We have 2 websites www.internet-casinos-247.com and
www.sunset-casinos.com . Sunset was optimized last year by a
professional seo company who charged me a huge amount of money (and
monthly maintanence fees). Consequently we had a bad experience with
them (felt we had been totally ripped off)in regard to the amount of
work that they had done.  www.internet-casinos-247.com is a more
recent project and although we have paid for the pages to be optimized
with another seo company, site map, meta things and submission etc, (I
have to say at a very reasonable cost and will definately use them
again).  After 3 months we were delighted to find that
www.internet-casinos-247.com was getting first page listings on major
search engines (#4 on google for keyword 'genuine casinos'and #1 on
every other search engine). Even more staggering was that we were
reaching great rankings for our most competitive keywords.  Now, what
happened next was that 247 disapeared off google, then yahoo and msn
etc.  Now www.sunset-casinos.com seems to have taken its place
(further down the listings I have to add)for the same keywords. The
content for both sites are quite similar (although not on the home
page).  Also I have been adding one way links to
www.internet-casinos-247.com and have been linking to sites on first
page rankings for my particular keywords.  Also Internet casinos 247
is no longer being cached everyday.  Hopefully you can provide me with
some answers.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 24 Jul 2005 13:46 PDT

Dear  zipadydooda, 

Google Answers Researchers are not Google employees. If you'd like to
check something specific regarding Google, I recommend that you'll do
it through their contact page:
<://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html> 

If you need, however, advice regarding your site (and in general,
explanations based on research - not on "inside information" - on how
to optimise the placement of your site in search engines), I am sure
that I - or one of my colleagues - can provide a good answer to that.

It is simply because you use the same meta tags more than 3 times. the
words 'casino' and 'casinos' appear more than 3 times each on your
pages, they should not appear more than 3 times. Also, please check
for duplicate content. If your sites contain the same sentences, this
will be penalised by google.

Hope it all goes well.

Dear Razormedia,

Thanks for the comment...I'll certainly look into it, very helpful!

Cheers

Dear politicalguro,
Thanks, I shall do as you advise,
Cheers