Why Does Google Hate My Site?

  • My site is fairly new but, it’s been live for at least a month and a half.

    I believe I have more related content than most (if not all) of the other sites that are trying to get to the top of google for my keywords (BTW–there aren’t very many at all).

    I had an error 302 which I believe caused a “WARNINGS” notice to appear in my google webmaster tools under “Sitemaps”. After LOTS of tinkering, a post asking for help and zero answers, I deactivated my permalinks migration plug-in and that appeared to fix that problem.

    I found a site called https://domaintools.com and checked my site against my “competitors”. My site had a higher % title relevancy, a 100% description relevancy (higher than all my competitors), a higher % SEO score, more than 30 X the amount of terms, and more links than any of the others.

    I’ve read hours and hours of content about SEO and followed the tips/directions the best I could but, I have to be missing something.

    There was a day that my site was on the front page of google. It was there for a day and I was ecstatic.

    It disappeared the next day. Now, why is my main site consistently stuck between the 4th and 6th pages of google? What’s missing or what’s there that’s screwing me up?

    Somehow, many people are reaching my articles by searching for terms I’m not really trying to be found for. For example: If you search for “Gee Brain, what are we going to do tonight?”, one of my pages show up in the first page of google.

    I know it sounds like it but, I’m really NOT ranting. I’m on a mission for answers. I’m working at this EVERY SINGLE DAY until I reach my goals.

    I would be very appreciative if someone would be willing to help out this hard working noob.

    Thank you so much…

    Aloha,

    Chris

    https://myfitnesswithchris.com

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  • You would probably benefit more by asking this on an SEO forum. Here are a few things to think about:

    If you have been doing a lot of reading, you know about PageRank. This is a Google measure of how important the rest of the Web thinks your site is. Each link to your site is a “vote” for your site. Looking at my Google Toolbar for your site, you have a zero out of 10, so that needs improvement, which will take time and work. 90 days really isn’t all that long for this.

    When I go to Google and do site: https://www.myfitnesswithchris.com, I see all of the pages that Google indexed on your site. Pretty much all of your article pages are listed as similar, which generally means that Google thinks that the content on all of them is so similar, it does not think any of them are all that important. I’m not saying your articles aren’t good, it’s just what Googlebot thinks it found.

    Google does not hate anyone. It doesn’t like anyone either. The variable results you get could be results from different Google data centers.

    This forum can give a bad impression of SEO professionals, because we have to deal with the hackers all the time. These are the so-called “black hat” guys. It needs to be said that there are “white hat” SEO’s who are honest people. If you really want top ranking consistently, you might think about getting some help.

    Best of luck.

    Thread Starter ranessirhc

    (@ranessirhc)

    Thank you for your response.

    “Google thinks that the content on all of them is so similar, it does not think any of them are all that important.”

    I don’t really know how would I fix something like this. I would think that most blog posts from the same author talk about related/similar topics, like how mine does.

    The articles are there for whoever comes across them. However, my main goal is to get people to my site when they search for my keywords.

    Is the fact that my blog is my landing page bad for my ranking? I thought it was good…

    The only option I could think of would be to continue to power my site with wordpress and move my blog somewhere in another directory or to a free wordpress.com blog and link to it?

    I’m still working on incoming links. I’ve placed my link on various sites like citysearch, local, etc. Do those not help at all?

    I would like to note that some other top ranked sites for my keywords have zero links and yet they place on the first page, ahead of me. Hence, I figured this was a contributor to my low ranking, but not the reason.

    Once again, thank you for your response. I’ll try an SEO forum too.

    Some other top ranked sites for your keywords might not be playing by the rules. You can complain to Google if they are really black hat, but you had better have excellent proof.

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