Hello,

I have problems with Google ranks with some of my sites.
They are quite old (3 years or more) and there are not "sandbox"
problems.

First, my domain ***xx.it , where ***xx is an Italian common word:
it used to rank #1 (!!!) in Google search for the same keyword (***xx).
Now it is #392!

What happened? I read somewhere that I must not write the domain name
at the beginning of the title and/or at the beginning of the page or
whatever. This may be the reason why ranking has dropped so much but...
I have other 2 italian sites with a similar situation (domain = common
name, that is at the beginning of the title and so on), and they still
rank #1 (!!!) and #4.

Then I have a domain in English, ***xx-yyyyy-zzzzz.com
and the title of the homepage is exactly "***xx yyyyy zzzzz",
and the homepage begins with the same words.
If I search "***xx yyyyy zzzzz", ranking is #786 !!! (Absurd!).
I just changed the title (but it still contains the words yyyyy and
zzzzz somewhere) and I am waiting for better positioning...

However, I have another site in English, with a non-popular English
word in the domain: zzzzz.org . The title of the homepage begins with
zzzzz (+ other words) and the homepage either begins like that.
However, the site ranks #7 (total results: around 600,000)! So I am not
doing wrong with this site, but I don't understand why!

Thanks for any help

Giancarlo


Please let me know what I am doing wrong.