90% Drop in Site Traffic
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@sathyasaimemories
If you want your content to rank well in Google then start creating unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet and be sure that over 65% of every post’s content regardless of format (text, audio, video, images) is original, not duplicated.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/01/25/12-tips-for-improving-search-queries-ranking-position/ -
We are sorting the problem ourselves..Deleting post is a problem for google, as we have found out tonight. My husband is working hard to put the blog right again by doing the necessary work suggested by google .. (Must say, there are other problems that need sorting.) All of which are technical… and nothing to do with my blog topics… I am tired and not in any way wanting to continue with the conversation. thanks again…
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TIMETHIEF. Thank you for your pointers regarding duplicate material. Occasionally I like to go back over Articles that have been written 90 days ago or longer, where some of the text is updated, changed, to some extent.
Question, in doing so does this then place the updated article in the back of the line in search results…?
Jim.Wilson, FAU4U, Boca Raton, FL.
Adjunct Faculty, FAU.If you want your content to rank well in Google then start creating unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet and be sure that over 65% of every post’s content regardless of format (text, audio, video, images) is original, not duplicated.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/01/25/12-tips-for-improving-search-queries-ranking-position/
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@TT & @RC are the masters at SEO – but
go back over Articles that have been written 90 days ago or longer, where some of the text is updated, changed, to some extent.
Question, in doing so does this then place the updated article in the back of the line in search results…?
Editing an article should not hurt anything, I edit articles for instance when I find an error in them or a link has changed – just part of the natural good practices keeping your site accurate and proving good stuff for your readers. Other times I will write an article the supersedes and older article – I will not delete the older article but I will put a note and a link at the top of the old article that there is a new updated and better article available here
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Let’s put it this way: there is no possibility whatsoever that editing a post like that will HELP its search engine rankings. If the change is substantial, you’re better off SEO-wise making a new post which links to the old one saying “I’ve found some more info about THIS and …” etc.
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@RC – I fine tune my writing from time to time – usually only a few words, clear up some confusion on a how to do something, other times I have added up to maybe two or three sentences of new material to a Post –
Would that hurt much if any?
I did update one Post a bunch (your suggestion on what to do) (and the new Post is better to read and does search better) but I wrote a whole new Post, then referenced the new Post at the old Post – but both have a link to the same printer friendly PDF page
I do have one Page that was an index of sorts that I have gotten behind on adding new Posts to it – it was on the top menu – so to stop from confusing people I just took it out of the menu but left it up so there would not be a 404 error – you can get to it but you need a direct link – did not want to have the page not found problem like I did when I moved here from a .ORG install that had used the default permalinks for a while – how I got something like 700+ 404 errors with Google on a site with only 100 articles on it I will never understand – took over 18 months for the errors to sort of go away – sucked actually
Thanks
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Hi to all again, :)
When my searches began to drop in June/July, I shut my blog down. My husband told me to re-open the blog and with the help of google webmaster, he technically repaired my blog. It was a mess.. I had deleted many posts but had not deleted the tags.. (A no, no for google). I also had many posts that google did not like, he also repaired those posts too. I have deleted more posts this week, including the tags associated with them. People are only beginning to find the blog again. Although I might add that this is a small blog and I am NOT looking for numbers.. I only want to be seen by those people interested in my subject matter. Because I had closed my blog down, only “die hards” readers are finding me at the moment, but we are in google and we satisfy their Panda requirements… thanks so much…
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My traffic’s dropping again… now back down to the low it was at before after returning to normal.
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