I did what I asked you to do.
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I did what I asked you to do.
Those are the 448 URLs from your website that have been filtered.
You should find garbage in them like shown below.
Have you done what I have suggested three times above? Do that if you want to identify the problem pages.
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I don't know. You should ask someone who knows a lot about canonicalization.
Did you drill down through all of those indexed pages to see if you can identify all of them?
I've suggested it twice.
Apparently infitter24.rssing.com/chan-13023009/all is poaching my content, taking my original content and adding it to there site. I am not quiet sure what to do about that.
You can have an attorney demand that they stop, you can file DMCA complaints. Be careful
**However it does not explain the sudden appearance of the 175 pages on Googles index **
Do this query: site:www.nyc-officespace-leader.com
Start drilling down the SERPs. One page at a time. Look for content that you didn't make. Look for duplicates.
Get a spreadsheet that has all of your URLs. Drill down through the SERPs checking every one of them. Can you account for your pagination. You have a lot of it and that type of page is usually rubbish in the index. Combine, canonicalize, or get rid of them.
Do this query: site:www.nyc-officespace-leader.com
Start drilling down the SERPs. One page at a time. Look for content that you didn't make. Look for duplicates.
When you drill down about 44 pages you will find this...
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 440 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
The bad stuff is usually behind that link. Google doesn't want to show that stuff to people. It could be thin, it could be duplicate, it could be spammy, they just might not like it.
Possible problems that I see....
I see dupe content like this and this. Either your guys are grabbin' somebodyelse's content or they are grabbin' yours. Can get you in trouble with Panda. You need original and unique. Anything that is not original and unique should be deleted, noindexed or rewritten.
A lot of these pages are really skimpy. Think content can get you into trouble with Panda. Anything that is skimpy should be deleted, noindexed or beefed up.
I see multiple links to tags on lots of these posts. That can cause duplicate content problems.
The tag pages are paginated with just a few pages on each. These can generate extra pages that are low value, suck up your linkjuice or compound duplicate content problems.
You have archive pages, and category pages and more pagination problems.
Wow. Thanks for the update. I'd like to see a WhiteBoard friday about this after its sorted out with graphics on how DDoS are carried out and how they are deflected. And, how you know its happening to you.
These guys must be pissants if they are only asking for a few hundred bucks. Would be funny to see Mr Skinner point at the camera and say... "We didn't pay-off a $200 pissant and we will not pay you."
Use the title for something better, something more descriptive (wow just think of all that extra space!).
Absolutely. I don't have space in my title tags for the domain. They are going to see the domain below the title in most search engine SERPs.
If I had a site like that I would eliminate the individual ad pages and have much longer-tail ad categories. Then the category pages would each have multiple ads, most recent at the top, and expiring ads at the bottom.
That puts much more substantive content on every page of the site, more potential keyword matches per page, more ranking power per page.
No, I rarely think about DA/PA. I just make content and toss it up. See what happens.
The site above has a DA of 79 and the homepage has a PA of 82.
But, things work the same on another site that I run. It has a DA of 27 and a homepage PA of 37. It competes in an easier sleepier niche but articles on that site start deep and climb slowly over time.
I really like this question. My answer is YES!
When I publish a new article and link it into my site it generally starts off very very deep in the SERPs. Too deep to pull big traffic for its primary keywords.... but because my articles are usually quite long (500 to 2000 words) with diverse terminology they do pull in some traffic for long tail keywords.
So, they start deep in the SERPs and then, over time, they V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y climb the SERPs.
As an example, a little over a year ago, I published a new article targeting a keyword with a Moz difficulty of about 48%. That article started deep in the SERPs at about position #150. It hung there for a few weeks and then month by month it moved up a few places. About nine months later it was on the first page, and now about a year and a half later it ranks at #2 or #3.
For about three months it received fewer than ten visitors per day from the SERPs. At the same time it received only about twenty visitors per day from my internal traffic. Six months later it was receiving about 40 visitors per day from the SERPs and now it is receiving about 80 per day.
I did zero linkbuilding for this article. Just tossed it up and went to work on other things. So far it has attracted about six very good links and a lot of spam links. Not much. It has about 152 facebook likes, a dozen tweets but a lot of action for the photos on Pinterest.
In my opinion, the article is a good one, it has a number of nice professionally done photos and a few good external references, so people who click into it stay. I think that google through Chrome and SERP clickthroughs and backbuttons can determine if people respond well to the article and use that data to influence its rankings.
Most of the aritles that I write behave this way. A lot of them make the first page of google for keywords of similar difficulty, but before I write them I make sure that I am going to produce an article that deserves first page - or I don't write it. A few have been disappointments. I have one written at about the same time as the one above that seems to be stuck about three or four pages down in the SERPs, but it is about a subject that has a lot of contamination in the SERPs - such as Java (programming language, coffee, island, and assorted stuff).
So, yes, if you are seeing your content climb then you might be doing something right that you can scale over time.
Grab a unique string of about 20 words from the page and search for it between quotes. Your page content may have been scraped and republished on other websites.
Your first words are "Custom Fabricator" which causes me some friction - This sounds like you might be b2b. Do you sell stuff direct to customers?
Thank you, Doug. This is exactly what bothered me too. I did think they were b2b from those words.
First, I am surprised that the CTR is so low because of your top ranking. My goal with that would be to change the title tag and description tag to match the query as closely as possible and to elicit clicks.
If this was my site I would change the title tag to match the query.... and to elicit clicks.
I don't know your business so I am going to guess.
<title>Granite Countertops: Prompt Installation in St. Louis area</title>
They will see the name of your business in your domain.
Then I would change the description tag. Study the adwords guys. They have great descriptions...
Over 100 colors, Fast, expert installation, Affordable countertops and replacements. Tell them what they are looking for that you can deliver.
What are the reasons? I need help with detailed solutions.
If you want carefully considered ideas, please share your domain. Guesses will be a waste of everyone's time.