I recently built a website for a friend. If I search for the company name, then the site itself shows 3rd, below threads from forums which link to it. (the site itself is the second link in my sig under 'my sites' - I'm hoping this thread won't go to #1 as a search result for it...) The site itself has a higher page ranking than the threads. The site also has 2 listings on DMOZ, and a few other stray sites link to it. Do I just need to wait for google to update a few more times (it has reindexed since the last update, though the google directory hasn't), or have I done something that I'm being penalised for? The only thing I can think of that I have changed is I originally had accessibility 'skip links' options with a class of hide, so I removed them just in case, but surely google wouldn't penalise a site for being accessible? Or is there something else?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,
Dave
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Jump to Postodds are your base authority level may not be that high if you only have links from a few sites. perhaps building more linkage data from a wide variety of sites will help improve your rankings
Jump to Post>If you have a business site, is there an acceptable way to implement link swaps? e.g. it would look a bit odd to dump stray links to a directory or other site on there, and a links page would also look odd. Is there an accepted way to do it?
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Jump to PostWorth thinking about...
Bear in mind that a lot of forums, blogs, networking websites get a heavier weighting from google simply because they get updated so frequently that they get indexed by google more regularly than normal websites. So I think it would be a good idea to remove …
Jump to PostAs a quick note it's probably a good idea to use Blogger.com as they're owned by google, I think it those blogs get a heavier weighting
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