beginning of the title and so on), and they still
rank #1 (!!!) and #4.

Then I have a domain in English, xxxxx-yyyyy-zzzzz.com
and the title of the homepage is exactly "xxxxx yyyyy zzzzz",
and the homepage begins with the same words.
If I search "xxxxx yyyyy zzzzz", ranking is #786 !!! (Absurd!).
I just changed the title (but it still contains the words yyyyy and
zzzzz somewhere) and I am waiting for better positioning...

However, I have another site in English, with a non-popular English
word in the domain: zzzzz.org . The title of the homepage begins with
zzzzz (+ other words) and the homepage either begins like that.
However, the site ranks #7 (total results: around 600,000)! So I am not
doing wrong with this site, but I don't understand why!

Thanks for any help

Giancarlo


Please let me know what I am doing wrong.

wrote:

Please let me know what I am doing wrong.

Giving an url instead of xxxx, yyy, zzz etc, might help.

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Giving an url instead of xxxx, yyy, zzz etc, might help

OK ( I did not want to do "spam" with the domains I am involved in).

www.natural-stress-relief.com:
the homepage has PR 3
but Google search for "natural-stress-relief" gives position #786 for
this page!

www.saggi.it:
the homepage has PR 3
and it used to rank #1 for the word "saggi"
(that in Italian means both "essays" and "sages"),
now it ranks #392!

Similar sites, such as ipotesi.net and segreto.net,
still rank top 10 (ipotesi is #1; segreto is #4).

I don't understand what is wrong with saggi.it
and natural-stress-relief.com

Thanks
Giancarlo
Italy

On 9 May 2005 12:01:26 -0700, amor99 (AT) iname (DOT) com wrote:

Giving an url instead of xxxx, yyy, zzz etc, might help

OK ( I did not want to do "spam" with the domains I am involved in).

www.natural-stress-relief.com:
the homepage has PR 3
but Google search for "natural-stress-relief" gives position #786 for
this page!

How many inbound links to the site have the anchor text "natural
stress relief"?
Betcha the no. 1 site has waaaaay more.
That'll probably be your problem.

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www.saggi.it:
the homepage has PR 3
and it used to rank #1 for the word "saggi"
(that in Italian means both "essays" and "sages"),
now it ranks #392!

Similar sites, such as ipotesi.net and segreto.net,
still rank top 10 (ipotesi is #1; segreto is #4).

I don't understand what is wrong with saggi.it
and natural-stress-relief.com

Thanks
Giancarlo
Italy

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How many inbound links to the site have the anchor text "natural
stress relief"?
Betcha the no. 1 site has waaaaay more.
That'll probably be your problem.

Most inbound links to the site have the anchor text "natural stress
relief".

I don't think this is the problem. There must be something else, a
"Google penalty" that I don't understand.

The same for saggi.it, that dropped from #1 to #392 with no apparent
reason!

Thanks,
Giancarlo

On 9 May 2005 15:02:23 -0700, amor99 (AT) iname (DOT) com wrote:

How many inbound links to the site have the anchor text "natural
stress relief"?
Betcha the no. 1 site has waaaaay more.
That'll probably be your problem.

Most inbound links to the site have the anchor text "natural stress
relief".

Yes maybe, but how many of them? And from where? Thematically related
authority sites on single pqges where you're the only obl or site-wide
from your mates'? Makes a diff you know.

I don't think this is the problem.

I do.

There must be something else, a
"Google penalty" that I don't understand.

Not necessarily.

The same for saggi.it, that dropped from #1 to #392 with no apparent
reason!

Depends why it was no. 1 in the first place.

BB

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