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Problem with Google Rankings.

by Misch.Chief
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Hi all,

Someone called me the other day wanted advice for their site. Their site was ranked for a selection of keywords throughout the site (all low competition) and they paid a web company a small amount of money to help them get better rankings.

However...you get what you pay for...and this company added the following tags to their top level pages:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="VW96.OBJECT TYPE" CONTENT="Document">
<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow">
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="7 days">

Now I understand what the bottom 2 mean, but not the top 2 - what are the top 2 tags?

Once this web company added the tags my friend complained that his rankings depleted and he lost all his rankings; his pages are still all 'listed' in Google though, so it's not sandboxed.

On top of this he uses Google webmaster tools and has submitted a sitemap.xml file there.

My guess on what happened is that somehow these tags have confused the spiders and has meant the site is not gettiong ranked for its keywords - has anybody else got any ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Misch
#google #problem #rankings
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Misch,

    They should ask for their money back. Those tags show they know almost nothing about SEO.

    The revisit after tag was never supported by any major search engine. It was created by a small regional search engine, and even they, now consider it obsolete.

    The other tag they created VW96 (as in 1996) was used by their bot that only crawled websites located in the Canadian Providence of British Columbia. Hmm... maybe they rank well in the Vancouver Webpages searchBC.

    seoconsultants.com has an interesting article about the revisit tag.

    The rating tag is used for suitablity for kids.

    HTH
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave_Kelly
    Wow, that reminds me of so many phone calls I received from people seeking help in my 8 years of doing SEO for a living.. I'm not blaming the site owners at all, but the fact that anyone or any company would sell complete crap such as that to people who are legitimately looking for real help. and pass it off as SEO, is shameful.. It's been done for years and I guess the know nothing scammers are still out there taking advantage.

    Don's explanation of the details is dead on. (If my memory is)

    Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author sekarbuffett
    good informative one thankyou very much
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