As I could not find out the exact reason for the drop of your search
position (part b of my answer) I post this as a comment and not as an
answer (so you will not be charged for this)
Maybe one of my colleauges with more experience can be of more help for you:
a) The missing date
You should not worry about the missing date. These dates are only
displayed for a few days when your pages have been re-indexed very
recently by the googlebot.
You can test if the googlebot has recently visited you webpage by several methods:
- check the logfiles on your webserver, the visit of the googlebot
will be shown there.
-if php is available on your page you could try to use the excellent
google bot activity script to check the visits of the googlebot. The
script is freeware and available through:
( http://www.webscriptsdirectory.com/PHP/Web-Traffic-Log-Analysis/CJ-GoogleBot-Activity-L919/
)
This scripts logs specifically the visits and indexing begavior of the
googlebot. You may check a demo of the script at:
( http://www.cj-design.com/downloads/googlebotactivity/demo/ )
b) Your drop in the google search results
I really understand that dropping in googleīs serach results is
frustrating, but itīs very hard to keep a "Number One" position
forever in the search results.
Do you have to google toolbar installed in your browser ?
If not please intsall it if you want to follow ir check the
information I give out now:
The google toolbar
( http://toolbar.google.com/ )
With the toolbar installed you will get very important infortmation on
the pages found in google search results: The pagerank of a page is
the most important point to sort the output of a google search;
"The heart of our software is PageRank?, a system for ranking web
pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford
University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve
every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide
the basis for all of our web search tools.
PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using
its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote,
by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume
of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that
casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important"
weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages
mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google
combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find
pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes
far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines
all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages
linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query. "
( ://www.google.com/technology/ )
If other pages have a higher pagerank (i.e. as they have more links
pointing to them) they will be displayed before your page in the
search results.
I checked some of the pages listed before you and could not find out
why they appear before your entry as several of them have the same
pagerank as your page.
So I pass this on to another google answers researcher who could maybe
find out the exact reason.
till-ga |
