I usually have some success getting my site to show up in google, but my recent site which I created about 6 months ago does not show up in google hardly at all.
My site is called www.starwarshq.com and even when I type in search terms “Star Wars HQ”, “StarWarsHQ”, and “Star Wars Headquarters” it is nowhere to be found.
Am I doing something wrong?
I am using Joomla 3.0 as my CMS since it allows me to add the components and modules that my community needs.
Any ideas or advice? Do you see anything wrong when you view my site?
You have a lot of competition out there, and will have to make sure there’s something unique about your site to make it stand out from all the other Star Wars sites out there. There are many pages with the keywords/domains “Star Wars HQ”, so you have a steep mountain to climb following that path.
How come those are in the search results yet my primary domain starwarshq.com is not in there?
It still seems like there is something I am doing wrong with StarWarsHQ.com that I am missing or there is a major flaw in its design somewhere that I am possibly uneducated on.
If you signup to google webmastertools it will show you if there is malware present on your website. Google webmastertools is also good for other things to do with your website check them out.
There seems to be a popular misconception that Google now penalises all “exact match” domains. This isn’t the case. Many such domains are poor quality and engage in keyword stuffing and other such techniques to try to manipulate ranking; keywords in the domain is just one aspect of this. It is these poor quality sites which may be affected, not all such domains indiscriminately.
Okay, so when I go to google webmaster tools, this is the link that is being reported: [noparse]www.starwarshq[/noparse][DOT]com/libraries/compat/geeedoc/Gmail.com/index.html
I removed this link completely, reported it removed to google, yet my site is still showing hacked. How can I be sure that this is not the only area hacked on my site? I have no idea how this happened. I upgraded my Joomla 3.0 to a new version and all software has been updated.
This really sucks and is hurting my site big time.
Best way to be sure, as far as I’m aware, is to delete everything and upload a clean copy. Failing that, you can run - or ask your hosts to run - a maldet scan.
Also, change all the passwords for your site (admin, ftp, the lot) and make sure the new ones you set are strong.
There is a detailed post by dklynn about recovering from a hack over in the Web Security forum:
If you are making an upgrade you are NOT removing all old files from the server.
So for example if you have a malicious script residing somewhere in some folder on your server, after upgrading it will still be there
Run a website analysis for your website, where it advices you what is missing in seo. Your website has lots of images, optimise for images, add descriptive alt image tags, title tags, meta tags should have specific characters, check for broken links. after doing all the changes. submit the xml sitemap to webmasters tool…all this will definitely show you some results.
It has been established that there is a particular problem with the OP’s site. General SEO tips are not helpful or relevant here. Please confine replies to the actual issue.
