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Results On Google & DMOZ

• I neede to find information on my search results within Google & DMOZ. First of all my site was just added (I think yesterday) to the google directory (from DMOZ) under http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/New_Jersey/Localities/A/Allenhurst/Business_and_Economy/ (my store is HeavenlyTreasures.com) Why dont I show up as a search result in the directory - is it that maybe google needs to update it? Also, for over 2 years now I've been the #1 search term result on google for the keyword "Heavenly Treasures" for some reason this last google dance moved me from position 1 to # 82 & that's not even to my homepage. Part of the problem might be that for some reason now when you check the "link to" on my site now (from this most recent update only) - put in the URL http://www.heavenlytreasures.com & then click the "..web pages that link to..." you'll see the results list ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=link:CUTtrsbw3XIC:www.qksrv.net/click-1231823-9915697 & note the address is a www.qksrv.com address which links to a affilliate program I have with Commission Junction - why does it hijack my result. To go one step further if you search for "Fine Jewelry" I show up on the 3rd page 7th position down under the "hijacked" link. Before the update my site used to show up (I think it was on the 4th page though). I hope the new addition to DMOZ might bring back my better results but I guess I wont know until the next update. I know this might be confusing but please take it one step at a time & let me know if you need me to explain.

• Answer:

  Hi mades32388 ~ Please understand that Google Answers Researchers are not employees of Google and we are not privy the the workings of the Google search engine rankings. Google closely guards its search algorithms, so it would be hard to give you a specific reason for your site's particular fluctuations. I can, however, offer some educated guesses and make some suggestions. As you may know, the Googlebot does a massive crawl every 4 to 6 weeks, indexing the entire web. During this time Website page rankings and search results often change, even from one moment to the next. Fluctuations in search results rankings can occur for any number of reasons and are the subject of a lot of speculation and research by webmasters. 1. You asked, "Why dont I show up as a search result in the directory - is it that maybe google needs to update it?". Your guess is probably right. If you just got listed, it will take some time to show up in the directory. Google explains in its Page rank information - ://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html "We update our index every four weeks. Each time we update our database of web pages, our index invariably shifts: We find new sites, we lose some sites, and sites ranking may change. Your rank naturally will be affected by changes in the ranking of other sites." Google recommends, "You may want to check and see if the number of other sites linking to your URL has changed. This is the single biggest factor in determining what sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl the web and jump from page to page via hyperlinks. To find out who links to your site, use Google's link: tool." In its Webmaster Information page - ://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html Google also states in No. 1, Changes from one index to the next: "It's also possible your rank decreased because other sites were found and assigned a higher rank." And finally, it could merely be a technical glitch. ================== 2. You stated, "for some reason now when you check the "link to" on my site now ... " I used Google's link to tool, typing both "link:http://www.heavenlytreasures.com" and "link:www.heavenlytreasures.com", and in both cases your site came up first, listing: - www.heavenlytreasures.com/earrings-diamond.html and - www.heavenlytreasures.com/privacy.html The link you posted above (://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=link:CUTtrsbw3XIC:www.qksrv.net/click-1231823-9915697) did not return on even the first page of returns. If you have listed your business with Commission Junction, however, it would not be unusual to find a link to your site through Commission Junction's listings, as that is how they list the information for their own tracking purposes. See Commission Junction's FAQ's regarding their tracking: "How does Commission Junction track leads and sales on the Web?" - http://www.cj.com/faq/corporate.jsp#10 Your main page (index.html) probably wouldn't be listed in Google's link tool, because that lists pages linked TO your website. =================== 3. You stated/asked, "To go one step further if you search for "Fine Jewelry" I show up on the 3rd page 7th position down under the "hijacked" link. Before the update my site used to show up (I think it was on the 4th page though). I hope the new addition to DMOZ might bring back my better results but I guess I wont know until the next update." Note that the categories you have chosen and under which you are listed in DMOZ, namely: - Regional > North America > United States > New Jersey > Counties > Monmouth > Business and Economy and - Regional > North America > United States > New Jersey > Business and Economy are entirely different than the search terms you are looking at in Google, namely: "Fine Jewelry" While the DMOZ listings do not hurt you, neither will they help much with a ranking under "fine jewelry". If you want your DMOZ listing to help for the search term "fine jewelry", you should list your site under that category in DMOZ. ================== 4. Coding Problems In the first link under its technical guidelines - ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html - Google says, "... If fancy features such as Javascript, ... keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site." Using Lynx to look at your coding, there are some errors in the javascript in your headers. Specifically, your header seems to include a table, and does not validate with W3C standards or other validators. This would makes it very hard to index your site. Information on the W3C validation service can be found here: - http://validator.w3.org/ And there is no doctype declaration on your pages, - http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html Both of these would tend to produce erroneous information or information which one of the specific Google robots may not be able to index properly. ========================= Recommendations: 1. Per Google's recommendations, download the Lynx browser and use it to see what the Google robot is basically seeing to list. Download sites for the Lynx browser can be found here: - http://www.trill-home.com/lynx/sources.html 2. Make sure your page meets as many of Google's guidelines as possible. Google's guidelines are at: - ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html 3. Use the validation tools of W3C as listed above and your document type declarations in order to assure browsers and robots are seeing what you want them to see. 4. There is an excellent information page on search engines and search engine rankings by one of the Internet's foremost Search Engine experts, Danny Sullivan. This is Search Engine Watch, - http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ Search Engine Watch has information, news, and other helpful hints to help you maintain a good page ranking in the search engines. Whether or not you subscribe, using the site for informational purposes can and will help you with your rankings. Using the suggestions above, including the information available in Search Engine Watch, will help not only your Google search engine rankings, but your rankings in other search engines with which you are listed. I hope the above addresses your concerns and that you'll soon be on a more comfortable footing! Warm regards, Serenata