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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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How to Handle a Google Penalty
Last week, I interviewed the head of Google’s spam team, Matt Cutts, about a lot of different issues. One of the most intriguing towebmasters appears to have been the discussion in the 2nd video (around 6:00) where we go into a chat about the real estate industry online, where thousands of websites have recently lost rankings due to participation in egregious manipulation through reciprocal link campaigns. During the chat, I referred to this thread at RealEstateWebmasters(14 pages and 132 replies) discussing the “shot across the bow” that Matt’s team fired in mid-May. Obviously, that site has long recommended link exchanges as a way to get ranks, and honestly, it’s hard to find fault with their advice since until just recently, the tactics were very effective. Here’s how it usually works in the real estate website … Read entire article »
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Is there a Google penalty for promoting your websites on Twitter or Social Media Sites?
Traffic on these websites have dropped off immediately after I started promoting them on Twitter. Bestnewarticles.com has some original content on the ‘exclusive articles’ page and free-psychic-help.com has all original content. Both sites have been online for almost a year. Thanks. 1 person says this answers the question: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356 “Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the buzzing blogger community can be an excellent place to generate interest.” … Read entire article »
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