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Duplicate Content and Inbound Links
Does your site has substantial duplicate content across pages within and outside of your domain? It is possible you have more than one indexed version of your home page. To spot this, take a sample phrase (one sentence is enough) and copy and paste it into a Yahoo or Google search box. Put quotation marks around it to emphasize that you are making an exact query. Example : “This is my first experience with site building and I hope my instructor gives me a good grade” It is possible that you have more than one result for this. If you do, it means that you have a duplicate content issue. You should consider blocking those duplicates or 301 redirecting them to your canonical home page. You can, however, check the percentage of similarity for those pages with respect to your … Read entire article »
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Google penalty duplicate content
Duplicate content penalty. Ever heard of it? This penalty is applied by Google and possibly other search engines when content found on your website is largely the same as what is found elsewhere on your site or on other websites across the internet. Search engine spam has been common ever since search engines were first invented. Search engine spam describes the practice of making changes to your website that gets you listed high in search engines at the expense of readability by humans. Years ago, you could get ranked high on a search term simply by repeating it as many times as possible in a document. The primitive search engines of the past ranked the importance of a keyword simply by counting the number of times a term appeared on a page. Today’s search … Read entire article »
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Why google penalty?
New Google Penalty? June 7th, 2009 Once again, the tales of a dreaded Google penalty are making the rounds – this time a whopping 50 spot drop in rankings has been observed, which anomaly in Google’s results could indeed indicate a new Google penalty. Several webmasters have reported that their websites lost top positions on Google and have plummeted to position 50 and below. Confusion reigns, as the normal metrics shows that the websites have not changed substantially – in one case, the website was older than two years, the inbound links did not change and the Google PageRank in Google’s toolbar did not change (although we know the toolbar is notoriously inaccurate at times and slow to update). Yet another website was older than 10 years, yet it too was penalized. In … Read entire article »
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Reasons why your website could be penalized or banned by google
Banned websites will not rank for their own keywords, but they will not be indexed at all. So if your site is out of index then your website is banned. Reasons why your website could be penalized or banned by google? Cloaking – It is bad, don’t do it. Cloaking is basically when a reader see some other page and search engines see another thing. Duplicate Content – Duplicate content on multiple pages. Keyword Stuffing – When you stuff insane amount of keywords on your pages. Buying Links – Buying links from irrelevant sites will get you in trouble. Linking to Bad Sites – Any site that is not related to your niche is a bad site. Hidden Text / Links – Sometimes free theme designers do this. Theyadd links to the site and make it no display, … Read entire article »
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Reason of Google penalty and how to find it
heck the following in your Google webmaster tools: Dashboard — Overview. If the Googlebot has problems accessing your home page, it will return a message like the following: “Googlebot cannot access your home page because it is blocked by robots.txt.” In this case, you need to remove the robots.txt in your web server root directory and submit a re-consideration request to Google. You can read more about submitting reconsideration requests here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843 Also, you should go to your home page and view the source. You should NOT see this code: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”> This code tells Google not to index your home page, and, at the same time, not to follow the links in your navigation menu. If you see this, then remove it and submit a reconsideration request. b. If the above test turns … Read entire article »
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