Fully indexed site absent from search results

[Neilbwd]

:confused: My website, (VancouverArtShow.ca) has 288 pages indexed, all of them full of relevant images and content, and it has over 100 inbound links. It has a page rank of 3, and Google has no problems crawling it. It is over a year old, and yet it doesn't appear in search results at all, for any search words whatsoever.

Every few months it appears right on page 1 or 2 of the results for "Vancouver Art" or similar search phrases, and then a day or two later it disappears completely again.

I've been following Google's guidelines and concentrating on content and SEO for a year now, to no avail. Something else must be keeping me out of the search results. It has been suggested that the site has DNS problems, but how can I check that out, and if it is the problem, how can I fix it? If not, what else could it be? :confused:

[beu]

It seems you have a large number of keywords in your meta keywords. I'd remove most of them and place the TITLE as well as description above the keywords. You might consider removing your domain name from so many pages and making your TITLEs more unique. I would also think about breaking the first page into multiple pages.

Are you nofollowing paid links passing PageRank?

When you say the site doesn't rank do you mean on Google.com or Google.ca?

[jag]

Hi Neilbwd,

As bue said target inique keywords in title and dont stuff in meta keywords, use your target keywords on the meta description twice with meaning full statements and content woth keyword density minimum 2% and max 6% (Sometimes Depends on industry) , where spiders feel happy when they crawl :p

Try this one

<title>Vancouver Art Show, Art prints and Galleries</title>

<title>Vancouver Art Show</title> ( Found from your home page) - Avoid

On further research you can find more suitable keywords, above is just an example

Builld quality inbound and outbound links for keywords (Vancouver Art Show, Vancouver Art prints, Vancouver Galleries) as anchor text, you can see better result

Also config your website to G webmaster tool, so that you can know the status http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

If you need pro results, you need to hire a SEO pro ;)

Good Luck
Jag

[Neilbwd]

Thanks for your input, beu. The site is absent from all Google search results, regardless of whether its .com or .ca, and I have no paid links.
The problem doesn't seem to be about the usual SEO issues, since Google crawls the site every 2 or 3 weeks and reports no problems in that regard. The problem is that the 288 content -rich pages it has in its index are somehow being prevented from making it into Google search results, regardless of the search words used.

[Neilbwd]

Thank you, Jag. I have use Google Webmaster Tools constantly, and as I mentioned to beu, Google is not having any problem crawling and indexing the site. It was crawled and indexed last week, in fact. And I do have a page rank of 3, so lack of page rank can't be the problem. The problem is that the fully crawled, indexed and cached and ranked pages Google has in its data base do not make it into Google's search results at all.

[Marcia]

Neil, linking to wholinks2me.com is really not a good idea at all.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS237US237&q=site%3awholinks2me%2ecom

That's the first thing, and you might want to move the huge Javascript to an external file.

[Neilbwd]

Hi Marcia

I'm not sure where you found such a link. To my knowledge, I have no links to the website you mentioned.

[Neilbwd]

The javascript is for the slideshow on the home page, and would be pointless anywhere else. I'm not sure how I could move it to another file and still have it appear in the same place. Also, it has only been there for about a month, maybe six weeks. The site has been absent from search results much longer than that, so how could the javascript be the cause of the problem?

[Marcia]

Hi Marcia

I'm not sure where you found such a link. To my knowledge, I have no links to the website you mentioned.The links on your homepage that a spider sees:

http://'+this.theimages[picindex][1]+'/
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%205%20Maud%20Lewis.htm
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%205%20Maud%20Lewis.htm
http://Poster%20Offer.htm/
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%203/Ed%203%20Front%20Page.htm
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%203/Ed%203%20Front%20Page.htm
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%203/Ed%203%20Gustav%20Klimt%20 page%20A.htm
http://Upload%20AHC/8-Post%20Modern/AHC%208%20Post%20Modern.htm
http://Artist%20Main%20Pages%201-50/AA%20Opening%20Page.htm
http://How%20to%20Exhibit.htm/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080424.A
RTBANKING24/TPStory/National
http://Artist%20Main%20Pages%201-50/AMP%2022.htm
http://www.westbridge-fineart.com/
http://www.members.shaw.ca/artbywendy/news.htm
http://www.members.shaw.ca/artbywendy/news.htm
http://www.saanich.ca/cgi-bin/calendar.pl?month=5&view=
Month&event_id=294&view=Event&event_id=312&datestring=20080504
http://www.coldbentglass.com/
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/i
ndex_e.jsp
http://www.RubinoffSculpturePark.org/
http://www.heffel.com/
http://www.rjhf.com/
http://www.silkpurse.ca/
http://www.BCPotters.com/
http://www.silkpurse.ca/
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%204%20Stuckism%20.htm
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%204%20Stuckism%20.htm
http://Collectors%20Exchange.htm/
http://Upload%20Magazine/Edition%202/Ed%202%20Pieter%20Breu
ghel%20page.htm
http://www.wholinks2me.com/
http://www.statcounter.com/

[Marcia]

From Google's Quality Guidelines for Webmasters (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&topic=8522):

Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

[Neilbwd]

Wow! I don't remember ever putting such a link on my home page, but I'll certainly find it and remove it. Thanks Marcia.