Comments on: Ask Kirsty – Why Doesn’t Google Love My Site?

By: Eamon

Eamon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:27:13 +0000

Useful tips. And I would certainly focus on the content one, in particular – this has helped me the most – and reading as much you can about the subject, and around the subject, that you are an expert in).

By: Stephane

Stephane — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:30:35 +0000

And while this have nothing to do with SEO or SERP, be careful with that VW logo at the top. You may want to make sure you have the right use it like this.

By: Jez

Jez — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:41:32 +0000

Google has been sandboxing a lot of ebay afilliate sites lately, dropping some from the index all together.

I think you would be better off putting content up front with prominent links, maybe banners pointing into your ebay listings, conversion rates may drop… but if you dont have any traffic then that wont be an issue!

Hypenated domains should be avoided as they are a signal of low quality, in future avoid them.

That said, you can (I have) ranked three hyphen spammy looking domains.

If it were me I would just move the content up front and go on a link building spree…

By: Jamie Carruthers

Jamie Carruthers — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:39:56 +0000

Site Explorer shows one in-bound link (https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fvw-tdi-for-sale.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u)

Without any decent links, no amount of on-site SEO will get you ranking.

The domain appears quite spammy which could hurt your ability to get the handful of decent directory links you need to see some decent rankings.

Some directories I would submit to include: Go Guides, JoeAnt, Best of the Web, Yahoo! Directory.

Don’t go and add to hundreds of free directories though. Generally a waste of time and will give you a similar backlink profile to some of the spammier sites on the web.