Can anyone help??

betterbargains4u

Switched my website over to 110mb.com about 4 weeks ago now and lost my original tag line that was pulling in a lot of customers off Google. It was worded "The UK's most competitive chocolate fountain hire service."
My site was ranked really quite highly on Google (if you just typed in..chocolate fountain) it came up on the second page, about half way down, which was fantastic.
We noticed about the same time that the tag line dissapeared off Google, the email and telephone enquiries just stopped.
I thought maybe it was because the wedding season is coming to an end, but when I checked Google last night....we have dissapeared!!! I trawled through the first 20 pages..putting in..chocolate fountain..chocolate fountains..chocolate fountains hire..chocolate fountain hire....nothing!!
I then typed in The UK's most competitive chocolate fountain hire service and ny website is still there and the tag line has re-appeared, but no-one is going to search using that phrase!!
I don't know what has happened, but this could be the death of my business. Can anyone help??
I know that your site climbs the pages with more popularity, so if I just continually click on my website page, will this help??
I suppose I'm just clutching at straws though!!!

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I thought that the position relates to the number of other websites with links to it. And as you've changed your name this will have a significant effect.

betterbargains4u

grahawk wrote: »

I thought that the position relates to the number of other websites with links to it. And as you've changed your name this will have a significant effect.

The name hasn't changed at all!!
The website has been up and running for nearly two years with the same content, name etc. None of the links have changed either.
I know for definate that if you typed in chocolate fountain into Google I was half way down the second page, last week.
Like I said, tried again a couple of nights ago and I am not even in the first 20 pages!!

mdean

betterbargains4u wrote: »

The website has been up and running for nearly two years with the same content, name etc. None of the links have changed either.

This maybe your problem - i am not an expert but the search engines value websites that change their content. I would write some more stories which include the words chocolate fountain- eg staff at bloggs and co love the chocolate at their party.

Also every page on your site has the same title tag - which produces the text in the blue line at the top of the browser- this does not help with google.

So your packages page could have a title "chocolate fountain packages from £249" this would link it to your search term of chocolate fountains - but also genuinely reflects the content.

For bigger websites the Content management system handles that - but you could do by hand - I think.

Given you previous high ranking google will probably find you better over time
cheers

custardy

have you thought of paying for a sponsered link on google to raise your sites hits?

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When I found your website it came up as http://chocolatefountainshire.110mb.com/ which is why I assumed the name had changed - thats the result you get doing the "UK's most competitive chocolate fountain hire service" search. I assume this is your site as it's the same provider.

bingo_bango

A couple of things to mention here.

The 'Hosting' service you have signed up to seem to have given you a subdomain rather than your own domain account. (although they give the option to host your own account?? perhaps you've picked the wrong option, or the subdomain option is the free one?)

I assume that with your last host the address showed up as hxxp://www.chocolatefountainshire.com (.co.uk)? Now you are hxxp://chocolatefountainshire.110mb.com.
This won't help you, as Google et al aren't as interested in listing sub-domains. Spiders will crawl the 110mb.com site and you'll show up as a sub-domain in their sitemap (assuming they've bothered with one!)

Also, as you've moved hosts, you will have new name servers. Unless you've told the search engines that you've moved to these new servers (resubmitting the site may be enough to do this), then it'll take them about 6 weeks to 'see' your site again. They then have to refind all the links to your site. This may help with pagerank, but I believe it is becoming less important for google rankings these days.

There is no magic answer to get you back up the rankings. The best suggestion I have is that you:

1. Sign up to a few of the SEO forums about. There's a ton of up to date info available form some very friendly people about how to increase your rankings.

2. Look at your main competitors using the same search terms. See what they have done with their site that makes it stand out over yours. Don't plagiarise their content, but do learn from it.

HTH

bingo_bango

I've just had a quick look at your site actually.

The full hxxp://www.chocolatefountainshire.co.uk is working, but it's a frame redirect from the 110mb.com site.
This means your links are showing up as hxxp://chocolatefountainshire.110mb.com/packages.html which is VERY unprofessional looking. It just makes the site seem cheap.

I would honestly consider moving to paid for hosting. You can get it very cheaply (I pay £30 per annum to host my sites, and that's for five separate sites), and you would have the advantage of having the option to set up email from the site (you currently have a link. the spam bots love these, as they crawl the net looking for email addys to spam). I can send you a small .php script that will allow you to have a form on your site, which sends mail to an inbox that you specify. This means that clients don't have to have an email client (e.g. Outlook Express) setup on their PC, which is what happens if they click on your link now. Also, the email that the form is sent to is hidden, so the spam bots/clients don't get to see it.

You should also work on your keywords. First thing to do is separate 'chocolate fountain' as 'chocolate, fountain'. Also add the word 'hire' And I would consider adding keynames of towns/cities in your area. Helps when clients enter localised search terms.
Enter as many keywords as you can think of. Better to have some that never get a hit, than loads that might get hits, but aren't there.

Pm me if you want the php script and instructions, or if you want to know anything else. I may not answer for a day or two though.

Tyro_2

My site is hosted on 110.com and works well - your site works ok with my Firefox but not in Internet Explorer. I cannot find you line of text "The UK's most competitive chocolate fountain hire service" on your page at all. you must have left it off.
You need to check you browser compatibility, what did you use to write your webpage. ?

Tyro