a little advice needed for seo

[patchak]

Hi,

Me and a friend launched a test-site last year to verify different seo techniques. The site is based on ODP data feed, it is a video games niche portal. The thing is the site has grown very well during the last yeat period going up to 8000 visits per day in its best days for more than 30 000 pages views.

Suddenly, we started some little link exchange with a couple of sites, and the site dissapeared from google, msn and yahoo... All in a couple of months time period. We still have a little traffic but it got down to 2000 uniques per day,which are most direct hits...

How can our site disappear like that from the 3 major search engines?? Can someone give us some pointers, we're thinnking about closing the site, so maybe someone could check it out, and point the mistakes we've done??

Thanks: here is the url: free-online-games-link.com

Thanks again

[David Wallace]

Maybe you linked to some sites you shouldn't have? Have you verified that all the sites that you are linking to are in the indices of Google, Yahoo and/or MSN? That would probably be a good place to start. If you find that you have linked to another site that is not in any of these indices for one reason or another, you might want to remove that link.

Also many of these link exchange deals are not a good thing. You typically get sites in there that one shouldn't be linking to anyway. The common sense approach when linking to other sites should be, "link only to a site that is going to provide a good resource for your own visitors and not to just gain some PR or link popularity benefit."

[telNform]

You are gone from Google, you have 24,000 pages indexed currently

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-39,GGLD:en&q=site%3Awww%2Efree%2Donline%2Dgames%2Dlink%2Ecom

I would look into some of the content you are displaying ... it appears to be duplicated across the net (just from the 2 samples I searched for). Additionally, write some unique content to feed to the engines ... they love it

telNforrm
Scott

[patchak]

Hi, thanks for the answer!

What do you mean exactly when you say that the content seems to be duplicated accross the net? You mean that we are not the only page displaying the same content? In that case the engines would consider our site useless and remove it from the serps even if sometimes it is well optimized? Do you think there would be a way to optimise those pages better so they could climb up the serps again? And also isin't it strange that all the major search engines get our pages off the results at the same time? For certain words we were in the top 10 and the suddenly we dissapeared from the results, while all the other sites in competition remained!

Thanks again

[azhariqbal]

I was wondered when i saw COST PER CLICK policy in site match program of overture. Overture has PRECISION MATCH for bidding/CPC, so why they are charging COST PER CLICK in simple search engine submission (SITE MATCH), please somebody help me i am waiting for a quick reply as my all SE packages will be well affected by this news "OVERTURE IS CHARGING COST PER CLICK IN SITE MATCH" i need SEO GURU (you guys) to help me urgently?????

[ferret77]

if you site WAS ranked in yahoo and/or msn

they both have had major changes in the past 6 months